Guild Wars 2

Hi,

Not anybody will agree with me, but hey… real life is more important than a game, right? There are times you have to go away from keyboard at once, because the baby is crying, or any other good reason.

Or there are times you put yourself AFK in what you think is a safe zone. Sure you can log off, but there are times you do not even have time to do so…

And, when this time arises, you can be in big trouble… imagine… you thought it was a safe zone, and it was not. So monsters are coming, and you died. Right, not a big hassle, you just damages one of your equipment. But then someone comes, revives you, and leave. As you’re still afk, you die again. Someone revives you again. You dies again… and so on, and so on… and soon you’re naked (which is offensive for the eyes, especially if you’re playing a female charr ^^), and it will cost you a lot to repair your stuff.

So, my suggestion would be… than when someone revives you, at the end of the revive process, you do not automatically revive, but you have a popup asking you to click the revive button to finish the reviving process. And you do not revive before you press this button.

This way you can revive only when you’re back in front of the keyboard…

Thanks

I suggest finding a safe place and not going afk in stupid places.

You cannot always do that. Hey if the baby is crying, if you’re very hurry to go to toilets, and so on, you do not always have time to find such a place.

Moreover you can think you’re in a safe place, and suddenly an event pops where you are…

I guess you’re quite young, or you do not have a husband/wife or children. When a real life event occurs, you have to handle it at the second, you cannot wait a few minutes to find a safe place…

Then log out and return to game after you’re done [cut].

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You do not always want to do that as well, if for instance you’re in a chat with someone, and you’re waiting for his answer.

There is another reason as well for reviving confirmation, if you’re in the middle of a dangerous place, not afk, but you died, you want to go to a teleport point instead of reviving there but people are reviving you and you have no time teleporting with the map before you’re revived… Paf you’re dead again.

A few weeks ago I had a guardian asura, and I revived someone. Seems this one was afk, so I stayed there acting as her bodyguard, waiting for her to come back. I stayed there 10 minutes. She thanked me after that. Because as a pure hearted guardian, I feel a responsability when I revive someone, and I want to be sure this one is out of harm…

Reviving someone and leaving, letting the revived one dying again, is egoist

So I guess, TJV, that you never ever went afk at any place outside a capital town? Because, you know, no place is safe outside of capital town. You can think somewhere is safe, and be wrong because of an event or anything like that…

Both of my points still stand. Find a safe place or go offline. Afk in a dangerous area is stupid regardless of situation. You always have enough time to log out.

Last day I was grouped with someone, waiting for him to come to me. He was tracking me on the map, cannot log out without quitting the group.

So I guess, TJV, you never ever went afk outside capital town? As you know, there’s no safe place outside capital town… I saw someone died at a teleport point one day. Even teleport points are not safe. I’m sure this guy thought this place was safe. But you can never knows what will happen, perhaps an event will spawn, or someone chased by monster will come by and you’ll be killed by those monsters…

Hey a few days ago my daughter just jumped on me. I was unable to reach the keyboard and mouse anymore, so was even unable to log off ^^

Hall of Monuments portal stone is a great way to get in a safe AFK spot. It’s free, you don’t have to logout, it teleports you to a safe place and teleports you back right there where you were when you are back.

This thing:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hall_of_Monuments_Portal_Stone

Of course that does not help the situation when you are unable to even touch your computer anymore, but helps if you have few seconds to prepare for your afk.

Oh thanks I’ll try to find one, as I did not get it at character creation. I have linked my GW1 account though, and I had the eye of the north extension.
I have not put anything in the GW1 hall of monuments though. I have not finished GW1…

I agree this is a good idea for thought….. Life does get in the way from time to time for people with one (and they are just as important as those without)…….. Other games have this feature so I don’t see why GW’s couldn’t too the other thing it would help with is when a Champion or Legendary is standing over you and you res only to die again immediately….. and again and again….. confirmation would allow for you to wait for the enemy to be pulled from your postion….

