What are we gonna do if there aren't enough people for Instances anymore?

Just a random question, if there aren't people to do other dungeons with or to make progress in Coil or otherwise because everyone is already with someone else or just no one is playing, won't this game die harder than the Dinosaurs?

I don't think that's something you have to worry about for a very, very long time.

No because it doesn't happen in other games.

You have to take incentive, shout, party finder, duty finder, etc.

I believe Roulette fixes this

The natural progression will lead to soloable versions of instances. Of course, not having enough players to go around won't happen for quite a long time (hopefully).

I don't think SE wants to put themselves in the position where players have to rely on people solely from their own server just to progress in-game. That hits a little too close to FFXI for some people's tastes.

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Originally Posted by Shori

I believe Roulette fixes this

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Besides content where you would still need other people. Hoping the roulette gives you the Primals to get a Relic weapon is praying to the RNG gods much too hard for my liking.

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Originally Posted by Huntington

Besides content where you would still need other people. Hoping the roulette gives you the Primals to get a Relic weapon is praying to the RNG gods much too hard for my liking.

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The player seeking certain content wouldn't choose roulette. Other players do. Players in the roulette join the instance being sought by a certain player.

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Originally Posted by Almalexia

The player seeking certain content wouldn't choose roulette. Other players do. Players in the roulette join the instance being sought by a certain player.

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You're still having to hope it does them in the order you need, since you have to do Ifrit, Garuda, then Titan. If it keeps giving you Ifrit and Titan, and I've not once gotten Garuda for my Trials roulette for two months now, you're screwed. Want to do a dungeon as a DPS? You better hope you know someone. The only things you can do solo are Leves, some FATEs, Beast Tribes, and some story content. Later on, you can't progress the story without at least 8 people for most things. This is going to make doing anything impossible. Basing the system that determines how you do most of the game's content is a terrible idea because it assumes that there's always going to be thousands of people using it.

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Originally Posted by Huntington

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You don't seem to understand, When you Que for Garuda the empty spots are often filled by people in the duty roulette. The party is first filled with everyone queing for that exact instance and then it's filled in with duty roulette people. So you just need to que for ifrit as normal then gaurda then titan. The only reason some of the trials ever come up in roulette is when someone with no one to help them ques for them, ie chimera and hydra.

SE will just keep adding the next tomestones (or whatever currency) to the roulette daily rewards to keep people doing them. If drops lower, then they will probably add higher incentives. aka more gil.

cape westwind I see people who have queued for over 2 hours with no pop

This needs to be fixed as its part of main story

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Originally Posted by Ddmk

cape westwind I see people who have queued for over 2 hours with no pop

This needs to be fixed as its part of main story

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Duty Roulette main scenario only gives myth, and not a lot of myth at that, so not a ton of ppl que for it. I can wait 30 mins to get into a main scenario roulette on a tank job, cant imagine how bad it is for a dd.

Not true it is something you need to worry about, when the story progresses and people get to far and rewards are better than roulette.

You will see a huge problem, I have been up late at night even in day time searching in roulette for hours nothing, yeah i'll get lucky for a few days and it stops sometimes.

I can see it having problems in a close time period as patches roll out, unless they update roulette but then nobody would spam bigger runs.

Lets say, first expansion rolls out they give 200 myth for one run, anyone who is far into the game isn't gonna worry about old roulette for 100 myth or even crystal tower unless they started the game, the people who joined up will have problems finding pt's or duty finder even PF it will be the 2005-2006 FFXI flag up issue hard to find pt's even when shouting.

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Originally Posted by Huntington

You're still having to hope it does them in the order you need, since you have to do Ifrit, Garuda, then Titan. If it keeps giving you Ifrit and Titan, and I've not once gotten Garuda for my Trials roulette for two months now, you're screwed. Want to do a dungeon as a DPS? You better hope you know someone. The only things you can do solo are Leves, some FATEs, Beast Tribes, and some story content. Later on, you can't progress the story without at least 8 people for most things. This is going to make doing anything impossible. Basing the system that determines how you do most of the game's content is a terrible idea because it assumes that there's always going to be thousands of people using it.

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You probably want to figure out how the Duty Finder works.

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Originally Posted by Chibionieko

Duty Roulette main scenario only gives myth, and not a lot of myth at that, so not a ton of ppl que for it. I can wait 30 mins to get into a main scenario roulette on a tank job, cant imagine how bad it is for a dd.

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Main Scenario Roulette is only Castrum/Praetorium. Cape Westwind is in the Trials Roulette.

30 mins for a tank in Main Scenario sounds a little bit exaggerated.
My healer queue time is 5 mins tops, and DPS is 10 mins at the most.

Also, here is a tip.
Make some friends with similar goals.