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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Dragon Tamer on November 21, 2014, 08:28:58 PM

Title: AFK wish
Post by: Dragon Tamer on November 21, 2014, 08:28:58 PM
I wish the AFK status would be disabled when an input from the joystick or keyboard was made. I also wish that if you PMed someone who was AFK it would give you a system/host message that they are in fact AFK.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: Lusche on November 21, 2014, 08:30:35 PM
I also wish that if you PMed someone who was AFK it would give you a system/host message that they are in fact AFK.

To take it a tad further, if this was implemented (+1) would it be also possible to set AFK automatically when minimizing the game?
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: pembquist on November 21, 2014, 08:34:15 PM
+1 to go another tad further could your icon somehow reflect your AFK status, (color, text etc.,) in order to save check 6 and pointless help etc.?
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: Wiley on November 21, 2014, 09:07:10 PM
+1 to go another tad further have the modified icon visible only to friendlies.

Wiley.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: Oldman731 on November 21, 2014, 10:46:17 PM
Who is Tad?

- oldman
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: colmbo on November 21, 2014, 10:50:15 PM
Who is Tad?

- oldman

I don't know but he seems to be further along than most.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: xPoisonx on November 21, 2014, 11:22:37 PM
+1 to go another tad further have the modified icon visible only to friendlies.

Wiley.
This would add a million ways to abuse it.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: Wiley on November 21, 2014, 11:25:53 PM
This would add a million ways to abuse it.

How would the afk flag being visible only to friendlies be abusable?

Wiley.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: guncrasher on November 21, 2014, 11:36:51 PM
How would the afk flag being visible only to friendlies be abusable?

Wiley.

take a bomber click afk and watch your plane being invisible to the enemy all the way to hq.  heck it would finally allow me to avoid snailman.  i swear that guy smells bombers from 20 sectors away :).


semp
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: Devil 505 on November 22, 2014, 02:16:00 AM
take a bomber click afk and watch your plane being invisible to the enemy all the way to hq.  heck it would finally allow me to avoid snailman.  i swear that guy smells bombers from 20 sectors away :).


semp

He means the specific "AFK" tag is for friendlies only, enemies will just see a regular icon.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: ONTOS on November 22, 2014, 12:26:34 PM
+1
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: Volron on November 22, 2014, 02:45:14 PM
What if we were to also change it to a clipboard option, where all I had to do was pull up the clipboard and check the box AFK, rather than pulling up Text/VOX?
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: xPoisonx on November 22, 2014, 04:45:41 PM
How would the afk flag being visible only to friendlies be abusable?

Wiley.

My bad, thought you meant no icon for planes marked afk  :old:
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: Wiley on November 22, 2014, 05:23:40 PM
My bad, thought you meant no icon for planes marked afk  :old:

No worries, when I saw that, I was like, 'Oh dear, nonononono.'  All good. :)  My wording could've been better, and I agree, that would be a horrible idea.

Wiley.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: pembquist on November 22, 2014, 07:15:57 PM
What Wiley said is what I meant, the cowardly nme shouldn't know your AFK from 6k out, but I would like to let my own side know.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: guncrasher on November 22, 2014, 07:51:45 PM
He means the specific "AFK" tag is for friendlies only, enemies will just see a regular icon.

ok then wish granted.  just click that you are afk, anybody that looks at who's on range will see who's afk.

semp
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: BowHTR on November 23, 2014, 09:20:55 AM
Add in that those that are AFK for X amount of time are kicked from the game so they wont conflict with the eny.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: pembquist on November 23, 2014, 10:45:14 AM
ok then wish granted.  just click that you are afk, anybody that looks at who's on range will see who's afk.

semp

Not to quibble but that isn't the wish, the wish is for people to actually know your afk not potentionally know.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: guncrasher on November 23, 2014, 06:53:17 PM
Not to quibble but that isn't the wish, the wish is for people to actually know your afk not potentionally know.

Ok I understand now.  but to be honest how many people are gonna click the afk key before leaving?  we have one now and most people dont use it.


semp
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: pembquist on November 24, 2014, 12:55:12 AM
Ok I understand now.  but to be honest how many people are gonna click the afk key before leaving?  we have one now and most people dont use it.


semp

I don't use it because I figure no one is going to read it, and also if I remember right the last times I used it you couldn't unclick it, (bug type thing.) Really It isn't any kind of burning inadequacy of the game just a little featurette that would be nice.
Title: Re: AFK wish
Post by: stealth on November 24, 2014, 05:08:49 AM
+1