We Need a Solo Duty Queue

In light of all the issues that Cold Steel has brought, many would be alleviated if we had a queue that would take our requests for the solo Duty, and give us a spot in line when the Data Center has reached sufficient load so we can successfully complete the solo Duties. That is for everything that we're having issues with.

This would do a few big things:

1. Stop us from wasting our lives stacked around the NPC that gives the duty
2. Save us from 90k errors
3. Let us go do something else while we wait.

This feature is long overdue, and it's something that IMO should have been here when 2.0 launched.

I've seen this idea put forward several times and I agree entirely. Consider it signed.

I've been saying this since EA started

EXACTLY what I've been thinking all day. Gets an ACTUAL organized line going, people could maybe even get an estimation of how long they'd have to wait/how many people were in front of them and you could be doing something else while queued up just like any other normal duty.

Even if it's not permanent, this should at least be instated until the flood slows down.

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Originally Posted by Miyha

EXACTLY what I've been thinking all day. Gets an ACTUAL organized line going, people could maybe even get an estimation of how long they'd have to wait/how many people were in front of them and you could be doing something else while queued up just like any other normal duty.

Even if it's not permanent, this should at least be instated until the flood slows down.

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I totally agree, and hopefully we can get this added into the game with a hotfix, or by 4.1 at the latest. It would also help prevent the same issue from occurring in future expansions.

Agreed, it would not bother me so much that I couldn't get through if the line ahead of me was actually moving. It seems more and more people are stuck at the same point and it's sucking all of the joy out of the game. The new reminder about your current main scenario quest seems a mockery right now. I don't mind waiting my turn, but this is insane.

Yep.

But I guess that would cost Square Enix a small fraction of their profits. Why spend money when they can just shit all over their playerbase and the poor developers who worked so hard on this game?

It should have been in the game from ARR, honestly, at this point it feels the devs are being willfully ignorant of the issues players face.

Yes, please. (Bump.)

Do this SE. Do this.

Hell, even allow up to eight people into the instance. Scale it up based on body count.

Problem with the single player queue is that it would need to be as robust as the login system to handle as many individual queues as we do now, and, speculatively, I don't think it's something in the scope of their budget, server wise - not to mention they probably don't have the proper rubric to make it from scratch, which they'll likely have to do as the format of the party based ones isn't so easily transferred.

Other than that yes, I think it should happen and they should invest the time. I don't think it's something they can produce quickly, however. Although I am more than willing to be proven wrong here.

Please prove me wrong here, SE.

I think this is a great idea. I am kinda impressed that the whole "lets make a literal line" system works in this game, but that is largely due to how great the community is. In the future for bottlenecks like this, I hope they do something to give people a tangible idea when they will be able to progress.

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Originally Posted by Frostyflakes

I think this is a great idea. I am kinda impressed that the whole "lets make a literal line" system works in this game, but that is largely due to how great the community is. In the future for bottlenecks like this, I hope they do something to give people a tangible idea when they will be able to progress.

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Sadly, the line thing only has a chance to work if the community is organized enough to make it work, and you don't get enough idiots that say "screw it" that causes the line to collapse.