Obnoxa.6702 Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 Well I'm definitely heading off to Sandswept Isles now to how well this is working... 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arianth Moonlight.6453 Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 login early for TT to avoid a full map? Nah, gg... teq? Pfft, good luck next time... Chalk? Better hope nobody lures a mob while you wait for the useless wall to fall down... Tarir? You better found something to do for the next 30 minutes... recently slain TM? Gee, you better have the next10 minutes available... 1 2 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heibi.4251 Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 I think ANET needs to clarify the writeup better. It is a little confusing. 4 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heibi.4251 Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 Just tested this. Got on my skyscale and hovered for 14 minutes without being sent to the character screen. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sobx.1758 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Tried with/without mech skill autocast on and this doesn't seem to be working at all. 🤷♂️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 19 minutes ago, Sobx.1758 said: Tried with/without mech skill autocast on and this doesn't seem to be working at all. 🤷♂️ I saw a bug thread where various tests seemed to indicate it wasn’t working 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sobx.1758 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 1 minute ago, Randulf.7614 said: I saw a bug thread where various tests seemed to indicate it wasn’t working Yup, I posted there too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiroho.4738 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 (edited) 1 hour ago, Heibi.4251 said: I think ANET needs to clarify the writeup better. It is a little confusing. "In open-world maps, the time remaining before a player who has not manually moved their character or performed any skill inputs is returned to character select is now reduced to 5 minutes if the player enters combat." What's confusing about that? 2 hours ago, Arianth Moonlight.6453 said: login early for TT to avoid a full map? Nah, gg... teq? Pfft, good luck next time... Chalk? Better hope nobody lures a mob while you wait for the useless wall to fall down... Tarir? You better found something to do for the next 30 minutes... recently slain TM? Gee, you better have the next10 minutes available... Just don't afk farm while waiting -> problem solved. It's not hard to not enter combat while being afk. Edited July 17 by kiroho.4738 spelling 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notebene.3190 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Well now I want chair combat. 1 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meridian.4983 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 58 minutes ago, notebene.3190 said: Well now I want chair combat. That’s how to be an armchair commander! 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illuminati.8453 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Doesn't work, tried to reproduce a boot to character screen and couldn't get it to happen. /smh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiof.5710 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 1 hour ago, notebene.3190 said: Well now I want chair combat. I'm torn between the mobile chairs with lance/spear or a game of Battleship between two people on chairs. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arianth Moonlight.6453 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 (edited) ok, I did a test, and it seems this is not working as intended. That or maybe it works on a map with a known farm spot but since I don't do that, I have no idea where to test it. edit: nope, I just afk for 40 minutes (I actually forgot I was logged in) and my character is still there, killing everything that spawns. Edited July 17 by Arianth Moonlight.6453 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 9 hours ago, Arianth Moonlight.6453 said: login early for TT to avoid a full map? Nah, gg... teq? Pfft, good luck next time... Chalk? Better hope nobody lures a mob while you wait for the useless wall to fall down... Tarir? You better found something to do for the next 30 minutes... recently slain TM? Gee, you better have the next10 minutes available... You have two very simple options to avoid this while waiting for something to start/end: 1) Don't get into combat while waiting 2) Move or use a skill once every 5 minutes For example after the Chak meta there's no enemies near the wall, so you can go AFK without getting into combat and get the entire duration of the existing timer (I'm not even sure how long that is, but it's longer than the wait time). If you're waiting for Teqatl and one of the fish heads attacks you - putting you into combat and starting the 5 minute timer - move away from it, then you're not AFK and won't get kicked and also won't be attacked. If you've ever done activities like Sanctum Sprint where you have to wait for the race to end to get the reward you'll likely have seen the inactivity warnings (because instances have a much shorter timer) and you'll know you literally just have to push one button to avoid it. Step forward once and you're counted as active and won't be kicked. (And if you've done activities and never seen the warning you've never been in a state the game considers AFK and therefore don't need to worry about it.) 8 hours ago, Heibi.4251 said: Just tested this. Got on my skyscale and hovered for 14 minutes without being sent to the character screen. It sounds like it's not working right now, but also that wouldn't trigger the 5-minute timer anyway, because you're not in combat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maliky.7450 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 17 hours ago, Olvendred.3027 said: It's to stop afk farming. But I do think this might be a bit much. It's not that unusual to be afk for a while, maybe waiting for an event, and potentially be put into combat if some mob shows up. It might kill you, or someone else kills it, but either way you didn't get any unwarranted rewards. You shouldn't lose your place on a map because of that. I would change this to start the 5 minute timer if you get a kill credit, rather than when you just enter combat. I mean, when you're waiting for an event, aren't you usually moving a bit around, as you constantly check if it's up? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 I'm kind of jealous of all these people who can apparently get into position for an event and then completely ignore the game until it's due to start. If I arrived on the map 10 minutes before an event then genuinely went AFK and did something else I'd be lucky to come back to the game 1/2 way through instead of when it's over and everyone has left. The most I can do is have an internet browser open on the same computer so I can see both that and the game. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gop.8713 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 This thread makes me weep for the state of reading comprehension ; p Sad to hear it's not working tho : / 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Ghostyy.3972 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Quote I just hope this works for the lawn ornaments in Eparch fight that won't respawn. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Ghostyy.3972 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Quote I just hope this works for the lawn ornaments in Eparch fight that won't respawn. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heibi.4251 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 4 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said: You have two very simple options to avoid this while waiting for something to start/end: 1) Don't get into combat while waiting 2) Move or use a skill once every 5 minutes For example after the Chak meta there's no enemies near the wall, so you can go AFK without getting into combat and get the entire duration of the existing timer (I'm not even sure how long that is, but it's longer than the wait time). If you're waiting for Teqatl and one of the fish heads attacks you - putting you into combat and starting the 5 minute timer - move away from it, then you're not AFK and won't get kicked and also won't be attacked. If you've ever done activities like Sanctum Sprint where you have to wait for the race to end to get the reward you'll likely have seen the inactivity warnings (because instances have a much shorter timer) and you'll know you literally just have to push one button to avoid it. Step forward once and you're counted as active and won't be kicked. (And if you've done activities and never seen the warning you've never been in a state the game considers AFK and therefore don't need to worry about it.) It sounds like it's not working right now, but also that wouldn't trigger the 5-minute timer anyway, because you're not in combat. I was testing to see if just afking on a skyscale, much like a chair(considered a mount), would take you to the load screen. A post about waiting for a meta event was concerned about this. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 9 minutes ago, Heibi.4251 said: I was testing to see if just afking on a skyscale, much like a chair(considered a mount), would take you to the load screen. A post about waiting for a meta event was concerned about this. The patch notes say "In open-world maps, the time remaining before a player who has not manually moved their character or performed any skill inputs is returned to character select is now reduced to 5 minutes if the player enters combat." So it was already clear that being on a mount or in a chair wouldn't initiate the 5-minute timer unless you got attacked. (Apparently it's also not working correctly now, but when it is it still won't affect AFKing on a skyscale.) 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zera.9435 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 14 hours ago, Arianth Moonlight.6453 said: login early for TT to avoid a full map? Nah, gg... teq? Pfft, good luck next time... Chalk? Better hope nobody lures a mob while you wait for the useless wall to fall down... Tarir? You better found something to do for the next 30 minutes... recently slain TM? Gee, you better have the next10 minutes available... Wait, you mean I have to actually play the game? Oh the horror! 1 6 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neathra.1950 Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 On 7/16/2024 at 7:11 PM, Arianth Moonlight.6453 said: login early for TT to avoid a full map? Nah, gg... teq? Pfft, good luck next time... Chalk? Better hope nobody lures a mob while you wait for the useless wall to fall down... Tarir? You better found something to do for the next 30 minutes... recently slain TM? Gee, you better have the next10 minutes available... So you just regularly walk away from your computer for more than 5 minutes while waiting on things? 3 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olvendred.3027 Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 19 hours ago, Maliky.7450 said: I mean, when you're waiting for an event, aren't you usually moving a bit around, as you constantly check if it's up? Only if it's an event that doesn't pop at a specific time. If you're sitting in DE waiting for the Soo-won pre-events to start, you don't need to keep checking up whether the escorts are going yet. They start every 2 hours on the hour and that's never going to change. You just look at the clock. Even if it's something that starts randomly, you could still know it's going to take more than 5 minutes to come back - like if it's on a 30 minute cooldown and someone says "it just finished 10 minutes ago." 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tea.5984 Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 I just really hope typing counts towards not getting you kicked, this is gonna make open world RP so much harder if not. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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