One thing I would like to confirm with hithlain is that revival confirmation is when your dead and not downed right……. downed I dont think is worth it…. but dead yes

hithlain.4385 it does you no good to attack people you disagree with and makes you look like a troll . I personally know of several safe spots in the open world even in level 80 areas so yes they exist .

There was only ever 1 time i wasn’t able to get to a safe spot or log out in time for something and that’s when i had a seizure so i really dont see the need for this . In the end it really doesn’t matter anyway cause even at level 80 repairs aren’t exactly gonna cost ya an arm and a leg .

Its not so hard to teleport yourself to the heart of the mists from virtually ANY spot of the map, even WVW and then get you back to that same spot.
Are you botting?

Ameepa.6793:

Hall of Monuments portal stone is a great way to get in a safe AFK spot. It’s free, you don’t have to logout, it teleports you to a safe place and teleports you back right there where you were when you are back.

This thing:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hall_of_Monuments_Portal_Stone

Of course that does not help the situation when you are unable to even touch your computer anymore, but helps if you have few seconds to prepare for your afk.

can get it from the 2nd tab at the karma vendor in the very NW cave in LA, and is free, dont even think you have to have a gw1 account at all, but yeah as Ravenmoon said you can port to heart of the mists too for same effect really

Ravenmoon.5318:

Its not so hard to teleport yourself to the heart of the mists from virtually ANY spot of the map, even WVW and then get you back to that same spot.
Are you botting?

Do you get back to the same spot? I thought you only got to LA by going into Mists?

HoM Portal Stone sounds like best bet so far.

Rather than the confirmation box, maybe there could be a quick setting that you could enable to make yourself unrevivable?

E.g. you have to go AFK → click F11 for options then check ‘do not allow others to revive yourself’ and if someone comes along, they won’t get the Revive (F) option showing? Ofc, you’ve got to remember to disable it again, but seeing as you’re making the call, it’s ok that the responsibility is yours too?

Dondarrion.2748:

Ravenmoon.5318:

Its not so hard to teleport yourself to the heart of the mists from virtually ANY spot of the map, even WVW and then get you back to that same spot.
Are you botting?

Do you get back to the same spot? I thought you only got to LA by going into Mists?

HoM Portal Stone sounds like best bet so far.

Rather than the confirmation box, maybe there could be a quick setting that you could enable to make yourself unrevivable?

E.g. you have to go AFK -> click F11 for options then check ‘do not allow others to revive yourself’ and if someone comes along, they won’t get the Revive (F) option showing? Ofc, you’ve got to remember to disable it again, but seeing as you’re making the call, it’s ok that the responsibility is yours too?

yes if you go to the same window as you enter into the mist and press that same button (that now says “Leave the heart of the mists” you get back to where you were when you entered, if you use the portal in mist yes you go to LA)

Ravenmoon.5318:

Its not so hard to teleport yourself to the heart of the mists from virtually ANY spot of the map, even WVW and then get you back to that same spot.
Are you botting?

I didn’t ever know about this, as I never went into the mist, I’m not that interested into PvP right now in fact.

Someone made a good statement above as well… I remember against a troll, I died, someone revived me, and I died again as the troll was still on me ^^ This “click to revive” button could be useful as well for such situation, waiting for the monster to go a bit farther back before reviving.

ANet should add a new stance then for players in this “wait for revival” position, so other players will not jump to them trying to revive them without the possibility to do so…

About the “teleport somewhere safe”, I near never use the teleport feature, I prefer walking, as teleport is too expensive, and while walking I can find ore source or other things to do or watch… I only teleport when I’m dead, or when I’m in town, as it is free…

And about the botting accusation, certainly not. I’m more the kind of girl that likes to chat a lot while hunting, I take my time, and I never skips any video GW2 is so much beautiful…

This game is meant to feel like it’s always active and things are always going on. You can’t go afk in game like this and expect no downside. Even in safe towns or areas there are DEs that can pop up.

