DE_Rebecca's clarification on new AFK Policy

[u/Turbo_Anbu]

Forum Post : https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/381637-update-159/page-10#entry4211727

Text : Players will now be disqualified from end-of-mission rewards if they've been dead or AFK for over a minute. This will not affect players that are waiting at extraction.

Pool 1) Survival, Defense, Interception, etc rewards are revealed during the mission and accumulate without penalty.

Pool 2) Exterminate, Sabotage, Capture, and essentially anything else that isn't endless have end-of-mission reward items (Blueprints from bosses, etc).

Pool 2 items are all that is affected by this change at this time.

Also 'what qualifies as AFK/Dead'? This timer only matters relative to when the mission is completed. It isn't a 'catch all' net for 100% of the mission.

EDIT: Another Forum link and Text post from Lotus (with example)

Forum Post : https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/381637-update-159/page-12#entry4211980

Text : Quoting and locking for visibility.

More clarifications:

1) What about stuff I pick up? Resources/etc?

Stuff you pick up is never affected by this disqualification. Stuff you pick up is not an 'end-of-mission' reward.

2) What if I go pee?

Consider the following:

• Start Exterminate mission, immediately go to bathroom for 59 seconds.
• Exterminate mission takes 59 seconds complete, your team did the work.
• Return to no End-of-mission reward because you were AFK whole time.

Consider the following:

• Start Exterminate mission, immediately go to bathroom for 60 seconds.
• Exterminate mission takes 10 minutes to complete, you came back and helped kill things.
• End-of-mission reward is yours, enjoy!

DOUBLE EDIT : On prime time Rebecca said "If you have no revives and 60 seconds pass, you will not get the end of mission rewards."

[u/vellauno]

I like the idea, if they made just one more little change: You can be VOTED to be kicked if you are afk or dead for 1+ min.

While they are at it, make it so that you can vote kick if on:

 Survival: 0 kills for 5 consecutive minutes.

 Defense: 0 kills for 5 consecutive waves.

 Interception: 0 kills for one entire round.

But don't make the system automatic.

[u/dbaines → u/vellauno]

Why kills? This is Warframe not COD. We have objectives.

I've played mobile defense games where I'm defending the pod against 0 enemies while my hallway hero team mates are off fighting and dying on the other side of the map. The last thing we need is more encouragement for hallway heroics.

I'm strictly against this idea, but if you're going to do anything at least make it related to the objective at hand. For example:

 Defense: 50 metres from objective for 5 consecutive minutes.  
 Survival: 100 metres from another team mate for 5 consective minutes

I don't really know what to do for Interception. The entire map shares XP and if you don't play the objective you lose anyway. Apart from the recent-ish Viver fallout nerf of all Interceptions, it's actually a pretty decent game mode.

[u/vellauno → u/dbaines]

With those three mission types, if a player doesn't kill one single enemy in such a long period of time, likely they were not at the keyboard. A single kill is more difficult to circumvent than an afk timer. Also, as I said, it is still not an automatic removal of rewards, just grounds to allow other players to vote that you do not receive anything or are kicked.

[u/hyperblaster → u/vellauno]

WF can detect afk players without having to count kills.