IRE Asks: What Type of AFKer Are You?

Main Street chillin' with the guards, shield and rebounding up, or cozied up in my favorite journal

I sometimes burrow if it's just going to be for a short time.

Beds are your friend. Until the key sigil to your bedroom decays and you accidentally leave the door open.

Been proudly AFK'ing since 1998.

Can't do it any longer but I used to tellsoff, return to haven, phase, and then browse through youtube.

I mean..uh...doing serious IG work. Yes, that.

Journals.... sometimes

I just rent a room! /idlebeard

I work while I play, and vice versa, so I tend to spend the bulk of my time in a half-alert state.  If I'm going to be moving around the house, fixing dinner and whatnot, but not so engaged in any one activity that it requires full attention, then I'll idle in my house, on a ship, or someplace else I'm not easily accessible.  

I very rarely go afk completely... Usually its because I'm fixing some trigger, or get distracted looking at something online. But the rare time I do step away I find some task that will keep me busy like inkmilling or stand somewhere with some guards even then it never for long

Normally I find somewhere that is non-prismable or sorts 

I either journal or hide in a bed, I prefer that so I don't lose my defences

I tend to go into a sort of pseudo-afkness, while I work on stuff and talk to people via various clans and such

I cast sandling

Recently I got myself into huge trouble with my city... somehow instead of getting logged off I stayed logged in without realizing in my house in the subdivisions... When I got back to realize this the whole city was in arms and I had been robbed of over 120K worth of stuff. Just one of those days where everything went perfectly wrong. Anyway I use my journal to AFK in usually and if I inscribe my tarots then I use my dads bed hehe...

I wish non prism rooms cost less thanb 200 credits!

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I hang with friends.

I earthmeld or rest in my coffin

As far as MKO goes, I definitely attempt to be in the estate if I need to go AFK. I've had to watch my baby brother now and then, and sometimes it's at a moment's notice, and I just have to cross my fingers, and run back to the comp when possible.  If I'm in Elvandar, it's easier to handle I just zone out at the Oak, but lately I try to keep in the estate, at least if I KNOW I will need to be afk for one reason or another, for any significant length of time.

I sometimes think I am somewhere relatively safe like my estate or with guards when I am infact on a road somewhere and I could be just standing there for two to three hours while taking notes from AB files and what not. I'll tab out for something random and end up staying there.

I log off when I have to be away. My laptop batteries don't last very long.

We can enter the news from anywhere in Aetolia nyah nyah!

Phasing! heh heh. And in a safe place. My character's Endurance regen > Phase drain. So it works for me!

I usually phase in Hashan when I need to go AFK. I can keep up phase for something around four IRL hours, but I generally log out when I need to be away for more than a few minutes.

Doesn't happen too often, I usually qq.

Only time I really ever go afk is if I take a slight snooze IRL. Some people are known to catch me during a nap, and poke me... alot >.>

I'll AFK if I have some type of manly task to do around the house. Like the dishes. Or cleaning. And I don't want to log out and lose all of my defs. Depending on how short notice, I might just go AFK in some "safe" place (which usually isn't safe at all) or I might bust out a journal or something.

I try not to be afk. Mhaldor doesn't like it very mcuh. If I am, I'll burrow, so that no one can do anything to me.

I often semi-AFK quite a bit for up to a minute at a time. I rarely do more than that.  It's not worth it, especially since it takes so little time to def up, compared to redoing an hour of hunting for xp or something.  When I do, I sometimes rely on deepshroud, but usually hang out with city guards.  There aren't too many people who want me dead.

oh it scares me so much forgetting to qq and coming back naked~!

if i've gotta go afk, i'll either follow a friend that i know i can trust, or i'll go sit phased on some guards.  my other character can fly or burrow, so when i'm on her, i'll do either of those, or go hide in a bed.

Real men stay logged in, get killed and lose millions of experience when they afk

journal

:)

I do, regardless of what's going on in-game, alt-tab at random for up to 5+mins at a time, cook dinner, etc... but my keyboard is always nearby, even if I'm not attentive!

I should also admit, before one of many who know me call me out on it... the closes to true 'afking' I do is the exact opposite! I have a delightful habit of becoming all-too familiar with my keyboard-pillow... and it's hard to guess what I'll be doing when that happens.

As for a more serious answer, I tend towards a hidden, locked, room inside an estate when I absolutely must be incoherent for a bit, and barring that trip, deepshroud on a rooftop in a lesser-traveled corner of wherever I am...

Often when I am sleeping or meditating (need to get that level 80!), I'll code or open a browser window, though.  When in doubt, log out.

journal!