This could easily be abused anywhere. Say somebody revives you right as a WvW zerg is coming. So you just don’t click accept yet. You wait till they leave then Poof! Revived!

What about a mesmer? If the enemy is about to take your area, jump off a really high place and kill yourself, have a friend revive you but don’t accept yet. Wait till they take the dungeon then leave. Accept the revive and go portals your friends back in.

Good intentions, but bad idea.

As someone who has a pretty active RL I found that alt+f4 works pretty much instantly. If you have an SSD, booting the game doesn’t take long either.

Ameepa.6793:

Hall of Monuments portal stone is a great way to get in a safe AFK spot. It’s free, you don’t have to logout, it teleports you to a safe place and teleports you back right there where you were when you are back.

This thing:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hall_of_Monuments_Portal_Stone

Of course that does not help the situation when you are unable to even touch your computer anymore, but helps if you have few seconds to prepare for your afk.

That or just accept defeat. If you got kids, and they clearly are more important than a game, you shouldn’t be worried about what happens to your toon. Just sayin…

You should not go AFK at all.

If you could op-out from revival in persistent maps, people who may have risked their kitten to revive you may find out that you won’t revive at all.
Why would you revive anyone you find around and risk being killed by that champion when they may not revive at all?
But if you revive on the spot, if you are AFK they can at least use you as a distraction to run away.

And during combat, you will have one second of immunity upon revival. That’s more than enough time to dodge and get to a safe place.
Endurance and healing skills WILL recover while you are defeated if there’s only one person reviving you, and if there’s more than one person, you won’t be at risk so much.

Get used to go back to character selection or to the Hall of Monuments when you are going to be AFK, even if it’s just “brb”. You won’t leave a party when you do that, and you’ll be able to go back right away to where you were, unless you were in PvP and WvW. And you REALLY should NOT go AFK in PvP and WvW. You’ll be using an slot a player that would actually play could use.

Here’s your options:
F12→ Character select. Takes less than a second.
Open inventorty → Use Hall of Monuments portal stone. May take longer, but you can leave as soon as the loading screen appears, and you won’t log out, so you’ll get chat lines while you are AFK.
WvW or PvP →Try to join again later. You should not be AFK there for any amount of time, for any reason, you’ll get killed and waste a slot someone else could be using.

As for the heart of the mists, I don’t think you can use it like the HoM to travel the and go back. Your character will stay there when you log out, unlike places like WvW, the hall of monuments, dungeons and other instances that will kick you out back to where you were when you log out.

everybody is so smart i don’t know if i am even worthy of saying anything here but i will risk it: and why not?

Having the confirm at the end of the revive feels like it could be abused (primarily in PVP). Rather turn off reviving at some point before someone tries to revive you.

I thought they said that if the game simply closes (like using alt-F4) it keeps you in-game for like 15-30 seconds, long enough die if you’re in a sticky situation, so it can’t be abused to avoid death?

Would still work if you need to leave your computer really quickly and aren’t in any danger at the time I guess.

Also, instead of hitting F11 and having to click Log Out then Char Select, you can just hit F12 then Char select (yes only saves one click, but it’s a small shortcut and if you have a lot of screenspace it can save a lot of mouse travel)

My idea has been to create a guild with the tag [AFK] and hope people notice. For those times when I’ve died and decide to go get a drink or something while safely dead.

It’s funny but there are some waypoints where if you go afk at them you’ll die. I know because I warped to waypoints and sometimes saw a dead player there. So I revived them thinking I was doing a favour, but later came back to see them dead again.

Im sorry but some of you people really don’t get having kids at all…. and I think some of you should NEVER have any to make the world a better place…….

Answer these in a way that allows you to close the game down in a hurry…. A child walks into the room carrying a snake thats getting a little upset at being carried…. what should I do close my game down or run for my kid…..

A kid walks up a hallway and starts to throw up….. Close the game or get to the kid….

Now for those who can’t answer these correctly please go apologise to your parents….. You must have caused them great grief

Might make a nice option for players to choose for themselves to toggle.

