Player.Idled not working?

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#1

I have been using the code below, and after being Idle and not on the Roblox window for well over 5 minutes, it still has not printed anything. Am I doing something wrong?

local player = game.Players:WaitForChild("Volieb")
player.Idled:Connect(function(seconds)
	print("Time: "..seconds)
end)

Note: I am not doing this in Roblox Studio, I am doing it via the Roblox client.

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#2

I feel like this might just come down to the case that Idled is unreliable to be using. Luckily, there is a way to keep track of it the player is Idle by keeping track of their inputs via UserInputService.

local idle = false
local timer  = 0
UIS.InputEnded:Connect(function()
      idle = true
      while wait(1) do
            timer += 1
            if not idle then
               break
            end
            if timer >= 180 then
               localPlayer:Kick("Been afk for 3 minutes")
               break
            end
      end
end)
UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function()
      idle = false
      timer = 0
end)

Probably more friendlier ways to handle this than through a while loop, but you can see the basic principles.

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#3

Well, I wouldn’t want to handle it throught the client. I am making this for a hotel game, and I am tyring to kick staff if they go AFK for over a certain amount of time, due to people staying AFK just to have their activity boosted. So, this could be easily bypassed since it is on the client.

#4

Idled probably would be open to the same flaws. I would imagine setting up a macro to emulate a button press would fool both systems.

#5

I just tested it in studio, with both a server and local script. Only the local script picked up that the client was idle for 2 minutes.

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#6

Gottya, I guess I will just use Idled but through the client. I don’t think it is that big of a deal if someone bypasses it somehow. Thank you for your help!

#7

You could check if there is no input coming from the player for a certain amount of time and then kick them.

#8

You could do this by starting a countdown everytime there is no input on the client via a local script and resetting the countdown everytime the presses anything on their keyboard or moves their mouse, the only way to get around this would be using an exploit, which I assume your "workers’ would not use.

#9

The Question is what is considered as an Input if its for Example a Clicking game and the Player has an Autoclicker. Is it Considered as an Input!

And also i have been Looking for AFK Kick Prevention. Does anybody have something on that Topic???

#10

Add more complexity to your game, this seems more like bad game design if the game is just a clicker game.