Inactive Player Disconnect

[angelsandair]

How about if you are "AFK" you cant do anything like you said.

And make it not affect the ENY. If you are in the air and inactive for lets say 20-35 minutes, it automatically makes you AFK. and when you return, you just re press the button.

[DaddyAck]

I generally do not have to worry about it, I like the planes that have a high ENY any way.  Killing N1ks in a P40 is both equally challenging and gratifing.  Also consider that the P.38G, P.47D-11, Bf.109E, F4F, C.202, and a host of other high ENY planes are worth flying even in the LWA.  Any aircraft has great potential to be lethal in the propper hands and used to its strengths.
 

[Ghosth]

Will everyone who wants to boot people out of an arena when inactive please remember a couple of things.


A People in the tower are not necessarily just "waiting".
B They can be planning an attack, choosing a plane, or any one of a number of things.
C There are very few people who deliberately just walk away from their computer hopeing to get a few perk points.

D You are asking HTC to kick off their customers. Starting a Public Relations nightmare of epic proportions.
Not to mention epic whining.
Its just NOT going to happen people. Get over it.

And remember, every time your in the tower for 30 seconds, someone may be wanting to kick YOU off!

   

[Ghastly]

...People in the tower are not necessarily just "waiting". ...
   

Good point - I didn't mean to insinuate that I believe that that is the case.  I was merely pointing out that when ENY kicks in, many players do attempt to "wait it out" rather than log or change sides, which will exaggerate discrepancy between "logged in" and "in flight".

And I agree with you wholeheartedly - there is little to be gained and much to be lost by trying to force folks off in this manner - not to mention that there is a relatively simple "counter" that would defeat it, such that the only people it would impact are those who had no ill intention in the first place.

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Grue

[wrongwayric]

You should have been here the night we had an "inactive" pilot in a B26. He took of, put it on auto climb and fell asleep with......his transmit button stuck. We listened to him snore 3/4 of the way across the map till someone switched countries and put him out of our misery.

[waystin2]

Hey, so every once in a while when I'm playing, I'll go and look to see who's flying and who's connected, and I see that there are like 100 people online on my team, but only 60 are ever active.  An excuse I've heard is that people just want the perk points for winning the war, so they stay online.  The biggest problem with this is it jacks up the ENY of that team, and that puts us at a big disadvantage.  I propose an inactive player disconnect (or kick) system so that this doesn't happen.  So lets say after 5 or 10 minutes of inactivity, you are kicked disconnected from the server.  This way, we'll actually have a server full of people playing, not just sitting there logged in taking up valuable server space.

First and foremost allow me to say, not interested in this idea at all.  Further, I believe that Hitech has ruled on this issue once before and has no intention of incorporating an auto-boot for inactive folks.

[SectorNine50]

Yup, that's been said a few times now.  I do think that an AFK feature of sorts would be effective and could help out in many instances though.  Nothing is perfect obviously.

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