You don’t have time to log out? Really? all you have to do is press f12 and character select. That takes what? 5 seconds? I’m sure the world isn’t going to end if you do something 5 seconds later.

Anyway on to the OP. If they did they should make it optional, I don’t want to click to click accept every time someone revives me, or what if you click decline by mistake then what happens? You’ll have to pay for WP fee because of a little mistake

ok if say the baby is crying…as all babys cry then you can simply map out to la…you still in the game u can read the chats and ur safe…if u dont have time for a 3 sec click then you are just lazy and if your gone so long that you get revived and killed so many times that your armor breaks then you obviously forgot you were still in the game…but they already fixed this problem cause if your afk long enough your automatically booted so if there was anychance of u getting naked before the boot it would have to happen like this:

the baby crys, u leave in mid battle, because u dont have time to run to a safe place or map out. you die by the hands of the monster and then some nice person kills the monster and revives you. now there are no more monsters around you untill another spawns or a patrol comes. say that person who revived u leaves and a patrol comes and kills you again….then somehow another person revives you after killing the enemy patrol, then they have to leave ur area and then the original monster respawns and kills you again….this is all in about 5 mins of time, you then have now damaged 1 peice of armor costing u about 50 copper to repair…say this happens all over again without the players sticking around and u go afk for the full 10 mins you will have dmged maybe 3 peices of your armor and now u are auto logged off aka kicked by anet because u were afk to long….now you are complaining beacues you chose to leave the game in the middle of battle….

what did u expect to happen do you think you should be awarded to leave in the middle of battle? to not have to pay for reapairs since u diserted the fight or ur group members? do you think its fair to not have to pay for repairs when other people who are active and die have to?

No stop this nonsence play the game and deal with the consequence of leaving during the battle. if you dont like it …tough you should spend the 3 secs to map out or spend 1 sec to press the red [X] button on the top right of your window.

TJV.6239:

Both of my points still stand. Find a safe place or go offline. Afk in a dangerous area is stupid regardless of situation. You always have enough time to log out.

Neither of your points stand, mainly because of your attitude about it.

It would be nice if you had a WP invincibility after you move there that lasts until you actually take an action with your character but this may not be viable when certain WPs are always under attack. I think the “Revive Now” option is a great idea and it surely would help but I would hope that it would not be used in a way by players to somehow skip mobs or anything.

Firebird Gomer.9563:

Im sorry but some of you people really don’t get having kids at all…. and I think some of you should NEVER have any to make the world a better place…….

Answer these in a way that allows you to close the game down in a hurry…. A child walks into the room carrying a snake thats getting a little upset at being carried…. what should I do close my game down or run for my kid…..

A kid walks up a hallway and starts to throw up….. Close the game or get to the kid….

Now for those who can’t answer these correctly please go apologise to your parents….. You must have caused them great grief

LOL love the snake one I am sure the people arguing against this don’t have kids and probably can apologise to their parents because chances are they are still living with them.

Firebird Gomer.9563:

Im sorry but some of you people really don’t get having kids at all…. and I think some of you should NEVER have any to make the world a better place…….

Answer these in a way that allows you to close the game down in a hurry…. A child walks into the room carrying a snake thats getting a little upset at being carried…. what should I do close my game down or run for my kid…..

A kid walks up a hallway and starts to throw up….. Close the game or get to the kid….

Now for those who can’t answer these correctly please go apologise to your parents….. You must have caused them great grief

ok…
so then why are u complaining if u cant take the 1 sec to close the game then u already know that its going to cost u 1-2silver for the interuption of your kid in repairs, but you should know this you had the kids, u chose to have the kids right… you knew they will be interupting ur game time. so why should u be penelized for a kid emergency…well ur notu made the kids its your responcibility to take care of them…and 1-2 silver is nothing in this game..its like finding a nickel on the ground…

seriously u can kill 1 or 2 monsters in 15 secs and make your money right back in the game… you seriously need to clear your head if your going to be a gamer. learn how the money system works in the game before u complain about loss of money…

