AFK: Ghost Mode Solution
 

I hate going near or around start. It's filled with afkers who are making the game slow.

I suggest a partial disconnection from era if a person goes afk. The player is disconnected from the server and a menu replaces era on screen.

The menu will have one button. It will say "Connect to Era," and maybe "you have not moved for x minutes on the server. I know the actual app kicks you off era if you afk for too long. However, when you lock your device, afk no longer matters. Ghost Mode would take those device lockers and force them to idle off connection.

An added bonus to ghost mode could be that you can still use pms, gms, and the main menu.

Agreed

Those bonus's would require connection..

i need hours to b cool tho

Well, you'd be connected, but your game wouldn't be active. Your character wouldn't be anywhere.

The character would have to be somewhere

Lol. Throw then in a new map just for afk. Let them all lag together in limbo.

Maybe a warp into the players (gang)house if they afk too long? if they dont have one... i dont know

Or maybe a warp to a place not used too often. Like the Potluck Pig, the art shrine in north era, that map north of gangster zone (someone's house?). Maybe pick a few low traffic areas and make the warp location random per person.

You could also make a conditional option. If era identifies players who have houses, they warp to houses. If not, the last ditch effort woul be to warp them to low traffic areas.

If they are afk let them go to there houses, if it's era and not era+ let them go to a blank level until they move again then tey will be back to their position

I thought about this too. Maybe when they're warped, the last place they were is saved. Maybe add an option where the player chooses to either stay or warp back to their pre-afk location.

No I don't want to walk all the way from southridge to north

It's not that hard to walk below start. Takes 2 extra seconds ...

That's not really the point. Sometimes my game crashes, my lagging device lags harder, etc. It's a cluster****.

Read post #11.

I'd say making a new hangout point is an option but everyone would just go there still.

I replied to post 10

It's not that everyone would go there, people will get bored and keep flocking to Start anyways.

yet start is boring as heck. lol

It is boring, but people tend to stray there because other people are there. I myself just like to idle in the subway and see if anyone ever comes in.

Stefan can make an AFK server where all the classic and era players hang out AFK. They could throw AFK partys...

No, really I think you the server should make a blank AFK level for every player so when they turn AFK then they will warp to their specified level.

I like it. A default afk level per player.

send them all to the twilight zone. Problem fixed.

I'd love to see someone run around start and staff stick everyone, moving all of those afkers to one spot, and hopefully make some of them crash. It'd be amazing to see start empty like that

Right? They all have it coming.

I always dreamed of using the Staff Boomerang (aka Unstick Boomerang) so they get warped to one spot and than crash their application on there... sadly that would be abusing powers >:

I honestly don't see that as abusive. If anything, that would make the game less laggy and benefit the server.

Or, make it so when someone goes AFK it puts them in a 'pk' zone and people get free kills. <-- idea of the century

Genius. Also, weapons disabling could be an option. If it's a non-pk zone, then what's the point in using a weapon? I imagine that could help lag a little, no petrol/other similar bombs bein' spammed.

IEra is gonna do little to afks because if they do they lose the people that do afk and that is a high amount of people. I Kidd you not.

Then how will people kill the crab king? You gotta think.

Actually more players afk on classic because there is some value to hours on there with the grotto, fan, zone, ect.

Why would the crab king be there in the first place?

One time like8 in the morning I was playing Era and had my egg launcher out and shot. The explosion hurt a few people (kinda like p4 in Ck Event) then everyone was killed at start :D All of them exept two had a revive xD.

Do what iClassic does and warp afkers to random buildings.

Amen.

There's a small patch of sand in start.

Thank you.

Make several levels designed for afkers, Ghost Mode then.

Ideas:

Retirement Home :D
Jungle
The Ghost Town
Lol...

Hilarious. It'll be like a "wtf" moment when they return.