Avoiding getting afk flag on slaves? (8.1 autokick from warfronts)

[Dreadone]

Hi guys.

Since blizzard announced that people which get the afk flag in warfronts will be automatically kicked out
of the instance in 8.1 are there any ways to prevent this from happening on my slaves. My slaves are always
afk flagged.Even following my main and pushing gnomesequencer macros. Any workaround? Tip?
Yeah i could jump from time to time but i tend to forget it in the heat of battle... =)

[Jabberie]

Being afk flagged and the act of being flagged as afk are 2 different things.
I've never see slaves get flagged while being active with maps on through main. are you sure about that?

[JohnGabriel]

In your wow settings....

esc->interface->controls->Auto Cancel Away Mode

Make sure that is checked.

[MiRai]

In your wow settings....

esc->interface->controls->Auto Cancel Away Mode

Make sure that is checked.
It almost seems too easy. :)

[Dreadone]

It almost seems too easy. :)

Im not THAT stupid ;). That doesnt work :P Try it out yourself.Let Your toons only /follow you. Theyll get the afk flag. Your not using gnomesequencer
perhaps thats the point.

[Jabberie]

Im not THAT stupid ;). That doesnt work :P Try it out yourself.Let Your toons only /follow you. Theyll get the afk flag. Your not using gnomesequencer perhaps thats the point.

???? if you're afk, you're afk

[MiRai]

Im not THAT stupid ;). That doesnt work :P Try it out yourself.Let Your toons only /follow you. Theyll get the afk flag. Your not using gnomesequencer
perhaps thats the point.
I don't think I have an answer, but I'm also not sure I follow what you're saying. Which are you saying, if any:

A) Your slaves are getting flagged for being AFK even though they're performing actions and attacking enemy units.
B) Your slaves, after receiving the AFK flag, can no longer attack and therefore cannot clear said flag.
C) Your slaves are on follow and are doing nothing, and they are getting flagged for being AFK.

[mbox_bob]

Not that I'm an expert, but I thought that Gnomesequencer would require you to at least trigger the macros it generates by sending a keystroke to the game?. And anything otherwise would be rather frowned upon.

That said, even issuing the odd Follow command should clear AFK (logic dictates you have to be there to press something to initiate follow), so unless you happen to be really lucky to never need to issue Follow other than right at the beginning, it seems a bit odd.

Of course, the easy workaround, would be to on the odd occasion, perform a step forward/backward on all toons, and then /Follow and off you go. Could even be integrated into a follow command. Take a step and Follow Me.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Does jumping not clear the AFK flag? If it does, I find it beyond reasonable that anyone in PVP isn't clearing that flag at least every 5 seconds, based on my experience.

[Toned]

I mash the spacebar when running around and fighting all the time, and this works fine.

[valkry]

Jump

[luxlunae]

I just jump to clear afk,, doesn't that work in warfronts?

[WOWBOX40]

Ive yet to have this issue, but way back, if you got rapported afk, you had to get back into combat within a short timer, or else you got booted out of the bg. If i recall, it was a countdowntimer on the debuff you got. No idea if thats the case nowdays.

[Dreadone]

Testet it again. As long as my slaves are in the "background" they automaticaly get the afk flag. it doesnt matter if they receive any keymaps or something while following. Yeah broadcast jumping solves the problem.Sure it does.Thats not the point =) . I tend to forget it hehe. Dont want to be in the heat of battle and wuuush...4 chars leave instance for beeing afk flagged because i forgot to friggin jump at times *G*

In isboxer there is the character set option "make game believe its foreground window.....". I left this unchecked since forever. Never used it. Perhaps that could fix it? Do you guys have the option activated?


I don't think I have an answer, but I'm also not sure I follow what you're saying. Which are you saying, if any:

A) Your slaves are getting flagged for being AFK even though they're performing actions and attacking enemy units.
B) Your slaves, after receiving the AFK flag, can no longer attack and therefore cannot clear said flag.
C) Your slaves are on follow and are doing nothing, and they are getting flagged for being AFK.

Option A
As long the toons are not on the main window they get afk flag. Doesnt matter if the attack something..performing macros or using skills...they. go.afk. =)
I know i only have to broadcast something manualy like a jump to fix this. But thats not a solution.

