AndrewLB Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 What happened to being auto-kicked for inactivity? I'm a bit confused here. Over the past year, I've had a few times where due to lack of sleep since raising things such as gigas is total cancer, nodded off while playing ark. Almost every time i wake up to the title screen music and it says i was kicked due to inactivity, and every time i login and find myself dead and my gear already decayed and all the babies i was raising.... dead. Not to mention recently having a cryopod on me with my favorite drake... *sigh* There was a time where i could have sworn the kick system would kick you simply for inactivity, specifically for not moving your mouse or hitting a key for X amount of time. I know this to be the case because i remember some people who did a lot of breeding and would be afk for extended periods would use a type of macro in order to stay on the server. I usually keep up with ark news fairly well but i cannot remember ever hearing about a change to the way the kick system worked. You may wonder why now am i asking this. Well earlier today i had something come up and left ark running while laying on the floor of my base and completely forgot i had the game running. I just walked in the door, 9 hours later (according to battlemetrics) and figured the game would have kicked me due to inactivity.... nope. Still laying there. Water at 38/100 and food almost full to my surprise. not sure how that happened but i was wearing full hazard and was laying by 25 air cons. So essentially, the game will kick you if you die and are inactive (making recovery of gear and/or dino difficult at best if you were traveling and nodded off), but if you're just laying there in your base taking up a slot on the server... you don't get kicked? IMO it would be nice if Wildcard would bring back the "if you don't touch your mouse or keyboard for 30 minutes, you get punted" system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mert66 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 If you are afking on a server and lets say the server is 20/70, if a enemy attacks you and caps your server the persons who are afking (who arent dying) they get kicked for inactivity so there is more room for pvpers from each side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jemcrystal Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 I absolutely hate auto kick in every mmo I have played because it is BEYOND THE COMPREHENSION OF ALL DEVS IN ANY KNOWN UNIVERSE TO MAKE AUTO KICK AFTER A COMPLETE HOUR HAS TRANSPIRED. Why do they think it must always be 15 BeLoVeD MiNuTeS! No one can poop in 15 minutes or less. N O O N E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator invincibleqc Posted August 8, 2019 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted August 8, 2019 39 minutes ago, Jemcrystal said: No one can poop in 15 minutes or less. N O O N E You should increase your fiber intake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covenantgrunt Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Jemcrystal said: I absolutely hate auto kick in every mmo I have played because it is BEYOND THE COMPREHENSION OF ALL DEVS IN ANY KNOWN UNIVERSE TO MAKE AUTO KICK AFTER A COMPLETE HOUR HAS TRANSPIRED. Why do they think it must always be 15 BeLoVeD MiNuTeS! No one can poop in 15 minutes or less. N O O N E Fairly certain its longer than 15 mins. Thats the upload timer. People AFK by transmitter longer than that regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yekrucifixion187 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 It is based on server pop. Think if server pop is 50% or more and you afk for a set amount of time, then you get kicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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