Is this becoming a trend?

Mishaela

Mishaela

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OK, last week as seen in a previous flame, partied with Silverwarrior, whom out of nowhere AFK'ed and never returned. Next day I partied with him, though didn't remember him, until he did the same thing.
On Tuesday, in Labyrynth of Onzozo, Brianmd (ooh, he has a green ribbon and +ele def neckpiece...and a sword..and shield..and adept rope...and didn't refresh....that's all off-topic.. D: ) did the same thing.
Yesterday, in Yuhtunga, Rokon did the same thing, though only for about half an hour, and hadto go the second he got back (which makes me wonder if something bad happened IRL, but still..).


What the crap is with these people AFKing without notice, for extended amounts of time? It slows down the party's kills, and slows 'em down even worse when we hafto boot them and find someone else. EXPing isn't that hard, especially after the patch that lowered the EXP-levelup requirements..if you're too lazy to at least TRY to be good for the party, just stick to trying to leech Eco-Warrior runs rather than dragging down what could otherwise be great parties.
 
I'm guilty of this a few times, but always because I start partying too late at night and just sorta... pass out. Two skillup sessions, one Charybdis camp, and two pre-40 XP parties thus far. I'm very surprised nobody's complained yet.
 
I did this once when I couldnt find a replacement for hours and said I needed to go like an hour before... I felt so bad ><

but anyways.. this happens in 70% of my partys at least once.
 
I always feel bad for leaving my party to go afk, even for 5-10 mins just to eat dinner :S

But yeah, it is very crappy, and annoying when someone does something like that. Atleast saying they're going afk is better than just doing it.
 
Lol. Yeah I saw you there that night. -_- Sorry about my party moving inbetween you guy's camp. God....I was with a majorly huge group of idiots. Well, the BLM and RNG friend actually. The decent players were two JP I couldn't communicate with for shit. >.O Anywho, the WHM puss'd out after one bad incident, which was when I CFH's on the Torama. Come to find out, I'd never been there, and the BLM wanted her RNG friend to come, so the RNG was 58...and WHEN WE GET THERE, says "oh I'm too low for this place" :x I was mildly frustrated. SHe continiously missed the SC...and no I don't mean acc wise, she just missed it. The BLM never MB'd right. x_X it sucked. Glad we left, lol, we were a burden on the other Two PT's, one being Ishaela's.
 
I'd have to agree with Ish, it is annoying and in the few times I have exped lately it seems to happen a lot more.

I just don't get why people would seek for a party if they know they will have to go afk or even that there is a chance of them having to do so. I can understand wanting to log and play but there is so many other things you can do other then partying that would allow you to go afk as much as you want.

For exemple, I have a familly member that's been sick lately and I have to do little thing to help her out, like groceries and such. Well I'm not gonna party if I know there is a chance the phone will ring during the evening and I'll have to ditch the party suddenly. I'll craft, help out friends, do different things.

Anyway, imo you should seek to exp only when you know you have at the very least 2 hours of free time, but that's just me.
 
Our tank out of nowhere went to sweep his floor AFTER we had entered the BC at Spire of Vahzl.

I'm also guilty of falling asleep, mostly on those late night fafnir's, and more recently, i got d2ed after Adamantoise at a nice loss of 2400 exp.
 
I've fallen asleep exactly once playing the game (and I was the white mage <_<). After that time I always made sure to leave pts well before I just can't stay awake anymore.

As for afks, anything more than 5 minutes without a damn good reason and prior party consent (or even multiple 5 minute afks without warning) is grounds for a good boot from pt as far as I'm concerned. If it turns out to be an insane medical emergency or whatever I highly doubt Final Fantasy XI is the highest priority for them so they won't care about the boot when they return.
 
I've fallen asleep twice or 3 times i think... but then again i usually party for 10 hrs minimum on weekends and average is 20 + hrs a seesion keke.
 
This is why you kick an afk-without-notice-person after 2 fights.
There isnt any point in keeping them around, they weren't considerite to you so you dont need to be considerate to them. If it was accidental then let them back in. Simple.
 
ahh the woulderful world of partys i feel asleep once while leveling in the dunes i partyed for about 12 hour that night in qufim then decide to level sub in the dune not a good idea the party booted me and i woke up and i was dead for about 45 mins witch i feel i got exactly what i deserved. i knew better then to go out that tierd but as we all seem to think "oh i got a few more hours in me" i saw somthing you should all see http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=112497703823889586&num=32
the reason this is so funny is because it is so true and i don t feel as bad because it happens on all the worlds. the only real solutions i can think of is go go with statics parties after one hits 18.
 
ahh the woulderful world of partys i feel asleep once while leveling in the dunes i partyed for about 12 hour that night in qufim then decide to level sub in the dune not a good idea the party booted me and i woke up and i was dead for about 45 mins witch i feel i got exactly what i deserved. i knew better then to go out that tierd but as we all seem to think "oh i got a few more hours in me" i saw somthing you should all see http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=112497703823889586&num=32
the reason this is so funny is because it is so true and i don t feel as bad because it happens on all the worlds. the only real solutions i can think of is go with statics parties after one hits 18. if only it was possible to have a party o meter
 
Off topic:

Brianmd is such a freakin worthless pile of crap... he refuses to refresh and melee's all the time..he thinks hes a badass, but he really is just a lil prick who cant play rdm for crap..

/rant --you may now continue spontaneous afkness--
 
I fell asleep once in a party once. I felt so bad..I just like fell asleep and woke up like 2 hours later ._." I was whm..and I was like "I'm sorry!" cubed.
 
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