What is considered "afk"?

[Bobcat Brown]

If I happen to have 3 fisherman on my boat fishing....do I have to have all screens partly showing (like the journal)? Or can I simply minimize 2 and watch over all 3 with one character?

[Batlin]

"afk" means "away from keyboard". Since you are there I don't think it can be called afk.

Off topic:
I wouldn't fish like that. Resources on this server are chunk based. One chunk is a group of 8x8 tiles. So your 3 fishermen should target 3 unique chunks to be effective.

[Bobcat Brown]

what would be different by doing 3 seperate boats/spots than all 3 on one? The fish will stop biting 3x faster, so I'm still going to be fishing up 3x the MIBs...

[WiseOne]

You can have one fisherman casting in front of the boat and one from each side targeting 3 different 8x8 spots.

*Note

Although AFK means away from keyboard the rule is really about unattended resource gathering. So, even if you are at your keyboard but not attending to the UO screen (browsing, watching movies, playing another game, etc.) you could get jailed and/or banned.

As a rule, if a GM comes across your boat they will send you alerts for a few minutes to get your attention. If you do not respond in the allocated time you will be considered in breach of shard policy and liable to be punished.

[Bobcat Brown]

Thanks Wise One. I understand that...which is why I'm asking if I need to watch all 3 screens or just one...since on one screen I'm still watching over my other characters..just not the journal etc.

[Jill Stihl]

I've been told that GMs only appear to the character they wish to interact with, so only having one fisher's screen visible is not going to alert you to the GM on the boat about to jail one of your other fishers.

After being told this (by someone on here, forget who but they seemed to know their stuff) I always ensure all fisher's journals are in view, not been in trouble yet.

[Kriav]

It is funny.

Anytime I am in town, If I need to be on the phone or bathroom I "hide" somewhere. Always one or more ppl come very close like next to me. as soon as I move they leave. even tho I am no where near a vendor or whatever.

I look like I am afk

[applejack]

I've been told that GMs only appear to the character they wish to interact with, so only having one fisher's screen visible is not going to alert you to the GM on the boat about to jail one of your other fishers.

After being told this (by someone on here, forget who but they seemed to know their stuff) I always ensure all fisher's journals are in view, not been in trouble yet.

I am skeptical of this simply because every time I've pages for afk fishing I've seen the GM show, ask them questions, then make them disappear. Seen this at least 5 or 6 times since I've been here.

[Light Shade]

I've been told that GMs only appear to the character they wish to interact with, so only having one fisher's screen visible is not going to alert you to the GM on the boat about to jail one of your other fishers.

After being told this (by someone on here, forget who but they seemed to know their stuff) I always ensure all fisher's journals are in view, not been in trouble yet.

I am skeptical of this simply because every time I've pages for afk fishing I've seen the GM show, ask them questions, then make them disappear. Seen this at least 5 or 6 times since I've been here.

They do not always show to everyone. I paged on an AFK'er the other day and the guy went poof and the GM PM'd me and said thanks. I never saw the GM.

[Blaise]

Haha LS, yeah I paged about an AFK lumberjack once and had similar results.

[applejack]

Interesting. I'd be disappointed if that happened to me. I love watching GM PWN. I would logically assume that if a GM was popping in on a boat with three toons on it to say 'hello?' he would make himself visible to all parties on the boat. Haven't fished in ages but I only ever had one client visible. Perhaps a risky assumption but it seems totally reasonable to me.

[Atraxi]

Interesting. I'd be disappointed if that happened to me. I love watching GM PWN. I would logically assume that if a GM was popping in on a boat with three toons on it to say 'hello?' he would make himself visible to all parties on the boat. Haven't fished in ages but I only ever had one client visible. Perhaps a risky assumption but it seems totally reasonable to me.

Whenever I go fishing like that, with 3 fishers on one boat, I'll send a page saying that I am doing so and I'll list the 3 characters names that are all me, just to make sure they understand that just because I might not be watching the exact character that they appear to, I'm still there.

They always seem to understand.

[Hemperor]

You can have one fisherman casting in front of the boat and one from each side targeting 3 different 8x8 spots.

*Note

Although AFK means away from keyboard the rule is really about unattended resource gathering. So, even if you are at your keyboard but not attending to the UO screen (browsing, watching movies, playing another game, etc.) you could get jailed and/or banned.

As a rule, if a GM comes across your boat they will send you alerts for a few minutes to get your attention. If you do not respond in the allocated time you will be considered in breach of shard policy and liable to be punished.

Few minutes... I would think 15-20 seconds would be plenty.

[The Real Sandro]

Haha LS, yeah I paged about an AFK lumberjack once and had similar results.

They do not always show to everyone. I paged on an AFK'er the other day and the guy went poof and the GM PM'd me and said thanks. I never saw the GM.

I have a really good feeling none of your peers liked you guys growing up.

[Chaos]

A GM can unhide to which everyone can see them or they can vis to one or more chars, at any time and only players listed on their vis list will be able to see them.