[JonColmanator]

problem : someone can put a weight on their W key and have their person move forward into a corner all night

Good point...perhaps a "change of state/input" timer would be more effective.

I could easily program a macro to press a different button every 4 minutes and 59 seconds.

This is true, however, something tells me that not many people would think about macro'ing.

At least I don't think many people would...

[Agentred]

problem : someone can put a weight on their W key and have their person move forward into a corner all night

Good point...perhaps a "change of state/input" timer would be more effective.

I could easily program a macro to press a different button every 4 minutes and 59 seconds.

This is true, however, something tells me that not many people would think about macro'ing.

At least I don't think many people would...

Well, if found marching and un responsive, you could be banned. That would deter people.

[_b3ast_]

*Adding to Cons*

What if another player is alongside an afk player, but he/she is currently working with mobs (breeding, etc.). If the afk player disconnects, then all mobs around would be disconnected, thereby unfairly despawning and active player's mobs.

[Keyhen]

To put it simply:

No.

[The-Jack-DeCk]

To put it simply:

No.

I goin ta mak yu sum cookys nau forr yor birfday.

[leoht_reaver]

The Idea:
I propose adding a 5-minute AFK timer to MineRealm. If a player goes inactive for 5+ minutes he would be automatically disconnected, and all mobs within 20 meters of the player get despawned.

This would replace the current mob-nerfing modification.

Pro's:
This would be a more effective lag deterent than the current mob-nerf. While preventing players from gathering huge swams of mobs using spawners, an afk timer would also save the server all bandwidth, memory and proccessing needed to maintain afk players.

Players would once again be able to run meaningful animal farms/ranches and/or get swarmed by a horde of random mobs. This would bring the server closer to the vanilla gameplay most of us desire, without precluding near-vanilla modifications such as realms and countries.

Con's
Irresponsible players would still be able to create rediculous animal swarms. Though a small group of players <cough-me-included-cough> enjoy actively hunting and destroying animal hordes, we might miss some.

no...

[eah]

Macroing? Gosh, you guys have words for everything.

[CirJohn]

No.

Why? An opinion with no reasoning behind it is worthless.

[mitch1423]

No.

Why? An opinion with no reasoning behind it is worthless.

Agreed.

Also we didn't invent the word macroing its been around for a while.

[vsniney]

This sounds like a great idea. Many other games have idle timeouts, why not Minecraft?