Instance Reset Timer

I would also like to see an instance idle-time limit increased as well. As I understand it, currently if an area has only 2 exits it will expire in 8 minutes of inactivity and if an instance has more than 2 exits it will expire in 15 minutes of inactivity.

I agree with a few of the solutions mentioned in this post, I'd also be willing a pay a little in the shop to have my instance time limit increased.

I'm a father of a toddler as well and I have to sometimes portal to town to take care of some business.

I'd like to make a suggestion of having a trigger than you can control to increase the instance expiration time. For example, I'd like to see an option where I can type in a status, such as /afk that will set my character to an away mode which also will temporarily lengthen my current instances' timers. Any movements or actions to my character after setting /afk will automatically clear the away status and return the instance timers back to their pre-afk time, or even reset to the default 8/15 minute interval.

Another suggestion is to not have an instance timer run on any instances that have a town portal open; this seems like a simple solution.