Perhaps you can "expand" the "auto assist keymap" for example. Like a "do a step forward" step to prevent getting the afk flag. Have to think about that =)

[ebony]

"Afk flag" got nothing to do with being "afk" /afk command if they added a auto afk kicking system it be like the ones in bgs etc... that be a new 5 sec buff before u get booted with or without /afk.... before your name

[JohnGabriel]

The afk battleground system never really worked well for battlegrounds where PvE can happen, for example the mines in AV. Yes the guy sitting at the graveyard for the last several minutes is AFK but not the guy doing the mine, hes too far away from the fighting to clear the afk flag when reported.

[WOWBOX40]

Wow has always been like this for as long as i can remember: if you dont do any movement within "5 min", you will go afk. If you then stay afk for around 30 min, you will get logged out of the game.

There are times where i ride around and they do go afk, but its just a simple jump to remove this. Ofc, if you do this while in a bg, the system will register you as litterarly afk, and kick you earlier (would be unfair for the others beeing forced to wait 25 min for you to get kicked). So if you are flagged afk and then people report you afk.. you could be booted out very fast.

Just have names displayed above the heads of characters, on, on your main atleast, and its veeeeery easy to see when a clump of characters behind you is turning "afk" = you need to jump.

Doesnt EMA / jamba already also have this feature, to warn you if a character go afk...im not home, so cant check.

Just sound like you should pick up the habbit of jumping a bit more in general :)

Aha... a hotfix just in....


Warfronts

Players who are Away From Keyboard will now be automatically removed from the Warfront.



Jump more often.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I know i only have to broadcast something manualy like a jump to fix this. But thats not a solution.
If it's stupid and it works, it isn't stupid.

[Dreadone]

To my question:

In isboxer there is the character set option "make game believe its foreground window.....". I left this unchecked since forever. Never used it. Do you guys have the option activated?

Or is that option a gimmik needed for another mmo?

[Jabberie]

Did a WF on lunch there, maybe it's because I run trinity and basically cap nodes but I don't know how you could ever get flagged afk. there is always some sort of movement or jump or something required.

I'll test out just using GSE tonight to see if they go afk only mashing my dps button.

[JohnGabriel]

I was actually astonished by the question as I had no idea it was an issue. Seems it might be a GSE issue only? I do not use it and the only time I have ever had a follower go afk is sitting at flight paths.

[WOWBOX40]

To my question:

In isboxer there is the character set option "make game believe its foreground window.....". I left this unchecked since forever. Never used it. Do you guys have the option activated?

Or is that option a gimmik needed for another mmo?

You know normally when you play its only your main window thats in foreground (f.ex 60 fps), while the slaves run at 30 or lower fps in background. On the other hand, there can be times when you always, for some reason, also want a different game to also run at 60 fps, at the same time. Prime example of this is my main healer, which i run on full screen on a different monitor. If i were to run him at 30 or lower fps it would look terrible. So that why i prefere to always have him at 60 fps (the screen runs more fluid, it moves faster, so i can react a bit faster, atleast thats my personal feeling).

There could be some other feature for other things aswell, never thought of it myself really.

[MiRai]

To my question:

In isboxer there is the character set option "make game believe its foreground window.....". I left this unchecked since forever. Never used it. Do you guys have the option activated?

Or is that option a gimmik needed for another mmo?
The option isn't enabled on wizard-created Character Sets for WoW because it isn't required. The setting itself makes any game window that is not in focus think it's in the foreground so that keystrokes can be sent to it, because some games don't accept keystrokes when they're in the background—WoW is not one of those games.

Since others who do use the default setup (i.e. "Make foreground..." isn't enabled) aren't experiencing the issue you describe, it's unlikely going to change anything. As others have stated, you are the one and only person I've heard report this issue at this time.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

To my question:

In isboxer there is the character set option "make game believe its foreground window.....". I left this unchecked since forever. Never used it. Do you guys have the option activated?No.

[mrdsp]

I have SPACE as a key that's always broadcast (can be funny when on and typing) - I find as I naturally seem to jump around it makes sure none of my toons go AFK.

[luxlunae]

I have SPACE as a key that's always broadcast (can be funny when on and typing) - I find as I naturally seem to jump around it makes sure none of my toons go AFK.

I used to do this but it looked really stupid when I was messaging people! Alt + Spacebar for group jump is the way to go.