Server afk kick feature coming
Zenu
Join Date: 2010-07-26 Member: 72861Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2010-07-26 Member: 72861Members, Reinforced - Shadow
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Agreed, this makes the most sense.
The system can be configured with 2 variables:
Time until kick - The number of seconds that a player is not moving or shooting before they are kicked. Using 0 will disable the system entirely.
How full the server is before the system is enabled - A number from 0 to 1 that indicates how full the server must be before the system is enabled.
As long as these are configured using reasonable values, I think the AFK system will work correctly. Of course, there may be some edge cases that we fix up over time but a few edge cases aren't a good enough reason not to implement something.
Sounds perfect to me. I'd cut it to 3 minutes personally (bathroom breaks are usually <2)... but 5 is also good.
You must be kidding, just quit the game.
So if you have 3 AFK players in the RR, it hurts the server due to inactivity in the end.
Not all of us live in tiny apartments bro. Door bell rings or you get a phone call well i guess your getting kicked. 5 mins is a joke just like you.
You're absolutely right. When my manservant tells me there's someone at the door it takes me atleast 2 minutes just to drive through the mansion with my dirt bike, then the obligatory 3 minutes of chatting with the supermodels (I only ever get visited by supermodels) before they go to wait for me in my bedroom, then another 2min drive back to my volcano lair AND I'M KICKED FROM THE SERVER WTF?!??
lmao I imagine the guy was being sarcastic or you just described his lifestyle. If it was my choice it would be 3 minutes before kick.
The entire point of a auto afk kick system is so you don't have 7 guys taking up slots that have been afk for a hour. Not to kick someone for taking a dump. 300 seconds is just stupid to be default. If your team cant pick up the slack while your gone then your team didn't have a chance anyways. + ever since release i have yet to play a good game. Even with my team mates playing it feels like there afk. NS2 isnt a game designed for pubs. It just doesn't work.
If your doorbell rings, go be polite you f**k!
We need a better game start pattern too, the afk thing is only 50% of the problem.
PS: If you are whining about 300 seconds, next game you play, DONT JOIN FOR 5 MINS. See how appreciative your team is for you being non existant for the first, vital 5 mins.
Oh wait, that wouldn't work, in order for you not to f up the start of the game (which this is all about, not you going for a 10 min smoke at the 40 min mark, no one cares about that methinks) it would have to be alot less than 5 mins.
But please, keep whining about 5 mins being to short, it helps identify *just who it* is that thinks their need to defacate is more pressing than 20 other people gaming experience.
Interestingly, I don't give a ######e about your ######e.
So if you have 3 AFK players in the RR, it hurts the server due to inactivity in the end.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's the reason for the server filled var.
I agree that players that afk in a game for more than 2 minutes need to be kicked though (1 is too short, maybe the guy is just camping), or make it one minute and then you get a visual warning on your screen telling you to move or be moved to the RR (afk in team = kick to RR). Then after being afk in the RR for over 5 minutes with an 80% full server gets you kicked (50% is too low, afk's in RR when server is only half full attract more players, since players look for fuller servers rather than emptier ones).
EDIT: Only kick to RR if the game has started, if there's only 1 person in the server don't kick them off a team just because they alt tabbed waiting for people.
If your doorbell rings, go be polite you f**k!
We need a better game start pattern too, the afk thing is only 50% of the problem.
PS: If you are whining about 300 seconds, next game you play, DONT JOIN FOR 5 MINS. See how appreciative your team is for you being non existant for the first, vital 5 mins.
Oh wait, that wouldn't work, in order for you not to f up the start of the game (which this is all about, not you going for a 10 min smoke at the 40 min mark, no one cares about that methinks) it would have to be alot less than 5 mins.
But please, keep whining about 5 mins being to short, it helps identify *just who it* is that thinks their need to defacate is more pressing than 20 other people gaming experience.
Interestingly, I don't give a ######e about your ######e.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Because being down one player at the start of the game for 5 mins is going to be what fcks up the start of the game. Knowing the skill level of this community I think not.