MArcomage

Usually I find auto-loggers to be really annoying, but now that I am having computer troubles, I find that after a crash I end up having the account logged in but me not there. To the likely annoyance of all those I am playing against. So I was wondering if a somewhat long auto-logout could be instituted. About 20 minutes maybe.

i'm against it. 'cause it is annoying ;)

but if each player can choose on his/her own (by clicking a box in settings) if autologout works for him/her, then there is no problem.

Let me explain how it works. Each time you make some action in our system (push some button), the current timestamp is stored as "last known action" made by a player. This data is used to evaluate if the player is on-line, off-line, not interested or dead. You don't need to logout to let the system know that you are no longer on-line.

When you don't log out properly, you just loose the option to see new posts/messages correctly. But this really doesn't bother other players.

Session timeout is currently set to 7 days, i.e. if you log in and don't make an action for more then 7 days, the system will make you log in again, if an action is made.

Does logging out immediately cause you to appear as offline to other players, or are you still shown as online until a few minutes pass?

The definition of beeing on-line is following: Last known action took place in less then 10 minutes. So, in other words, the system needs 10 minutes to realize that you are no longer on-line.

System must not rely on the "logging out event", when calculating on-line status, becuase logging out is not mandatory.