03-11-2010, 05:24 PM
(03-11-2010, 03:39 PM)Future link Wrote:I don't agree with removal of idle kicker, because:
People with platinum account and autobank on, could avoid taxes, could leave game open entire night, 8 hours for filling entire 2 billion account, with 4-5 millions per minute, assuming that in the night few players buys properties.
People pausing the game without returning back, in front of ship (main fight area) or other streets, annoys other players who try to kill them (this is annoying even if they idle several minutes).
People who idles in fight club, races, or other minigames could stuck the game for hours.
I agree only if the kick is replaced with an automatic /pause, also the earnings to be stopped. The owned properties will be preserved?
BTW, anybody knows if now we could earn money, get taxed, /bank it, while we are in /pause?
How the idle kicker was recently extended to support trains????
Since launch of 0.3x I ride trains numerous times, while minimizing game to take care about other things, and everytime when I forgot or I could not return in less than 15 mins, I got kicked for idling.
Is clearly that the idle kicker detects if any key is pressed, not if the player moves around, or moves the mouse.
Why the hell do you care if a player is paused somewhere (ie. Infront of the ship)? So what if he's idling there? What the hell does it have to do with someone suddenly shooting at him? He was already paused, and thus didn't avoid death or anything else.
About the filling your bank thing, to be honest, I could give a shit less. They leave their computer on, running, thus they use electricity. And last time I checked, electricity = real money.
An automatic pause is useless. I don't think I really need to explain how stupid that sounds. Idling on the ship is allowed at all time (even though players currently get kicked for it because of the kicker). I don't see why a player cannot simply pause his game. It's not like it's an FPS gaming server or whatever, where slots are needed. LVP provides more than enough player slots for the current amount of players. The earnings don't need to be stopped either, in my opinion.
One must be stupid too, to idle/go afk whilst he's a in a mini-game. But hey, do we not have a /report function for that? People who do that simply get kicked out. Besides, even if no administrator would be on, what would it hurt to simply type /leave? It's only one mini-game.
Another note I'd make is how you stated the idle-kicker kicked you several times out the game whilst idling on a train. Well, you even said so yourself that it only recently got implemented. Matthias has already stated though that it indeed detects if a player moves around or not.
As a last statement, I'd like to say that Jay is a sexy bitch.