MSQ with no new bonus - cutscene skip

For the love of all that's holy, can we please auto-skip the cutscenes when the MSQ roulette has no new members?

We've all seen the scenes. They're great. But we don't NEED them if there are no new players. So why not just cut them out?

Because why not just kick players until nobody's new so you can skip them?

Don't queue if you're going to complain.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Don't queue if you're going to complain.

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Precisely.

The OP has no business queuing up if he/she is going to feel irritated over this.

There is honestly only *one* real solution to the MSQ dungeons. Rework them. As they are, they are not fun for *anyone*, vets and new players alike. Vets have seen it dozens of times and are no longer interested, only doing the roulette because of the massive XP / Tomestone bonuses, and new players still feel incredibly rushed through those dungeons, barely feeling like they're even contributing because everything dies so fast. These dungeons are incredibly out-dated and were just plain bad even way back in ARR. They really need to be reworked, either updated to match regular dungeon quality, or, and this would be preferable imo, reworked and retooled to be solo duties, so that new players can do them at their own pace and get the storyline *and* gameplay they want, and vet players don't need to be lured into doing them with bloated rewards.

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Originally Posted by JiralJadedream

For the love of all that's holy, can we please auto-skip the cutscenes when the MSQ roulette has no new members?

We've all seen the scenes. They're great. But we don't NEED them if there are no new players. So why not just cut them out?

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Just (ALT + F4) or (use task manager to close FFXIV) to skip cutscenes, you only really need to skip cutscenes for The Praetorium. Works better if you have another person with you (healer pref).

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Originally Posted by Hyoon

Just (ALT + F4) or (use task manager to close FFXIV) to skip cutscenes, you only really need to skip cutscenes for The Praetorium. Works better if you have another person with you (healer pref).

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This is a reportable offensive, you do this to skip cutscenes and you will be reported. Learn to wait for other people or don't queue for MSQ, it's so simple.

I find it funny that the popular suggested answer to MSQ roulette taking anywhere from 40-60 minutes to complete due to cutscenes is to simply not queue for it. Honestly, I agree because there are much better ways to farm for those tomes that actually keeps you involved and doesn't have you doing fights that are more boring than the Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak. Maybe once Main Scenario roulette takes 30 minutes or an hour to even get a party for, then SE might consider making the daily reward absurd enough to where people would actually want to do it. I'm personally thinking a good fix may be to make the daily into a weekly that gives 1000 tomes of Poetics & 500 tomes of Goetia.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

This is a reportable offensive, you do this to skip cutscenes and you will be reported. Learn to wait for other people or don't queue for MSQ, it's so simple.

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I run MSQ roulette daily and skip cutscenes for Praetorium all the time, and I've never been reported.

The truth is most people don't really mind with the ability to teleport to the boss room after the lockout.

The fights in the Praetorium aren't exciting enough for most people to care.

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Originally Posted by Tranquilmelody7

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When you get reported, a GM isn't going to instantly contact you to say you have had a report against you, but it does go on your record.

In regards to the cutscenes, it's an exploit and against the ToS, this has been confirmed by GMs. If I see you doing it I would report you and so should anyone else, it's not for you to decide how quick the run should go.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

This is a reportable offensive, you do this to skip cutscenes and you will be reported. Learn to wait for other people or don't queue for MSQ, it's so simple.

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Might also be reportable here on the forums, sharing knowledge of exploits.

But, I'd have to actually read the forum tos to be sure of that....