also…i bet you would have enough time if you were looking at a lewd site and your kid came into the room unanounced to be able to close the window so they couldnt see the horse and the girl. but hay im just saying you need to be a bit smarter with your complaints theres nothing wrong with the system as is no one want an annoying pop up or mistakenly hit the no and not get revived also that would efect some of the skills in the game with reviving would the bonuses or boons be applied if u dont get fully rezed does the other person get the exp if u dont get rezed……whatever im done with this it will never happen not even as an option it will effect to many skills and players and the backlash would be immense on anet if they make your suggestion a reality.

Firebird Gomer.9563:

A child walks into the room carrying a snake thats getting a little upset at being carried…. what should I do close my game down or run for my kid…..
you realize that the kid has probably been carrying that snake for the past hour so what will 1 more sec do? since you were to busy with the game to notice that poor lil jonny picked up the snake an hour ago.

A kid walks up a hallway and starts to throw up….. Close the game or get to the kid…. well just cause your there in a flash doesnt mean the kid is going to stop throwing up a second later…its still going to fall on the carpet a second later and the kid is still going to be sick, stop making up excuses, because if this is your second child you would have already known this.

hithlain.4385:

I guess you’re quite young, or you do not have a husband/wife or children. When a real life event occurs, you have to handle it at the second, you cannot wait a few minutes to find a safe place…

i guess you arent smart enough to figure out it only takes 1 second to close out the game or 3 secs to map out to a city…so if it takes u a few mins to get to a safe place you need to rethink your strategy…also if you have kids and they are near when you are playing a game watching a movie…doing dishes whatever…you should have a contigency plan, say your 5 year old has a stroke what should you do…leave game mid battle and not complain about a fantasy death and take your kid to the hospital… or leave your game mid battle take your kid to hospitle then complain like a 4 yr old that you had to repair your gear do to an emergency.

seriously if u have kids around you should have a plan like holding the remote close so u can pause the tv/movie. know how to leave the game so your character doesnt die…that is if u actually care if your fantasy character dies and have to spend fake money and kill fantasy monsters to regain the fake money you lost in 15 secs of play time.

I like the idea, but it can be exploited very easily. Say you are in a hard kitten dungeon, you revive one guy but he waits because we unecessarily pulled too many mobs at once. So he waits while the rest of the team gets slaughtered. Once the mob returns to their original starting point, he accepts the revive and pop’s up and revives everyone else.

So if you were to implement this, it would have to have like a 5-10 sec acceptance timer on it before it went away.

"""About the “teleport somewhere safe”, I near never use the teleport feature, I prefer walking, as teleport is too expensive, and while walking I can find ore source or other things to do or watch… I only teleport when I’m dead, or when I’m in town, as it is free…"""

um its free to teleport to the mists or wvw and its a free way to get to la without paying to go to a LA waypoint…and the way points are not that expensive unless all you do is go from point to point. 2 lvl 80 greens sold to the merchant will cover your one waypoint fee…so kill a couple enemies between jumps tada easy fix.

Seriously? Tell me, all the people who are asking the OP why he can’t just do X, what is the downside of adding this feature? Almost none of you given ACTUAL reasons, besides, ‘why don’t you just do X instead?’ Give reasons why such a system should not be put in place, don’t start by just saying well you can do this instead. With that line of reasoning, nothing would ever get improved, because hey, we have horses, we don’t need cars!

And for those talking about ‘exploiting’ such a system, WoW has this same system, and I have yet to hear anyone complain about ‘res confirmation exploiting’.

Incredibly funny thread. If it’s that much of an emergency alt+F4, simple. At most it might cost you 1s, I haven’t tested it in pve environment after the change. As for someone’s talking to you? Say it was an emergency, and had to leave in middle of a fight. It’s same thing afking for few hour because you had something to do(to die that many times). You reallly think someone will talk to an afk person for hours..? You’re going to die if you leave immediately anyways, why not just quit?

