[Grimm_Wolfe]

(07-21-2017, 02:19 PM)Mikemc Wrote: If they went AFK at a grinder, I say F-em. You're already at a freebies homeless handout center, you have the gull to be AFK as well? Why don't we just give players the /give item command already? Back in my day we worked for our iPads (NES for me). Mowing lawns, shoveling snow, cleaning the house.. it's disrespectful is what it is. Someone worked to build that machine, Creative or not, so that players could grab some helpful swag, and a bum has the where-with-all to play the victim card? AFK means Away From Keyboard, meaning you are not playing, meaning you get the same results as if you were offline.

Stand there, wait for your gruel, and be gracious it's even there.

This whole argument implies that the public grinder was not made to be AFK-capable, which most farms of this nature on the server are intended to be AFK'd at.  Also, given these farm-builders privately own these farms but allow public access, they may make whatever rules they deem fit; which includes rules on AFK etiquette and loot distribution.

The argument also implies that the use of AFK isn't a detriment to one's ability to play on the server.  A person using an AFK-farm is stuck in one spot to get a resource and not actually playing the game in a meaningful way, which takes time away from their ability to play.  If a person spends 30-min at an AFK-farm–and another players comes in at the 29th minute and clears the loot chests–does that not cause an issue where 30-min of waiting is just for nothing?  The 2nd player has not put any time into accruing that resource via an AFK-farm, yet they should get a free-pass?  A real-life equivalent would be similar to sitting in a waiting room for an hour for an object to be made, some random person coming in and not have to wait a second, and then you're told to wait another hour because that person took your object because reasons.  Any average person would be understandably upset at this.

You may not agree with the rationale behind it but the rule was deemed necessary by the farms' owners for the sake of fairness.