The AFK Timer: Crafting, Black Jack and RP

[Snowmane]

So I have had this problem both while crafting armors and playing black jack in Jimmy's. Both are processes that can take a long time without the player moving. Both get totally FUBR'd when the afk timer comes around. I hate winning a hand of blackjack then getting sent to AFK before I can collect my winnings! I also hate spending all this time trying to build a custom suit of armor and tweak the colors only to lose the design when I get moved to AFK!

Would it be possible to implement some sort flag to both these activities that let's the AFK script know that the user is doing something? Or at the very least could the AFK script send a warning to the player that if they don't move in say 60 seconds, they will be transitioned to the AFK area? A warning could also help people RP'ing not to disappear in the middle of RP and then reappear because they stood in the same place for a while.

[Fezzik]

A hit of one of the wads keys once in a while

[Memnoch1962]

A hit of one of the wads keys once in a while

Yep, thats what I have to to do during anything taking a lot of time like crafting. WASD keys to slightly move and apparantly the AFK counter starts all over again. But it would be nice if that wasnt necessary, its easy to get caught up and lose track of time.

[Snowmane]

From what I have seen, I am pretty sure that the AFK script is on a timer and it simply grabs your location, then the next time it is executed it checks your current location versus your previous one. (Note that in NWN script a location is a position and heading, so it should be enough to simply rotate in place if my assumption is correct).

This is particularly problematic when playing blackjack as the blackjack script actually sets your location as part of its conversation script at the beginning of each hand. I would just like a warning that tells me "Hey stupid, you have been caught up in whatever it is your doing for a long time and you better move or your going to AFK land"

[GodBeastX]

It can be done. There is a function call that just updates AFK. Just needs to be put in the scripts the table is using.