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AFK title.

meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,967 Arc User1
edited March 2014 in Suggestions Box
A very simple suggestion:

"AFK" or "Away From Keyboard" title available for every character on the account.

It's a straightforward QoL improvement. Yeah, we have /afk command but it doesn't show above the character's head.

Not something needed ASAP, or something of critical importance, but would be nice to have it anyway.
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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    It could be a Perk. Maybe if you manage to stay 3 hours as AFK, you get the Title AFK.
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  • meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,967 Arc User1
    edited March 2014
    Fair enough. I'd probably acquire it x10 on every character. :cool:
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  • drgmstrdrgmstr Posts: 902 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Now THIS I would love to have. I can run afk a lot while I am standing in Caprice waiting for an RP to start but many of times I get people PMing: "(Are you afk?)" "(AFK?)" "(Hello? Are you afk?)". I mean if I don't reply after the first 20 times you've asked me if I am AFK then it must mean I'm AFK.
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  • stergasterga Posts: 2,353 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I would be happy if using /afk actually tagged your name as <afk> like in most other games. Not really interested in a title for that. There is no reason for the command to exist if it doesn't give people an obvious visual cue that you aren't there.

    i.e. my name would show up as

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  • xcaligaxxcaligax Posts: 1,096 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I would abuse this so heavily. Most of the time, I stand in RenCen, pretending to be afk, when actually im eating snacks and watching youtube videos.
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  • bluhmanbluhman Posts: 2,411 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Having the AFK tag over your head was really useful back in CoX. There, it could be used to show a small 'typing...' tag whenever you began preparing a message. That, and also the whole knowing-when-someone's-actually-AFK thing.
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  • flowcytoflowcyto Posts: 12,874 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    yeah I did always wonder why something like an AFK or DND flag/tag doesn't display in CO. Would appreciate if CN could implement one.
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