Idle timeout

[CaptainBlagbird]

How long can you be idle until you get kicked from the game? Also is it possible that this time is influenced by some factors?

I'm asking this because I was just idle for 22+ minutes. I think normally I was kicked after like 10 minutes or so. I know that it was more than 22 minutes because when I came back I had a group invite pending and checked how long ago it was sent with

/script d(GetGroupInviteInfo())

which returned 1335197.

Did maybe the pending invite prevent me from getting kicked, did ZOS rise the time or do I just have an even more terrible sense of time while coding than I thought?

PS: I was in the bank (not in any dialog/menu); ESO was not the active window; Computer was locked.

[sirinsidiator]

While making the idle timer for sidTools I did a few tests, but soon gave up because it is a pain to always wait for the timeout to happen. The results where not really conclusive, sometimes I got dropped after around 15 minutes and sometimes I stayed connected without a kick in sight.

There also seem to be some API functions that prevent the timeout from happening.

[Ayantir]

Timer is 15 min, it changed recently on login screen as far I know, but did'n't looked at it (i'm a real afker and I'm kicked ~10x/day from game)

If you were not disconnected, that was because you receive a buff which unsheate your weapons. It happens frequently.

And yes there is some functions which prevent you to being kicked because they send data to server. that's the condition. If you're curious enought you'll find which ones. But to @All, please don't write an anti kick please. It's a waste of lot of important things.

[CaptainBlagbird]

Thanks for the answers

Originally Posted by Ayantir buff which unsheate your weapons. It happens frequently.

Yeah, that probably was the reason, didn't know that this also is enough to reset the timer.

Originally Posted by Ayantir And yes there is some functions which prevent you to being kicked because they send data to server. that's the condition. If you're curious enought you'll find which ones. But to @All, please don't write an anti kick please. It's a waste of lot of important things.

Check out my little add-on I hacked together: Anti-Idle

[Baertram]

Your video is not available to play in germany

[QuadroTony]

idle time on the character selectino screen was changed in Orsinium
now it is like 5 min only

in game stayed the same

btw the real anti-kick addon will be nice

[CaptainBlagbird]

Originally Posted by Baertram Your video is not available to play in germany

Damn, copyright protects you from Rick Ashley

Originally Posted by QuadroTony btw the real anti-kick addon will be nice

I didn't actually make one

Originally Posted by Ayantir But to @All, please don't write an anti kick please. It's a waste of lot of important things.

Would it be against the ZOS rules when we would use such an add-on?