A very simple thought: When doing more long-form in-depth paragraph back and forth RP with someone it’s quite easy to hit the 10 minute idle timeout consistently. Just taking 5-7 minutes between replies is already enough to cause it to trigger sometimes.
The suggestion is that actively editing the command input box, maybe with some minimum amount of text already there - 100 characters or something, should cause the player currently busy writing to not be marked idle (yellow). This would have a two-fold benefit:
- The player writing the message does not get pressured into wrapping up in haste or erasing to send an OOC ping to let the other player know they’re still writing.
- The player waiting for the response can trust a bit more that their partner is actually writing something and hasn’t gone actually idle, so they don’t need to start getting worried quite so soon.
Just touching the box should probably not un-idle an already idled player since it might be an accident, but it should keep a player from being turned idle.