Idling

[Mele]

Idling you do it, I do it, we all do it at some point. We idle for a minute to go to the store on the corner, take a shower, cook dinner, or hang out on an alt hoping to catch a specific character around. For most of this you pop on an afk flag (or not, really! I'm kind of bad about that part myself!) and do your thing with the intention of returning, or you're active and available while waiting for something interesting to come your way. In my book, this is completely fine.

Here is what is not cool; idling while you are doing something that requires so much of your attention that you simply cannot give any to FK. This turns into blatantly idling for kismet and hours. Worse, when you idle in a public place you ignore other characters that come in and out making it obvious to your fellow players. For example, when you idle in the Market and someone waits for five minutes to get a reaction and it is an osay apologizing because you're at work/playing another game/dealing with real life -- you probably should not be at the very least, in a public place where you know characters often meet. (Some examples of these places would be the Markets in Waterdeep and Zhentil Keep, the Purple Haze, the ? of Ardeep.)

So the moral of my story here: Idling is okay, but when you are doing this excessively and in public places it is not polite, or desired behavior. Idling to gain kismet specifically can and has come with the consequence of said kismet removed. Idling for hours because you think it adds to the credibility of your character is a mistake. Not only can immortals notice easily how you gained your hours, your fellow players also notice and do not think any greater of the character based on this.

If you cannot devote to checking the screen probably every minute or so, you need to either move to a private place (In the case of only a short period of time for this) or log off and come back when you're done with your other interests/obligations (when you're doing this for hours on end a day).

[Mele]

As a rule of thumb if you know your time might be cut out please seek and destroy 'autolog' triggers that will leave your character reconnecting in limbo for hours.


In Zmud you will find that here:

> View
> Triggers
> Class == autolog
> Unclick 'Enabled' the green light will disappear
> Or simply delete them in general

Thank you!

*Autlog not to be confused with autoreconnect. So long as your account and password are not automatically going in your character will not remain online, nor will your account spam connection onto the game.

[Mele]

It seems this needs to be brought up again and let me be very clear in addition here.

This is a game, if you're not on to PLAY you do not belong on. Your kismet WILL be removed for being online just to sit there earning kismet and hours.