A party member has withdrawn...

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

45+ minute queues as a healer because of this nonsense. I'd hate to hear how long DPS queues are.

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Normally my queues for the CT are 30min, and it starts with Withdraw thing it can get for me 1h 30min and more !

The worse thing is it does not appear only for CT, i get this with the Withdraw in all the dns !

To top it you can get vote kicked with no reason once you are in it !

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Originally Posted by CHunterX

This went on for over 15 minutes, and should never happen for this long. The first time you withdraw from a duty you should be presented with a 2 minute lockout that doubles each subsequent time until you enter a duty.

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This or BETTER give us an option to "join ONLY party in progress": problem solved.

This has been happening since pre 2.1. Especially with AK as people "fished" for in progress after the demon wall as many got blocked there. Also with WP, for extra fast myth.

Before 2.1 I thought the loot would only come after the last boss. But when discoverd otherwise, I knew this would reoccur.Fishing for certain bosses to farm a single item.

Simple fix is don't backload the final boss with myth, take whatever myth the boss drops and divide it by how many bosses are in the zone.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Simple fix is don't backload the final boss with myth, take whatever myth the boss drops and divide it by how many bosses are in the zone.

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Then people would leave after first or second boss and requeue... Not an option tbh :D

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Originally Posted by Guevara

This or BETTER give us an option to "join ONLY party in progress": problem solved.

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No. Just No.

The 'Join Party In Progress' button is not a speed pass. It is not to 'get to the right boss' or to 'get the myth and get out' its...to help people. It's a kindness button. It was put in game to allow parties already in a duty a way to fill a spot once someone abandoned them so that they could finish the duty (otherwise, in many cases, they would have to leave the Duty themselves once one person dropped group due to low DPS/no healer or no tank).

Most parties I join in progress are relieved when I join because their healer abandoned them (usually because a DD messed up once and died or because the tank is new or the healer got pissy when it wasn't a speed run etc) and they had to sit and wait...and watch people NOT accept a 0/3 progress cue...or people join and then leave due to where they are. It's sad. If you select 'Join Party in Progress', you should be doing it because you want to HELP...not because you are impatient or greedy.

This is happening at all levels, dammit. Even queuing for a level 10 or 15 Guildhest gets this ridiculous behaviour.

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Originally Posted by Kinseykinz

If you select 'Join Party in Progress', you should be doing it because you want to HELP...not because you are impatient or greedy.

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Meh. Sorry, I really just want my King Behemoth drop.

The quickest and simplest solution would be, as already mentioned above, a lockout if you withdraw from a queue. Making it scale up with each successive withdraw would be optimal (but more hassle to program so likely to take longer) so a simple 2-5min lockout should suffice. It can't be to long or it screws up those who happen to be afk or cutscening -just- as it pops, but it needs to be long enough to make it simply not worth the hassle for the twits to keep doing it.

As for the whole queue CT with 3 premade groups, yeah that'd be a lovely option and I do hope thats added as a choic eventually, but it'll take a lot more programming effort than a withdraw cooldown so it won't be anytime soon.

CT is the exact dungeon where I would like to see any kind of punishment for this behaviour, just to see what all those "I won't use DF to join a dungeon anymore" people would do to enter a CT then, and tell them "where is your god now?"