If you've been to the docks in Velia or Hiedel, you probably know that AFK fishing is pretty popular. However, you may not realize that many of these people are after more than just fish. You see, Black Desert wants you online. All. The. Time.
Next time you're ready to walk away from the computer, you might want to consider minimizing BDO, instead of logging out.
Why?
Workers
If you have workers gathering resources or crafting, and you log out, they'll continue working until they finish their current task. However, they won't start a new task! If you have a lot of short tasks queued or a lot of workers with queued tasks, you may be missing out on a lot of worker time.
Farming
Did you know your crops only grow when you are logged in? That's right. When your character vanishes, your crops all go into stasis until you return.
Energy
This is probably the most obvious item on the list, but your character recovers energy much faster when they're logged in. Ten times faster, in fact.
Not only that, but you can put your character to rest in a bed to further increase your energy recovery. A bed bought with silver will boost your energy regen to twenty times the offline rate. A cash shop bed will grant you 30 times the offline rate.
Some people love the AFK features of Black Desert, and some people hate feeling obligated to be online all the time. Personally, I'm on the fence. It's nice to come back to a little extra money after being away from the game, but it also makes it feel wasteful to just log out at the end of a night, without bothering to set up a character fishing.
One final word of warning: if you do keep your character logged on all the time, be sure to at least switch characters once a day, or the game may not give you your 100 daily loyalty points. It's easy to forget about them when you don't have the icon blinking at the bottom of your screen.
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