This is AWESOME.

[Marian]

I was logged in and typing a long comment in the big box (meant to log out again before posting it) when all of a sudden a new event popped up!

Was this just added? It's the coolest thing ever, but... I really need to know if it eats minutes or not when it 'refreshes' or whatever it does, because staying online while I type longer posts is something I do a lot. Sometimes I even walk away for awhile. (It's not a big deal, I guess I can just log out and then use the back button, but I still need to know if I should start getting into that habit or not.)

[marol]

This does not eat minutes. However if you spend a while watching events and do something else than logging out your minutes will be substracted.

It is available to users who have Java enabled (and ActiveX when using IE).

[Jos Elkink]

It's disabled again, due to some bug that I can't figure out. But yes, very soon this should be a standard feature.

Note that the timelimit thingy was already changed so that a max of 5 minutes can be deduced at once. So you can leave your events page open, see all that's happening, and the most severe punishment for then doing something is 5 min deduced ...

[Chris Johnson]

Note that the timelimit thingy was already changed so that a max of 5 minutes can be deduced at once. So you can leave your events page open, see all that's happening, and the most severe punishment for then doing something is 5 min deduced ...

Only if the the previous page viewed was the players page - thats fine if you just idle in events direct from the player page, but click on any other after accessing a character and timing is normal.

EDIT: Actually it's not fine to idle in the events page - The 5 minutes max is just for the time idling on the players page.

[marol]

And it's worth to notice that this feature is only available to English language due to character encoding issue.

[Jos Elkink]

Hmm, I was going to implement and then make a nice announcement but now all info starts to trickle in ...

And Chris, can we not do that change throughout the code rather than only on the player page?

[Elros]

Yeah I was wondering about the 5 minute thing too, because I was looking through the object database yesterday for a while trying to get ideas for certain things, and then when I went back to the player page it only deducted 5 min. even though I was logged in for about 20 min.

[Kreed]

Jos did this idea come from Digg spy or was it something you were already working on?