NO auto kick For AFK'rs the reason there is no balance in DB

(JonBongNoJovi) #1

So if your attacking ( more noticable) and are plagued by people AFK you can basically write of the game as a loss , we shouldn’t have to vote to get rid of someone who isn’t there and the current what ? 5 mins before auto kick actually does something means game is already a loss.

Yeah you can start a vote to kick but not everyone votes leaving it a total inbalance , sort it out ffs DB its been going on too long now , just fix the AFK problem already and kick them if they don’t spawn at start or within 30 seconds or something , just dont leave it in it’s current state.

Being just 1 man down in this game makes all the difference.

(bgyoshi) #2

I’ve always hated that it’s vote-kick instead of autokick for AFKs

Most of the time people don’t even know there’s an active vote anyway.

(Cletus_VanDamme) #3

You’re 100% right.

With pubs being advertised as ‘drop in / drop out’ why is there such an issue kicking AFK people? They can just join another game when they finish what took them away from their PC right?

AFK kick after 10-20 seconds.

No votes, just goodbye.

Once people start getting kicked often, they’ll figure it out.

If they don’t want to get kicked they won’t go AFK. EZ solution.

(bgyoshi) #4

10 seconds? I don’t need to get kicked for sneezing and needing a tissue

The 30 second idle timer is fine

(JonBongNoJovi) #5

@bgyoshi where you getting this 30 second idle timer from ? if it was that yeah i wouldn’t be so bothered that’s like 1 spawn wave ish , but it’s not remotely that short of time by a long shot

(bgyoshi) #6

@JonBongNoJovi said:
@bgyoshi where you getting this 30 second idle timer from ? if it was that yeah i wouldn’t be so bothered that’s like 1 spawn wave ish , but it’s not remotely that short of time by a long shot

I thought I read somewhere the AFK timer was 30 seconds. But maybe it isn’t.

What I mean to say is, whatever the timer is now, it’s fine. The only change is, it needs to autokick, instead of calling a vote, in pubs.

(Chris Mullins) #7

After 50 seconds a ‘Vote Kick’ is called, and after 2 minutes of inactivity (including the initial 50 seconds) they will be kicked from the match.

(bgyoshi) #8

@stayfreshshoe said:
After 50 seconds a ‘Vote Kick’ is called, and after 2 minutes of inactivity (including the initial 50 seconds) they will be kicked from the match.

Thanks for the clarification!

This makes sense in Stopwatch where there is 15 minutes of game for more players to join, but makes less sense in Objective. Being down a player or two for a full 2 minutes before kicking is likely going to run into the end of the match. If the person is afk right off the bat, it won’t be as detrimental… but usually what I notice is players playing for a minute or two, then going afk.

Taking Stopwatch and Execution into account, I’d say switch it to a 1 minute/70 second timer and autokick, no vote. But allow the player to rejoin the server if it’s still available.

Only in pubs, mind you. I don’t see the purpose of AFK auto kicks in Ranked, since no one else will be joining the Ranked match to fill in the slot. That should be vote kick only.