There have been many suggestions on how to deal with an afk player and suggestions for them. Mostly people ask for a kick button. Some suggest button input while in brig. Honestly you should bring them with a random button input at random intervals when they been in the brig too long. This is because some of the players have auto button use. Which means the program automatically sends signals to the game as if buttons are being pushed or the rubber band their controller to keep the input. So a random button input at random intervals after the player was brig for x amount of time would force the player to be present at all times turning this afk player into a toxic player.
Now I do understand people have things they have to deal with outside of the game so this suggestion is for those that been briged.
The next suggestion is for those that need to tend to real life matters like their kids or kids having to go eat. On several occasions I had a crewmate go before we could turn in because they would have been afk far to long. Often we allowed them to go afk so they can get rewarded as well. I'm suggesting a "take a break" button for players that half to go afk. This would make the players character become an NPC controlled character while the players afk. This allows some help instead of a dead weight crewmate just sitting there. The idle character would only repair the ship and heal itself but it's better than them just sitting there. While they are idle there name will show they are idle with (Idle) right before there name to identify so afk players can't abuse it as much.