I love Lusternia's manses because it's a nice place to afk: people can't see you normally and you can just lounge around pseudo-logged off, but you can still be there whenever something important happens.

I love AFK. Especially when my friends do it. Force can be so much fun!

Because of studies, I afk for half the time I manage to be around. I usually idle in my temple or on a ship with plank up. Hardly anyone I know comes around to use the ship anymore, so it practically becomes a shared ship with the owner. Temples because I always like to mess around with the things inside when I come back from afk.

Lusternia's manses are a good place to hide. People usually won't know you're around unless they scry you, and they usually 'get' that you're AFK if they find you're in a manse. Permissions can be set, so you're not going to get jumped while sitting around there. 

Normally it isn't intentional I'm just standing in a safe place and forget I'm logged in.  Intentional AFK I'll either just log out or use a letter/journal/org scroll.

AFK is not something I do, I've been robbed once or twice while afk, so that made me stop that rather quickly

I usually only AFK when using the DIR system (I LOVE that system) or sleeping. I have never been stolen from, beaten up, or dressed in women's clothing so far. I also sometimes AFK in the halls.

I get distracted sometimes... gets me killed.

errrrm? tags?

For quick emergencies, burrowing or editing.

I have AFK'd in different ways since actually starting to play years ago. Journals, standing in guard stacks, bed, ship, etc.

I will admit to a few times of idling, and falling asleep, a few times i've woken up and didn't miss anything, on the other hand I've woken up and character was dead and there had been a raid and I was asleep for it...whoops.

So from now on, if I start to get sleepy at all, I just log out.

relax in my manse

I rarely afk. The only time I'd do that is if I'm taking care of my cats

but never outside the city.

If it's going to be for less than five minutes, or if I'm still at my computer and just alt+tab'ing between a bunch of different things (while writing up ghelp scrolls, designing, or just giving another mud some attention), I just stay at our nexus or in the orgbix room. For anything else, I just hop into my manse, or log out altogether. Nothing to gain from being afk.

I don't always go AFK, but when I do, I prefer to use rooms where no violence can be done, like the aetherplex, portal of fate, Avechna's Peak, or Cave of Chaos.

when nature calls perhaps?

People care about afk these days?

I tend to use journal, less because of defenses than because I have to manually re-import all my aliases and triggers every time I log out and log back in. Gotta love Flash.

i journal or shadow a friend if im going to be gone a couple min, if its any longer i usually qq

mainly when sleeping IC, only for drinks, bathroom, smoke.. snacks.

anything major I quit or hide myself in letter editor

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I tend not to go AFK for any real reason, and usually when I do it's because I've passed out at the keyboard. I can't honestly remember how many times I've slept in the middle of nowhere or flying above Fish Street in Shallam for 15-30 minute spurts before waking up just before I idle out.

I will AFK constantly. Just about the only time I won't randomly wander away for 5-10 mins at a time is bashing, influencing, or doing a guild exam for someone. Then I limit it to 1-2 mins afk. I'll walk away even during conversations.

What I don't do is AFK for long periods of time. if I'm going to be intentionally gone for a long time, I will just qq and be done with it.

Burrowing is the best - you're totally safe, but can still see deathsights, which is nice because if something exciting happens I can notice and return.

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I like colours too.

I have an addiction...it started off just walking away from the screen at 4C in enorian, and I'd be back in a minute.  But it wasn't long before I'd walk away and bake a cake, or work a shift at work, and with the addition of a Haven, now Its hard not too just be afk all day every day, 24/7.... I don't think I can stop myself..

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Usually journaling or hanging out with friends when I accidentally distract myself with facebook. Umm, oops? Did I just admit that?

I usually just 'daydream' for a few moments whereever I happen to be, if I need less than five minutes. If I need more, I log out. Occasionally the daydreaming has consequences but usually they're fun to play with.

As I don't have a haven yet I'll AFK in my coffin mostly - it's quiet and doesn't put everything on hold like the news/editor systems.

Manses are the best place to do that, if you have one. I don't, so I sometimes afk a bit in the guildhall.

I go to the town center and go about my real life buisness, or I go to my room in my momma's manse..

manse man! Every time.

I AFK wherever I am. I don't normally have to worry about theft because, to be honest, no one steals from another person in Lusternia, and I'm not usually attacked if not by a city guard. I also have a timer set to check CW and GW every 10 minutes so that I avoid the timeout

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the words outta my mouth Toot!

I usually just burrow for small amounts of time, journal or log off if I'll be more than 30 minutes to an hour. I'm paranoid someone will dig me up, hehe.

