Simple: Idle 15 minutes or so, /afk.

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fooraide

Dalayan Adventurer
I am not sure if this is somehow client restricted or anything. (PS Don't give me any of "THIS IS NOT LIVE" shit. thanks.)

On live, if you didnt move for say, 15 minutes or so you were automatically put /afk.

Good idea? Bad idea?
We will know when people randomly go AFK on raids, in groups, and well.. If they don't touch their keyboard for 15+ minutes, they're away from keyboard? :)

It's just a small feature that I feel is not NECESSARY but would be nice to have!
discuss.
 
Not sure just how useful it'd be...

Some people don't move because they don't have to. They're tradeskilling, chatting, waiting on a spawn... Not AFK.

At other times, you're just not moving (or maybe even not chatting) just because there's nothing to do. I haven't raided yet on SoD but on Live, it was not terribly unusual to sit down and basically do nothing while waiting for rezzes to be done, or late people arriving, or the pullers trying to split some mobs...

Basically, people being put automatically on afk serves no purpose, IMHO. At worst, it'll get people chastised by group/raid leaders for "randomly going AFK" while they were sitting there all the time but were simply not taking any action.
 
That's why I mentionned "not even chatting". I just don't think the advantages (if there are any) outweight the potential misunderstandings resulting from being flagged AFK while you aren't.
 
I don't really see the need. If you're going AFK, just type /afk. Maybe I'm not aware of the situations that this could be useful, but even in an emergency, it's only 4 keystrokes to let everyone know that you're not at the computer.
 
Maybe because uhhh... hardly ANYONE actually takes the time to turn AFK on.
 
I don't see the reason for it TBH...if you send somebody two tells in the span of 5 minutes and they don't reply its pretty simple to tell that they're AFK...or they don't like you. Why spend time messing around with unneeded crap when more pressing issues are at hand...
 
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