Disconnected because you didn't move
 

Hi,

I think this should be removed, it just brings down the playercount of some servers, making players not even log on in the first place.

Why not let the players just idle? Maybe then more people would be attracted to leave the Login server, even if it's just for idling.

Well, thats up to the individual servers really....obviously they dont want you idling...which is stupid anyways, because you know 70% of the playercount usually idles anyways...

But, its not like the servers are being forced to have it...

I don't see how you can use the argument that people not being allowed to idle on servers that have "Disconnect" enabled is the reason why the player count has dropped. If someone logs on and walks away from the computer for the next 10 hours, they might as well NOT be part of the player count. They're just a number in a statistic that is severely unbalanced in accuracy when trying to find out the statistic of how many people DO play.

I didn't say the player count dropped because of that, I said players don't log on servers because of that, example:

I go to my PC, log on Era and take a look at the player count:

"Damn, only 12 players, sucks!"

I log out again, because I know that I'll get disconnected anyways after 15 minutes, if I idle.

Now if I could just idle as much as I wanted, I'd stay logged in and idle. Eventually 3, 5, 10 even 20? other people would do the same. Seeing as the player count raises everyone starts playing...

Whether it was or wasn't meant to imply that the player count was down because of it, it's certainly doesn't change the rest of what I said. You logging on, seeing only 12 people, then logging off just means you're not going to play. Getting on, seeing 12 people, then leaving it idle does not improve the statistic in the slightest, nor raise it beyond what would then become an inaccurate statistic of an active player count at all.

As stated above, it's not like it can't be disabled/enabled in the first place, and 9 times out of 10, servers just prefer people did not idle around when every person on their server is partially their responsibility and just idling there in itself can become a concern.

Why would you want to log onto a server that only has idle players? Perhaps your server should be looking at how to retain players with its content.

it's not that hard to press a button every hour, and you can just log back on later, or, do something else in game while you wait for people to get on.

That'd odd, I was pretty certain your main account was banned for life on Era, as well as your other account (ban evasion).

Perhaps we'll have to start checking some things more closely ;)

Sometimes I find it annoying. I'll be writing a reply or two on a forum and when I check back to Graal, I find the "You have been disconnected" message. Sometimes I am idling just to get a PM back from a staff member or whatnot, being disconnected is very frustrating when that is the case.

On the flip side, Classic already has a huge problem with players idling (staff members and RCs inparticular). When you log into a server that has 15 people online, you'd expect atleast half to be responsive. Not on Classic. Disabling the auto disconnect would just make it worse. Players would see a server with 20-30 people online only to find that the majority of the server is 'AFK' forever. They'd leave and never come back.

This sounds familiar.

To be honest the "Disconnected because you didn't move" is fine.... it lasts a lot of time... sometimes even enough to eat and comeback to play.

There are other games that disconnects you if you dont move for like 40 secs so...o.o

Only time it's a problem is when you're a developer :/

Yeah, when you're busy with anything and someone pms you and you have no time and you get disconnected, you wouldn't know who it was :O

hi,

discussing bans on the forums is illegal, apperentially you haven't read the forum rules, now, have you?

oh and:

For the dumber ones under us ;)


Oh and how about editing that time? Making it longer?

I don't like the fact that even if you are answering pms, you will still get d/c for not moving. There are times when i would be answerign pm after pm and then get d/c and lose all the replies >:(

RC staff have more than the normal 15 minutes, I think. It's something like 30 minutes, though that can still be annoying, since I don't tend to move when I'm scripting.

I think it's a server decision whether or not to allow players to idle or not. Since I remember when Malinko removed the disconnecting after # of minutes on UN.

Malinko was just trying to make it look like UN had a lot of players on it so they would log onto UN instead of one of the other servers. Then we started getting complaints about people having false online time because of it so I made him put the disconnecting back on.

It also made it more difficult for the GP's to spot people using mining bots since 80% of the server was idling anyway. At one point it was changed so that rc's didn't disconnect for idling because of the whole development issue but somewhere along the line that seems to have changed.

You could always disable the default one and script your own that dictates its own rules and regulations on who is disconnected(serverwarped to login) and when, and what is considered 'not moving'.

He was very smart.

You might be the only person in history that'll use that word to describe him.

One time... I escaped from a hospital..

Did you know him? :noob:

Ok I'll rephrase:

His MOVE was very smart :D

Apparently neither have you. Dumb move.

Oh yea? Well, one time, I threatened a nurse with a razor I snuck into the hospital with me, then escaped!

I hate how sometimes I get an access violation when I get disconnected for not moving. that is so annoying.

Off Topic: Can we re-ban him? ^^

Topic: If a bunch of people just sit there and idle. Players start to stack and stack and thus that means lag! Also it isnt fair really for people applying for things. People who hire usually check out hours. If someone has cable. They can gain hours all day 'erday. If someone has dial up. Well; you get the point :p

if u disabl this u wil hav more playercount

ill disabl u corno!11!!

I vote for Yes.

But really, you should be disconnected for not moving in a certain amount of time. If not, we would have ALOT of idlers in many servers.

Didn't you say you don't care about your ET position at all?
Now that you're fired you've been crying 24/7? Haha.

Please close this thread btw. D:

Admins/mods shouldn't be closing thread on the thread creator's request. Just because they think a discussion is over doesn't mean they should end it. They don't own the discussion, the community does. They even have a day to delete the entire thread from the moment they make the first post.

Just because they don't like the way the thread is going doesn't mean they should be able to have it closed.

He's already banned for life, again, as of yesterday.

We all know you doctored that photo. I wouldn't imagine an ET stupid enough to take off their tag infront of a player, and that could of been an accident. Your banned for life again. Third time in a row.

Whats worse is, you kept messaging me saying that you didn't care since you already got passed the two past "Life time" bans.

Also, Chris is kinda right. Just because the problem will or will not be solved, the thread will always stay open for the community to discuss it some more. You just can't get rid of something and pretend it never happend.

can't you edit your first post and delete it?

Bragging rights because I have more hours than you on a server.
That's basically all you're asking for, right?

The logs showed he grabbed it, <3

Not before nor after I was banned I've ever received/sent a PM to you, what are you talking about, Mr. Igrabbedahackertrap.



Btw. Chirs, you are allowed to close threads in the Era Forums, because you don't like where it's going? haha

Horse?

There we go! Offtopicness!