Skyblock should add a datapack or make it themselfs that makes it so ones a person has not moved for 5 minutes get a faded name while pressing tab. You can see an example of this on the hermitcraft server and i think it would be a very cool new feature to skyblock. if skyblock developers aren't into making this themselfs there are datapacks that do it for you. Please keep this in mind it would be an awesome feature!

 

Not a bad idea, I can see how this can be useful in many situations support. But also what about the people that don’t fit on the tab when the server gets full

 

Actually proper afk detection is not that easy. There will be a lot of peeps that are afk mining and will show up as not afk and still get messaged/ what ever


EDIT:

maby a command like /afk can tell every1 that u wont respond to anything
that would be clear

 

Cool I guess but not needed as it's the risk of more lag even though it seems not big

 

I like this idea

 

The server doesn't get full very often, right? I can't be sure I live in England, so time zones... If the server did get full though I guess there would be a problem... maybe the smart devs could figure out with this plan lol.

I really don't think it would cause any lag at all but maybe I'm wrong. It just didn't seem like it would be something that would cause server lag.

yeah maybe... I'm no server expert or anything but I believe you can add data packs to servers and there a data pack that detects afk for you! (=

 

Never know they think the marrage pl causes lag

 

As far as I know that's what mods use to say '* [Mod] ThePilous_ is now afk'.

Datapacks are 1.13+.

 

They removed /afk as people spammed (I believe).
But if the /afk was introduced where it wasn't like the Mod one (where it announces in chat) and instead we just get the notification "This user is AFK and may not respond to your message" when /msg-ing them is something I'd support.

 

Support, I like this idea.

Either something where after 5-10 minutes of not moving it automatically pings back the "this user is AFK" message to anyone trying to contact (but without announcing the player is AFK in chat), or the addition of the faded name in tab would be good.

 

Support and bump

 

Support. I'm a huge fan of this idea. It would make AFK detection a lot easier.

 

Thank you for the supports and bumps guys, this post was a while back...

 

No matter - gravedigging is allowed on suggestions.

Anyhow support. There is TrauPho's skyblock mod, which has /tafk, and this automatically replies to someone when you get a /msg saying that you're afk. This probably won't be introduced for this reason, but there are a lot of vanilla/semi-vanilla players on here that don't like modded minecraft.

 

I didn't know this could be added through datapack.

Support, even though the server could get some bad rep by displaying how much of its playerbase is afk/alts.

 

Holy gravedig, I know it's allowed but 3+ years is crazy.

Anyways, I think this is a pretty cool suggestion and I would like to see it implemented

 

It sounds like a cool idea as long as it doesn't cause more lag(I have zero idea what causes server-side lag if anyone wants to explain), although I am afraid new players who see the amount of AFK people may be scared off.

 

If the AFK detection is stupidly complicated then it may become responsible for some lag. The devs should be competent enough to put a reasonable system in place.

 

pretty sure there's already things inside Essentials that can do this

however

i was bored and wrote psuedocode for this plugin

this would be perfect! however when you're running the code for every single player online, is it really optimised?

#check if players are moving

def function
if moving
i=0
return false
if not moving
i=i+1
if i => 10
return true

#run afk banner
def afk_banner
sets color to half the rgb value (darken, as opacity isn't part of text colors in minecraft)

start clock(ticks)
every 1200 ticks run function
if function = true,
do afk_banner

 

That would lighten it, wouldn't it? FFFFFF is the highest but also the brightest