Guild Wars 2

So, the idle kick timer...

Currently, it’s a little buggy, and a lot of annoying. I kinda get the point, you can’t just have people sitting afk on siege in WvW indefinitely. It would be very detrimental, and would promote sabotage. There are likely other areas of the game as well that would suffer from a lack of afk checking and removal. Does a person being idly logged in really negatively affect all areas of the game though?

Guild Wars 1 does not have an idle kick timer. I started playing a month after release of GW1, and I do not recall it ever having an anti-idle system in place. It did have some negative effects, and you guys added a suggestive timer to the game because some people don’t seem to understand that starvation and fatigue are lethal in excess. Other than two Koreans dying, the lack of the idle kick system didn’t really have a super detrimental effect. Although that was a tragic event, it’s not really your fault.

As it stands, sometimes the idle kick timer will boot me to login screen without any warning. Sometimes it doesn’t boot me for hours, sometimes it tries boots me every 20-30 minutes. By keeping the afk system in place, you are promoting people making bots to bypass such an asinine ’feature’, which is going to lead to a whole set of other problems. (e.g. the GW1 ’drunk bots’)

Personally, I like to play the game in a casual/serious style. I like being able to walk away for what is sometimes long periods of time, then return and play a few minutes, then sometimes play for longer periods. This kinda continues for 20ish hours daily. I do not like having to wait for load in screens to get back into the place I was just in. Also, the trading post acting like I’m not logged in until I completely close out the executable and reload it (which completely locks up my machine for 5-10 minutes each time) is a problem. Not to mention that when I’m trying to read chat and casually monitor the current state of the game as I work on other things, then being forced to stop my work to press ’w’ or being kicked out with no warning (which I have now had to do twice since I started writing this post)... it’s super annoying.

This is a pay to play game... as such, it would be nice if I could play what I paid for, ya know? Please can you guys start brainstorming how to alter the game to remove or address some of these issues? I really wouldn’t mind being kicked out of the home borderland on a timer, if it just sent me back to LA or something (though I prefer the queue issue is addressed instead). It would really help if I did not have to log back in, or reload the process, during each interval that the timer procs. I am inclined to believe others may agree with me concerning the afk timer needing to be addressed.

I would like to note, I love the game. It took me a bit to get into because I do not typically like to grind PvE, but I do really love the game. I feel you guys have done a great job, and I understand why it took so long and had so many setbacks. It was totally worth it.

P.S. - Thanks for adding the Flute. ^^

yeah one thing I would add to it – idle time kicker count chatting as being iddle – really once on the Sanctum Sprint I finished it as a second one and started to talk on whisper with the first player.
nevermind that we HAVE TO wait that 2 minutes to the end of timer, after half a minute of whispering I have comunicate that I have 10 second to resume active playing….

just….
lol.

> Guild Wars 1 does not have an idle kick timer.
You are comparing apples to Ferraris and trying to implicate that the Ferrari does not need seats because an apple has no seats!?

GW 1 did/does not need stuff like idle kick timer – there are only 2 kinds of areas: “outpost” and “not an outpost”.
In outposts you have no enemies (and enemies do not scale with number of players) -> idling players do not influence important stuff
All the other areas are instances. And you have neither a disadvantage by keeping a player nor an advantage by kicking someone. (Except that the lazy bum will not get any achievements/the loot – but the game is not harder and you could not get another player into the area to help you)

BTW: The IKT is not working in instances in GW2. So you can idle there as long as you want/until you ISP kicks you.

Things to improve:
Some kind of audio would be nice. E.g. every 10 seconds one beep from 55 secs (away from kick) to 25 secs, every 5 secs one “double beep” 20-10 and 9-0 every sec one beep… in case someone can not read the chat because a window is blocking it.

The IKT is quite nice except for things like Sanctum Sprint when you already finished the race. Had the problem too. But since there were players idling (in Sanctum Sprint, Dragonball Arena, …) to get the achievement: the IKT is needed!

Nalia Ironstar.5470:

Personally, I like to play the game in a casual/serious style. I like being able to walk away for what is sometimes long periods of time, then return and play a few minutes, then sometimes play for longer periods. This kinda continues for 20ish hours daily. I do not like having to wait for load in screens to get back into the place I was just in. Also, the trading post acting like I’m not logged in until I completely close out the executable and reload it (which completely locks up my machine for 5-10 minutes each time) is a problem. Not to mention that when I’m trying to read chat and casually monitor the current state of the game as I work on other things, then being forced to stop my work to press ‘w’ or being kicked out with no warning (which I have now had to do twice since I started writing this post)… it’s super annoying.

This is a joke, right?

The kick timers are different from PvE, WvW and PvP.

PvE timer is ~1h
WvW timer ~10 min (20 if not incorrect)
PvP timer is ~2min

Can you still put that auto loop on your heal skill, so it doesn’t count you as afk?