Seriously? Tell me, all the people who are asking the OP why he can’t just do X, what is the downside of adding this feature? Almost none of you given ACTUAL reasons, besides, ‘why don’t you just do X instead?’ Give reasons why such a system should not be put in place, don’t start by just saying well you can do this instead. With that line of reasoning, nothing would ever get improved, because hey, we have horses, we don’t need cars!

People gave pretty good reasons. Just because you’re focused on pve perspective doesn’t mean everyone only thinks about pve. It will be a big issue in the wvw. Plus, you want anet to waste time on this instead of fixing all the tooltips and improving the game? I guess pressing alt+F4 is too much of a hassel, because pressing 2 buttons is too much work. In that line of reasoning, future shop needs a giant red button device that presses alt+F4 for your daily needs. (sounds fun honestly)

And for those talking about ‘exploiting’ such a system, WoW has this same system, and I have yet to hear anyone complain about ‘res confirmation exploiting’.

Never played WoW, but does it have class that can portal 20 people into a keep that is vital defensive point in a wvw? Please inform yourself little more before talking people down. Just because it’s tested in that game (with diff mechanic) doesn’t mean it works here.

PS. I feel like this is a troll thread

DeadlyDohnut.7052:

…and 1-2 silver is nothing in this game..its like finding a nickel on the ground…

seriously u can kill 1 or 2 monsters in 15 secs and make your money right back in the game… you seriously need to clear your head if your going to be a gamer. learn how the money system works in the game before u complain about loss of money…

Trash mobs drop that much coin now do they? A wise man once said “learn how the money system works in the game before u complain about loss of money…”

Ameepa.6793:

Hall of Monuments portal stone is a great way to get in a safe AFK spot. It’s free, you don’t have to logout, it teleports you to a safe place and teleports you back right there where you were when you are back.

You not even need that item: Open sPvP, choose to go to the Mist and you are save
if you choose to got back in the sPvP you land where you started.

It’s free as well.

Turial.1293:

DeadlyDohnut.7052:

…and 1-2 silver is nothing in this game..its like finding a nickel on the ground…

seriously u can kill 1 or 2 monsters in 15 secs and make your money right back in the game… you seriously need to clear your head if your going to be a gamer. learn how the money system works in the game before u complain about loss of money…

Trash mobs drop that much coin now do they? A wise man once said “learn how the money system works in the game before u complain about loss of money…”

It’s really not hard to get 2s, yes you could get lucky and easily get 2s from 2 mobs…

Mobs, perhaps, if they all dropped 50c each or so (and even that is not true), this guy stated monsters. Coin is not hard to make but that is not the point here and he is going off topic.

Turial.1293:

Mobs, perhaps, if they all dropped 50c each or so (and even that is not true), this guy stated monsters. Coin is not hard to make but that is not the point here and he is going off topic.

I’m sure when he says “monsters” that he means mobs.. and just because that mob might not drop 50c doesn’t mean you can’t loot let’s say an exotic that could sell for 5g+. So yes, it is completely possible to get 2s from 2 kills.

The original post was someone who wanted to grant someone else permission before getting rez’d. I’m against this. If I’m defeated, I don’t want to have to click a button before I can be brought back. If I’m trying to help, I don’t want to wait for the person to tell me it’s okay.

All of the issues regarding this can be solved with existing tools.

• Find a safe spot.
• If you can’t find a safe spot, [F12] to remove your character from the area. People can still PM you. If you need someone to find you on the map, use a personal way point.
• If you really, really, really feel the need to be “in the game” while you aren’t playing, then [F12] and switch characters.

Or course stuff happens in real life that causes you to have to leave the game. If you don’t have the 25 seconds to do the above, then you have bigger issues than needing to spend 15s to repair your armor and back piece.