Like everyone else, journal for me!

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I usually dont do the whole AFK thing but if I have to step away for a couple of minutes I use a journal to daydream, if I am going to be longer than that, I log out. There have been occassions I would use my bed for the same thing, it just depends on where I am at as what I will use.

Till I found out we ar enot allowed to go AFK in the glade of isolation :0

Or in my trusty journal

The phasing kind. 

I definitely go hide in my bedroom if I'm not with someone else. Otherwise, I just follow 'em and hope I don't die doing somethin stupid! Not usually gone for very long, though. Mostly bathroom breaks and the like.

I either log out, or go afk right where I stand because there's an urgent reason for me leaving.

I'll usually just log off. It's a pain to put up defenses but I never know just how long I'll be afk

In the end i just walk away if it wont be more then a minute of daydreaming, Otherwise i Quit out.

I generally just AFK wherever I happen to be standing. I don't usually worry too much about it. generally speaking I'm either at my nexus or standing in some hunting area or another that I recently cleared. my system keeps me alert if someone attacks or anything and I spare the screen a glance every couple of minutes, so there's not a whole lot of opportunity for something to go wrong. xD

I used to think I was the only one possibly exploiting a bug... But I hear a lot of people do it? I usually go AFK for up to 15 minutes in my journal, any longer and I'll quit. I just really don't like going away for 10 seconds, and coming back and having to defense up again. Especially as my defense list is quite long...

It is interesting to see all previous policies

If I'm seriously stepping away, I journal. If I'm like making food and talking to someone ICly and not doing something where I might die (raiding, hunting) I'll probably just sit on guards. If I'm not actively doing something ICly I'll probably phase sit on guards...

I like guards.

I'm the afk kind of afker.

Always try to avoid it.....too much aggrivation specially from Achea with obcessive thieves....I really despise even when i carry less then 20 gold there aggressive even when you're active to try take everything you have.  One person was so annoying in ashtan one time i was attacked by him when i kept running around, then got banned from the area BECAUSE I was defending myself ~.~  I just was depressed ashtan took the understandings of a liar because I was being robbed from someone over my own word.  However we move on.  Thems the breaks...there's little you can do when you live life of a rogue in a grove with no home or clan to really back you're side.  Just serve me right not to waste my time trying to protect myself inside of a city.

Insane concept right? :P

I'd be around so much just to trans Wildarrane!

Does that even exist!?

i try to do my other things when I'm not logged into the game.  More efficient al around that-a-way.

I'm a 'read the news' AFK-er if that counts as AFK than anything!

I sit at Centre Crossing in Cyrene if I'm going AFK for long periods of time. Sometimes I go AFK while following a friend.

Afk shielded, phased, in guards. Pretty damn safe.

Most of the time when I go afk I try to keep it short...like running to the bathroom while I'm out hunting I do sandling. When I know I'll be 10-20 minutes if not more I'll hide on my ship... I have a VERY short boarding list and captain list and most of the captains know I don't care if they take it out while i'm aboard...then there are the I am bored smoke breaks which typically happens with ship return.

AFK methods used:

Sandling

Ships

Journals

House/ Bed (when I had access to a bed)

Following a Friend

Sitting in a crowd.

Grove Seal/ sandling

Isolation

and probally many more but I try not too often, if I have to be gone longer than 30 minutes I log out.

Earthmelding works for me or haven

i usually ship return or burrow/journal, but only if it's brief. I just log out if i'm going to be away long.

I've also recently started using journal if I need to go AFK during raids.

I just go hide, normally.

I enjoy finding secret rooms that not all people know their existance and head back to one of them when I have to daydream.

In the Serenguard lodge, I'll sleep or meditate to regain endurance or willpower, while I AFK for a bit. I try not to do it in the world at large unless absolutely neccessary (which it can sometimes be!) 

When I'm afk I'm usually smoking. So I used to set Subu to smoke, with a series of timmers. Been a while since I've done that.

I mudsex afk

anytime

For the skillflex/power defs.

I usually go to a ship if I go AFK. I don't really understand why anyone would want a bed when they could have a ship. If my ship is unavailable I use my journal but it just doesn't feel as safe for some reason.

I AFK standing by a couple of Dragons. No one is going to mess with Dragons. Or I journal. Generally in the middle of an area I've been bashing in so when I come back, I get NPC jumped.

afking in bad places has resulted in some bad things for me. That's why journaling is the best.

A non-AFKer.

I'm one of the permanently logged in ones.

A very limited AFKer that checks constantly even when AFK.