Idle timer

[Felipe Jardim]

Yesterday I was AFK for 25 mins, and got spectated by BEZ because I was taking up a useful driving space (understandable)

He asked me to just stay in spectator mode in the future, and i wouldn't mind this at all but I only get my 60 mins idle time if I'm on track. In spectator mode, this goes down to the standard 10 mins.

Maybe flip this around so people won't stay AFK on track and can take a meal/cigarette break in SHIFT S mode without getting kicked in 10 mins? Give the full 60 mins after 200 km in spec mode only?

[bayanofmansorofisky]

I like this but id also suggest some tweaks.
Like to make idle kick at 5 mins when server is absolutely full and there's people in join queue.
And ppl who's afk in standby (not on joining queue) mode be kicked after 5 mins aswell but again, when server is peaked and players in queue

[Felipe Jardim]

(2023-09-26 05:30)bayanofmansorofisky Wrote:  And ppl who's afk in standby (not on joining queue) mode be kicked after 5 mins aswell but again, when server is peaked and players in queue

This is too little time. Sometimes you might drive for 30 mins to an hour straight and need a break, Players in shift S mode should get the amount of time they earned through their distance.

[◄Chuck►]

The idle timer needs some tuning after the recent changes as there are more people having long trips. This is a complicated matter tbh. Simply reducing the idle time to 5 minutes if the server is full is not a viable solution. Imagine you park somewhere, idle timer shows 30minutes, then in the next 2 minutes the server fills up, countdown jumps from 28 to 5 minutes, player gets kicked, loses trip.

[[RDSR] Speed Demon]

I don't know how the current system is, but getting a 1 hour idle kick at 200 km seemed like a daily task to me personally, and achieving it made me happy. I'm on the side of preserving this. I currently have 2400+ km, but it will calculate how many km I do daily and an idle kick system can be installed accordingly.

[SIMOX]

Ye the old trip system was better imo

[Marty_Deslions]

Why even allow people to be afk for long time while others are waiting to join? Maybe just reduce the idle timer to 15 minutes when people are waiting. If you then get idle kicked, you keep the trip.

[Orange™]

I like the old system too. I've just joined with 100km and got 30minutes timer, so really everyone getting these 5000+ KM will just log into server and stay AFK. New system only good for 1 or 2 players.

[SO•Yukine]

Now that you keep your trip indefinetely, why not just leave the server?

I'd say, reduce the maximum idle timer to 15 minutes.