"Reserving instance?" Can't enter Crystal Tower

Between yesterday and today I couldn't enter crystal tower once. Party finder is stuck on "reserving instance" for long periods of time, until someone in the party gives up and leaves.

Did Square Enix underestimate the demand for servers again? :(

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Between yesterday and today I couldn't enter crystal tower once. Party finder is stuck on "reserving instance" for long periods of time, until someone in the party gives up and leaves.

Did Square Enix underestimate the demand for servers again? :(

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they always do

Don't enter with full party and then you barely get reserving instance. Reserving instance only happen for full pre-made parties because it is harder to find 8+8+8 than everyone solo or with 2-4.
But of course entering with pre-made party makes that your party doesn't have jerks or something and kick for stupid reasons too.

I think this is a bug, I have seen this a lot with friends in party. Once that happens, it only shows you in queue even if you are still in a party with others locally and says reserving instance. The only solution is to withdraw and requeue. Happens after someone withdraws, but not all the time.

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Originally Posted by Shiki_Lockhart

Don't enter with full party and then you barely get reserving instance. Reserving instance only happen for full pre-made parties because it is harder to find 8+8+8 than everyone solo or with 2-4.
But of course entering with pre-made party makes that your party doesn't have jerks or something and kick for stupid reasons too.

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If that is really the case (1) that is beyond stupid. The system can't DF two of the three parties? It has to DF all three in some fashion? (2) actually now that I think about it this is something SE's stupid coding would cause.

I have not yet encounter this issue with DF full and none full pt