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Blzut3
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2013-08-12 23:29
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I'm going to guess this is going to be rejected since a game server isn't a chat room. IMO, if you're going to be away from a server from a period of time long enough for someone to think you're just being a jerk, you should probably leave the server and join again when you come back.
You might argue that it would let people know you're interested in playing in an otherwise empty server, but I don't think I'd personally wait around for someone with the afk flag set. |
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Like I said, this isn't a big deal but on servers like Wrath of Cronos, RGA 2, RGH and any other server where you accumulate rewards over the course of your playtime, leaving and rejoining will pretty much nullify anything you accomplished over the past hours. The functionality I suggested of the auto-toggle would be a bonus for the reasons I have already given. Aside from any difficulty in coding my suggestion I can't see any negative impact in having it implemented. It's not going to change actual gameplay or affect compatibility with mods or maps, I don't know that it would give anyone an advantage or disadvantage in a particular game mode. I don't know... it just seems like this would be a win all around. I can't say that your argument against it has much strength to me, in fact it doesn't really make any clear logical points... more like a personal distaste for it. I can understand if this would require large amounts of time and effort to implement but so far I have not heard anyone say that. |
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Blzut3
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2013-08-13 02:14
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Well the logical reason to disconnect is player slots are limited. Maybe not in the servers that you regular, but sitting afk in a 8 slot server isn't exactly a great idea. ;) |
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Like odamex? The ready up (@ original tracker poster) |
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I have no experience with Odamex. As for source ports I have only played Zdoom, Skulltag and Zandronum so I don't get the reference. |
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Dusk
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2013-08-13 11:46
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Is just changing your name to leave a mention not good enough? |
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Konar6
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2013-08-13 17:06
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^ this
I see players putting "afk" in their name while waiting for people regularly, works well. |
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Alright, it's clear to me that everyone hates the idea so I give up. |
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Dusk
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2013-08-13 20:31
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I honestly don't think this would be useful. Existing method of changing your name to tag yourself as afk works well enough already in cases where this is not undesirable. (do note though, this is quite far away from saying "everybody hates it") |
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