Well, actually about hte auto-afk thing. It sucks. It is just pointless in the way it is.
I mean.. Imagine you have to leave the room, as I said before, for a couple of seconds, and you know that nothing bad will happen, as either you are just ecoing, or your units are on the way to teh front and will take a minut to get there, or you are actually regruping/repairing a bit away from front, or whatever. Anyway, you are sure taht u can safely leave for a couple of seconds. You get auto afked after a half or so minute. You get back and random things happens to your stuff.
On the otehr hand if u really need to leave, and u need to do so in a middle of the battle, before your units get transferred to other player they are dead.
Maybe the way to go would be implementing !afk command, and extendign auto-afk time to 1.5-2 minutes?
(and reducing lagging/catching up/dropped transfer to 5 seconds?)