Come back next game day!! or Come back after japanese midnight!!!

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Originally Posted by Dragoy

Hmmm, I might be more annoyed by the requirement of changing area to be able to repeat a quest. This holds especially true to the quests in Abyssea.

They did mention once that they are/were thinking of removing that (unsure if it meant quests in general or only those in Abyssea), but I have no idea what the status of that idea now is (or if it even exists any longer).

Also: Mission Progress: Wait until the next day (earth-time).

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Thanks Dragoy!!!

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Originally Posted by Camiie

They're fully implemented now and have been for years.



If they want to do missions and can't because of a built-in delay then their gameplay is being ground to a halt. Gameplay isn't about what you CAN do, it's about what you WANT to do.

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Agreed. Someone a few posts ago mentioned the wait timers are there to keep you in the game and subscribed longer, but nowadays there is enough content that they don't need to divide story sections with such ridiculous timers. 1-3 hours would be fine, but a full day? Sometimes the help you have is only available within the day, so it ends up being a longer wait if you need to shout for members once the timer ends. Thankfully depending on your job you can solo most of it, but a full day wait is still ridiculous.

Another day, another JM screwing me over. Today while doing ToAU I did Mission 24 Foiled Ambition and Mission 25 Playing the Part, which requires a game day and zoning for a CS which even when spamming enter, takes about 5 minutes. Following that I had to zone again, and wait for JM, lucky for me JM and the day changing landed at the exact same moment, so it was completely impossible for me to finish the quest involving the JM CS thanks to the game day CS. Due to being literally 7 minutes late for this, I now must wait a full 24 hours to continue a story I have already done on another character.

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I now must wait a full 24 hours to continue a story I have already done on another character.

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While I agree that a lot of the wait times should be cut down or eliminated, Why do you feel alternate characters, which are completely independent of each other, deserve to have special privileges, which is what you imply by adding "a story I have already done on another character." again, different characters are not connected, you don't get a free ticket out of XYZ content just because you've personally experienced it before.

I put that in there because I have experienced the story already once before, and know that the wait has no story significance, as such it makes it even worse that I must wait an entire day to continue because I was a few minutes late. If the wait were something story relevant which made sense, I may be more accepting, the same as if it were my first time doing it and I felt as though maybe I was waiting because something was coming, and I should be feeling anticipation. However neither of these are the case, its just a pointless cut off that has me waiting a day for no real reason except that back when it was added they cut off the missions at that point, and never went back to make it a game day or some such.

An example of when I would think its ok for this kind of thing.

Bad guy A is up to something, and the heroes know, however they are waiting for his next move as they have no idea where he is or what he is up to. This makes sense why you must wait, because you are waiting on the upcoming event involving the bad guy.

An example of something I do not find acceptable.

Story character has given you massive plot elements to move on in the story, however for some unknown and unexplained reason you are not allowed to continue forward with the story because the quest will not start.

The first has a legitimate reason for stopping you from continuing, as it is part of the plot, however the second is not because while your character is supposed to know info that allows you to continue, you are prevented by the game for unexplained reasons.

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If the wait were something story relevant which made sense, I may be more accepting

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Most of those waits in the missions, the NPC tells you to come back later, or that he needs time to do X or whatever- there is a reasonable explanation for the forced wait. We still want them to go away of course.

In most cases I would probably convert JP midnight waits to game day waits, and game day waits to "zone and come back."

*Slight spoilers in this post!*

In this case Naja is mad at me, I already know that something is going on with the Black Coffin, and I know some info about it. Now if I were me, I would be looking for a way to make my lovely Mithra boss not decapitate me with her large spiky mace, in this case, looking for the Black Coffin and getting information about it. The last thing I would do is stand around doing nothing so that she can yell at me next time I walk into her office about how I have been doing nothing since my last assignment, and she can tell me how worthless I am. This is at least my out look on the CS I encountered today.