It strikes me, that very many chars get said `hello` to by some random passing stranger, but there's no one at home.
I have witnessed a few assuming ignorance, which is ridiculous, i agree. but there we have it.
There are many reason to sit a character in the game and go afk, in WO you can run more than one window and have more than one char so this happens alot.
The suggestion;
Maybe change the colour of our name when afk, or have an AFK tag sit next to it.
one argument against this is that `most people don't bother with the afk command`.. well of course they don't, it doesn't affect local.