Automated Responses

Suggestion Type:
Forum/FGunZ/Other


Suggestion Title:
Automated Responses


Suggestion Description:
Well, I regularly get whispers when I go afk of "help" or "you there?" or "come check this player out please", and most of the time this happens when I go AFK in the lobby/rooms, and I regularly have to either wait for them to return or see if their still available by checking on the CP. It would be interesting if we could have some sort of automated response if we AFK OR we can either set one up ourselves.

It could be like "Thanks for contacting me - but I'm currently unavailable. If you need to report a bug/player/issue, please do so on the forums."

At least instead of allowing members to think we're ignoring them, it tells them that we're not there at the time.
We could also create a command for it, similar to how we have the lobby chat command, it could be something like /admin_unavailable or /admin_available.

Just log out if you're gonna go afk.

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Originally Posted by Notorious

Just log out if you're gonna go afk.

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I dislike the fact of having to go AFK for 20 minutes and just log out to do so.

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Originally Posted by Zachary

I dislike the fact of having to go AFK for 20 minutes and just log out to do so.

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Habla ingles?

It takes a whole 2 seconds to log out and 10 seconds to log back in.

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Originally Posted by Notorious

Habla ingles?

It takes a whole 2 seconds to log out and 10 seconds to log back in.

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I close the game though, I never just sit it at the login screen.
I see plenty of people go AFK (staff wise) in the lobby and I think it would be benefical towards members who need/request help and think we're ignoring them.

trying to find solutions for problems that arent there
as noto said, just log out

even if that command is there you'll probably have it on even when youre not afk

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Originally Posted by Zachary

I go AFK in the rooms

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you are the problem

just hide or go to character screen

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Originally Posted by ZAIN

you are the problem

just hide or go to character screen

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Using /hide still shows us on the /stafflist (which shows all staff members online).

Players will think u trollin so they keep whispering u to to troll u :o.o
^ thats what i was gonna do

do you mean when somebody whispers you then he gets an automated message like, i'm afk at the moment? if so, then it should be added for every player, not only for staff so people can also write their automated message when they go afk or anything else.
this can be done by a command as you mentioned above, i remember playing other gunz server and there was exactly something like that

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Originally Posted by Notorious

Just log out if you're gonna go afk.

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this :B

I support, but allow players to use that too via a command, such as /afk or smthn

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Originally Posted by Bunny

I support, but allow players to use that too via a command, such as /afk or smthn

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Yeah no.
This is more of a staff-related suggestion but since we don't have a staff suggestion thread... well.
This is related more so to the idea of help and players seeking help from staff members, not about the entire "afk" idea.

Im supprtting the idea
But i mean there must be 2/3 gms at the same time

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Originally Posted by Bunny

but allow players to use that too via a command, such as /afk or smthn

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Nay. When a staff member goes AFK, that causes an issue because if someone needs to report something urgent and it needs attention immediately, they won't know if the staff member is there or not. But if you're just trying to verify if a friend is AFK or not, I don't see what could be so urgent/can't wait until the friend relogs that it requires the average player have a separate AFK command.


I like the idea of the OP though. Maybe set it up as like a drop down menu in the options that gives staff a choice of Available or AFK. If they choose AFK, when players try to contact the staff member it'll says something like, "Your counterpart is AFK," similar to "Your counterpart has rejected whispers" when someone rejects whispers.

If people whispered you and you didn't reply them, doesn't that already show that you are currently unavailable? You don't need an automated response to do that.
So now the problem: YOU want to afk => but YOU don't want to ignore whispers while YOU afk => log out of gunz? => too lazy to spend 1 minute to login to gunz after that => so YOU came to forum to ask people to solve a problem that stems from you being too lazy to log out of gunz => the problem is YOU. nuffsaidbye.

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Originally Posted by Opeth

do you mean when somebody whispers you then he gets an automated message like, i'm afk at the moment? if so, then it should be added for every player, not only for staff so people can also write their automated message when they go afk or anything else.
this can be done by a command as you mentioned above, i remember playing other gunz server and there was exactly something like that

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i agree with this that it should be added for every player IF it gets added

offtopic: im shocked that opeth can be serious

Seems a bit of an unnecessary addition. Just don't AFK or logout if you have to go for a little while...