Sorry mate, this suggestion is bad one, actually that would break many things because in pvp or pve every second count, so i don’t want to stand there in poison or under any condition to wait for some1 to replay and get revive … it’s just 1 more thing that would make people annoyed…

If u have to go afk instantly, turn to any direction u think it will be less mobs, and press R, you will run in some direction with bit of luck u will survive, if not that’s your own problem + repairing gear is not even so expensive … people normally waste more silver for WP than gear repair … and idk what you are doing.. gear don’t get broke just so… you would have to be afk minimum 5 hours and i bet in that time you would be able to go and logout.. if not than you are just lazy… and we can’t support u at that. Babys don’t need 5 hours attention in 1 strike.

this is silly, sorry, but it’s silly. truth? if you alt-F4, you’re out instantly. yes, life does interfere with gaming — IF i am called from the computer while out-and-about in the world? i accept that i’m PROBABLY gonna come back dead or, if i’m gone THAT long, naked.

those cases? i alt-F4.

as for the mists, for those who don’t know: the first time you go into the mists, you’ll need to run a map-course to get to the portal that takes you into lion’s arch. AFTER that, on your account, not character, you can instantly go into the mists, walk a few yards, and be in lion’s arch without paying waypoint fees. as for returning to where you are? i dunno that that’s possible, i’ve never found a way to do it.

but if i have to be called away from my computer? i’ll take the time to run back to where i am. you put a toggle like you’re talking about in the game, folk will just stop attempting to rez. i like rezzing folk, i like knowing some friendly person’s gonna happen by and rez me. this is the game.

Not opposed to the OP’s idea per se, but honestly with all the alternatives available, I’d say even if this idea was adopted it should be very far down on the priority list. There are so many other bugs and features to be fixed or added that are higher priority. So even though this idea is interesting, I’d say now stick with the Mists, HoM Portal, Logout, or Alt-F4.

Why not just let us indicate we are AFK ::
Alt+A : Sets a string after your name in Red
Balderstrom [AFK]

The AFK notifier is cleared when you press a key, or move (mouse), and no one is ABLE to revive/res you while you are AFK.

Not another annoying popup please. Open your chests and get repair canisters.

Firebird Gomer.9563:

Answer these in a way that allows you to close the game down in a hurry…. A child walks into the room carrying a snake thats getting a little upset at being carried…. what should I do close my game down or run for my kid…..

A kid walks up a hallway and starts to throw up….. Close the game or get to the kid….

Now for those who can’t answer these correctly please go apologise to your parents….. You must have caused them great grief

The only kind of example these are is examples of bad parenting . If your kid is throwing up its either because they got into a chemical or you under cooked their food both of which you should have a handle on . As far as the snake again if you DONT know your kid is walking around with a snake what does that say about you as a parent?

Good grief, there are plenty of other reasons the kid might be throwing up, and all of them are besides the point. Obviously you go straight to the kid, I’m not a parent myself but I know plenty of them, and I’m an observer by nature. Generally “the kids in trouble” over-rides pretty much everything, yes even to the point one might forget to hit Alt-F4 to avoid getting killed (or rez’d and rekilled), armchair parenting isn’t going to change that.

Now, as to the requested feature.
No one wants to have to approve every rez, so obviously that’s out. It could work as something you have to turn on so that you can’t be rez’d though, then it doesn’t interfere with normal gameplay/PvP.
Now, one of the most important parts of that, is that if that were turned on it cannot function where someone could rez you and you only have to hit a button to get up, that would be exploitable (people could play possum in say WvW, and since they’re technically dead, there’s nothing anyone could do till they stood up).
I know the most convenient thing would be to let someone rez you then hit that button when you get back so they don’t have to stick around, but people really would find a way to abuse that.

So if it was something you had to manually turn on, and prevented gaining health while on, then I don’t see any issue with it. At that point all it does is prevent someone who had to step away from the computer for whatever reason from being repeatedly rez’d and killed (I’ve seen people draw agro’d critters over to kill afk people, so don’t assume it’s always because they stood in the wrong place, some people will just find any way they can to grief others).

With those caveats in place, I’d say go for it.