Feedback:User/Sawyer Einherjar/AFK message
AFK message | |
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| User | Sawyer Einherjar |
| Categories | Player interaction |
It would be great if we are given the possiblity to leave an away from keyboard (AFK) message. This message will then be shown when some one wishpers this person. Because now most of the time when you see a guildy/friend online with the status away you'll have no idea on how long they will remain afk. Therefor if you can write /afk <message> (say about ~10 words long) it will help out a lot.
Example: player A writes /afk toilet. This will lead to status of player A set to afk/away with the message toilet. Now player B comes online and sees his friend player A online but on afk status. After wispering hello to A he now knows that player A is only afk for the toilet and will return shortly.
When this comes in handy: as already shown in the above example. This comes in handy if you are planning to do something massive with your guildies (dungeon or raid or whatever massive there is to do in GW2), However you see your best friend in the guild is on afk/away (and ofc you want him with you in the party). Now in gw 1 you have no idea how long that person is gonna be afk, but if he was able to leave a message you can wisper him to find out that he's either gone to the toilet or making homework or back in 10 minutes etc. In which cases you can now judge that you only have to wait 10 minutes before your friend comes back or that he's making homework and thus you know you should start with the other guildies instead of waiting aimlessly for your friend to come back after maybe 2 hours after which it's time for you to log off again.
This could as well work when you can write that message in a little box in the friendsmenu next to your status. (just like how you can write a little message in the search party menu).
The message shown when whipering a afk person could be much like how it is now with the additional text. Player may not respond because his status is set to afk <message by player>.
To cancel this message you have to write /afk again or /back or put status on online again in the friend menu for example
