What are the triggers for the AFK flag?

[Dagoth Earth]

Assuming you have a premade (because no, I don't do this in pugs) with a room-clear build wiping mobs and three levellers, what is the bare minimum engagement necessary for those levellers to avoid being flagged and losing experience gain?

There doesn't seem to be a huge amount of discussion on this, and the last time I was properly active with the game you could tab out for minutes at a time during stuff like lootroid survival farming and not have shared experience cut off.

[wanderlust]

its best not to talk about it so the weasels dont go reporting it

[Dagoth Earth]

True. It's genuinely sad that it's come to that, though. Not many developers out there with the active hostility DE shows to their playerbase.

[Alucard †]

Probably not the case anymore but i triggered the AFK flag twice in my playtime.

Once with Ash when clearing room full of enemies in Void defense (basically standing still and pressing 4 ocassionally triggered the AFK flag)

Other time with Mesa standing still and shooting stuff with 4 despite me moving the mouse and actually clicking (but not moving even an inch from my position) still got AFK flag for it.

Not moving was the trigger for the AFK flag.

[Rahlence]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Not moving was the trigger for the AFK flag.

This. Doesn't matter if you're using abilities or attacking. If you don't move, you get flagged after 2mins? something like that. You'll know because you become unable to gain energy

[Rays of Apollo]

Originally posted by Rahlence:

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Not moving was the trigger for the AFK flag.

This. Doesn't matter if you're using abilities or attacking. If you don't move, you get flagged after 2mins? something like that. You'll know because you become unable to gain energy

Oh that's evil.

[Walrus-Sama]

Not moving for 2 minutes is the trigger if I remember correctly.

It's a little suspicious as to why you're asking though...

[jonnin]

even doing CC or something for too long triggers it. You have to stop and restart the ability.

[PickleRick]

Originally posted by Rays of Apollo:

Originally posted by Rahlence:

This. Doesn't matter if you're using abilities or attacking. If you don't move, you get flagged after 2mins? something like that. You'll know because you become unable to gain energy

Oh that's evil.

People could just afk with a macro and get all the kills.

[Ghin]

i triggered the afk flag playing interception even though i was literally there the whole time talking and shooting things

[Archwraith]

Originally posted by Ghin:

i triggered the afk flag playing interception even though i was literally there the whole time talking and shooting things

If you are a client with a very very laggy host, this could happen since it does not register you as moving at all. I once triggered the flag like this.
But if you are the host, then I have no idea at all.

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by PickleRick:

Originally posted by Rays of Apollo:

Oh that's evil.

People could just afk with a macro and get all the kills.

then that's poor game design for this to be possible in the first place

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Originally posted by PickleRick:

Originally posted by Rays of Apollo:

Oh that's evil.

People could just afk with a macro and get all the kills.

Remember when Resonating Quake Banshee was an acceptable form of DPS in meta XP farming nodes? Yeah, you could literally be marked AFK by spending too long in a channeled ability that prevents you from moving while it's active. On the other hand, you couldn't gain energy while that ability was running whether or not you were marked AFK, so there was at least one other valid reason to move a few feet every now and again.

[jonnin]

Originally posted by Totally Innocent Chatbot:

Originally posted by PickleRick:

People could just afk with a macro and get all the kills.

Remember when Resonating Quake Banshee was an acceptable form of DPS in meta XP farming nodes? Yeah, you could literally be marked AFK by spending too long in a channeled ability that prevents you from moving while it's active. On the other hand, you couldn't gain energy while that ability was running whether or not you were marked AFK, so there was at least one other valid reason to move a few feet every now and again.

its radius is enough to keep a digging kubrow out of combat (so it will dig) and power pills dropped on your head are used, its just regens that are disabled, eg the aura and such. The only reason to get up was the overzealous afk timer.

[Dagoth Earth]

Originally posted by Walrus-Sama:

Not moving for 2 minutes is the trigger if I remember correctly.

It's a little suspicious as to why you're asking though...

...did someone seriously report my response to this?

My motives are exactly as stated: when I was last active group farming was my primary method of frame levelling and getting through the forma grind. I'd pull together a group of 3-4 friends who need stuff levelled, we'd go to a survival/defence map, we'd take turns running a room-clear frame, and we'd grind until everyone was maxed out. Rinse and repeat until everyone's grind was done, and we could move on to activities that are actually enjoyable. I wanted to know if the AFK mechanics have changed, as I never really looked at them before and only really understood them to be "don't be tabbed out of the game for too long while you're doing stuff in it."

Now @mods, if you're going to blanket delete a post in which there's no infringing or offensive content, can you at least explain why?

[lowgrav]

acording to google if you dont move a minumum of 5 meters every 2 min game flags you as afk

so you need to move the distance of a cyropod at least once every 1 min and 55 seconds