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Subject: Away. From. Ktarler. (AFK)

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Who thinks, that in the pause menu, you should have an option to go AFK? Like, when you select it, it'll instanly lock your player and remove him from the map, but still keep the score, untill you return and deactivate the option. It HAS to have this option. And don't tell me that you not gona go to the toilet for a week when you first get halo 2. You bound to chuch a toilet break in sometime.

[Edited on 7/1/2004 2:39:19 AM]

  • 07.01.2004 2:38 AM PDT
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Well it would stop me getting shot constantly like when i have to go to the loo playing Halo PC and then people going "you suck!" even though i don't and some git got all his kills killing me during my temporary absence.
So it has the potential to be a good idea, not bad littlerat

  • 07.01.2004 2:41 AM PDT

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for some reason i seem to get all my good ideas at this time. When not many people are on.

  • 07.01.2004 2:42 AM PDT
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The only downside is people may exploit it when they're getting shot to avoid death, or hide in the flag room till it's clear etc...

But it's a good idea, and i'm sure they could work around people using it in the wrong way, like not letting them see what's happening while they're AFK

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  • 07.01.2004 3:06 AM PDT

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Perhaps to use this option you die, lose a point and can respawn at your base when you get back. That way you cant cheat it by escaping fire but sadly must lose a life.

Its harsh but fair.

  • 07.01.2004 3:14 AM PDT
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well i'd rather die once and lose one point than the enemy gaining 20

  • 07.01.2004 3:15 AM PDT

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Exactly. I'm chuffed with my (building on anothers idea) idea :D

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  • 07.01.2004 3:22 AM PDT

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And i'll just rebuild that idead

How about you just keep the same health status. eg. if your shields are at 25%, and you afk at that, the ncome back, they should still be 25%. But with that, you would have to stay in the same spot, not spawn back at base.

And the loseing one point idea and spawning back at your base isn't such a good idea either. What if you needed to get back to base in a huryy. I know that sometimes in halo PC, if i needed to get back to base, i'd committe suicide. But then you'd have the spawn time. if you had this enabled, you could do that without the spawn time. And that's technically committing suicide, exept cheating.

  • 07.01.2004 3:28 AM PDT

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Well what if you had to be away atleast 10 seconds and couldnt turn off the afk until 10 seconds had elapsed?

and the first thing you said wouldnt work because you could do that when youre being shot at effectively prevent your self from dieing...Then turn it off once the enemies have gone somewhere else.

  • 07.01.2004 3:35 AM PDT
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Cant go afk until your standing still with full health.. that means you arent using it to get out of a gunfight.. I doubt they'll include this feature. Go to the bathroom BEFORE you start a match, and if some unforseen event comes up when playing.. tough.

  • 07.01.2004 4:08 AM PDT

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I really don't see how hard it would be to put it in now. it wouldn't require that much code. even i could program that, as long as they told me which variable was what

  • 07.01.2004 4:12 AM PDT
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They could make it so that when you exit the mode, it will take like 10-15 seconds before you actually leave it

  • 07.01.2004 4:49 AM PDT
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it should be that you can only go afk when your dead already so it wouldnt effect your score.

  • 07.01.2004 5:25 AM PDT
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maybe they could do it like counterstrike, you select the 'Spectator' team, die, but when you come back you can select which team you want again. although then you get ship jumpers in the middle of a game who switch to the winning side.

  • 07.01.2004 7:02 AM PDT
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yeah, have it so when you die, during the respawn waiting time, you can choose, "AFK" mode, or some such, and it just prevents you from respawning, when you hit resume, or whatever it would be, you have just resume the respawn timer, and then respawn.

So with my version...

Hitting thr AFK thing, can only be done when dead, all this does, is pause the respawn timer, at whatever number it was on. When you resume, it just resumes the timer, if in a team game, the death cam, only follows friends around, so you cant get a sneak peak at what opponents are doing in the game!

  • 07.01.2004 7:14 AM PDT