103711-am-i-not-typing

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<afk> I don't get it. <afk> Honestly. <afk> Doesn't the act of typing kinda involve being at a keyboard? <afk> I'm pretty sure I'm at my keyboard right now. <afk> Is using the AH and the CX considered not playing? <afk> Is chatting with guildies and other players not considered properly playing the game? <afk> I dunno. <afk> I guess it's just annoying to be constantly flagged AFK when I'm not AFK. <afk> Being auto-tagged as AFK should happen when we're, I dunno, actually away from the keyboard, you know, inactive, completely. 
 
<afk> So, if it's not too much to ask, could you change the AFK flagging to when we're actually AFK, and not simply not moving? <afk> It makes no sense otherwise, and it's kinda obnoxious.
 
<afk> Thanks. 	
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It's not enough to be at your keyboard. You have to be right clicking your mouse for the game to really understand that you're not passed out from boredom.
 
#hardcore	
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			they do this for the gold spammers. makes it to they get kicked fi they don't move or anything other then type. Tap I to open inv or move slightly ti takes a whole 2 seconds. I know its a pain but without it gold spammers could sit in town and spam like tera online and other mmos. side note..didn't you know typing is the main sign of being afk? :P	
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And crafting counts as afk too.
 
lol	
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they do this for the gold spammers. makes it to they get kicked fi they don't move or anything other then type. Tap I to open inv or move slightly ti takes a whole 2 seconds. I know its a pain but without it gold spammers could sit in town and spam like tera online and other mmos. side note..didn't you know typing is the main sign of being afk? :P
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#hardcore
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<afk> Funny you mention that. <afk> Every time I run into something in the game needlessly obnoxious, tedious, difficult or just annoying, in my head, I hear Frost saying "hardcore." 
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And crafting counts as afk too.
 
lol
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			21:28 [Party] KittyHasClaws <afk>: yeah, it's really annoying, esp since the afk timer seems to be like 5min	
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When I'm crafting I'm usually away breaking the keyboard :D
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			Funny how whenever I'm working on my LAS I'm somehow doing so while AFK.	
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<afk> Yeah. <afk> Angry German kid was clearly leveling architecture. 
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21:28 [Party] KittyHasClaws <afk>: yeah, it's really annoying, esp since the afk timer seems to be like 5min
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<afk> That long?
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			Can you imagine how an average RP session looks like? People jumping or fidgeting with their characters every five minutes to clear the <afk> tag. Incredible.	
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Any outgoing text at all prefixed by <afk> just makes the developers look inept and the product look beta when the person cannot possibly meet that condition and still hit Enter to send the message.
 
Now, if you send someone a whisper and their client auto-responds "I am AFK" or some nonsense when they are actually AFK (which should also be an option to disable), that's fine.  But receiving a reply prefixed by <afk> is just... no, don't do it.	
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<afk> I agree this is really annoying and I noticed it
<afk> very quickly when I started playing.
<afk> I always figured it was set that way to frustrate PVP botters, though, who would 
<afk> go into a match, then just sit there while they chatted with friends and
<afk> earn the PvP rewards. 
<afk>  Am I wrong about this? 
<afk> I don't PvP so I have no idea if this actually helps with the PvP bot problem. 
<afk> It sure is annoying for PvE folks though. 
<afk> Especially when crafting.  Sheesh. 	
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			You'd think we were still playing in beta or even alpha....	
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Can you imagine how an average RP session looks like? People jumping or fidgeting with their characters every five minutes to clear the <afk> tag. Incredible.
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Can you imagine how an average RP session looks like? People jumping or fidgeting with their characters every five minutes to clear the <afk> tag. Incredible.
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			<afk> So, using the AH/CX, chatting, crafting and RP are all considered not playing the game properly, I take it? 	
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And crafting counts as afk too.
 
lol
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I do go afk when crafting! Queue up those 80 BiS fibermod pieces, go make a hotpocket, grab a cold drink, look at some midget po...wait, what were we talking about?
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<afk> Yeah. <afk> Angry German kid was clearly leveling architecture. 
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			So I was waiting for the Thayd run challenge to become available again and decided to hop on the piece of metal that floats in a circle around Spaceport Horizon for giggles. I wasn't flagged as AFK while on top of it.	
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