Can we please get an option to manually change our Instance channel in zones? Or at least a menu option when I right click a party member to join their Instance. Any MMO with split-zone functionality has this option, because it's a pain in the butt otherwise. As it is, I'm pretty much always playing with my husband and we can't teleport anywhere or risk getting put in a different instance.
I'm not sure how this made it to live without one, but please add some way to manually join another's instance!
Manually join another player's instance
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06-20-2017, 08:10 AMNaunetManually join another player's instance
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06-20-2017, 08:19 AMstormI'd suggest it made it to live without one, because they refuse to have public test realms. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Naunet
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06-20-2017, 09:09 AMNaunet
Ugh and we log out for dinner in Ala Ghanna, come back to separate instances... in order to continue questing, we've got to all the way back to Rhalgr's Reach, manually run out, and then run back to our questing area (which of course means we lose our Twist of Fate buff, too). This is so ridiculous. @_@
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06-20-2017, 09:45 AMEvergrey
This is temporary, just like how it was during HW release.
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06-20-2017, 09:47 AMNaunetDoesn't mean it's not horrendously inconvenient and shouldn't have come with full functionality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evergrey
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06-20-2017, 09:49 AMTaggerung5
Uh, dude. You can. WALK into said zone from a zone line next to it. Do not teleport. Then you can choose which instance to enter.
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06-20-2017, 09:54 AMNaunet
Yes, I realize that. But you can't teleport anywhere once you're in that zone. If you get disconnected or log off and log back in, then you also often end up in separate instances - which necessitates hauling but across to a zone line, zoning back in, and then running all the way back to your questing area. It's absurd.
"Right click--> Join party member's instance" should not be that hard. -
06-20-2017, 09:55 AMserasethOnce you're in the same zone you can use the teleport within the zone safely. Me and my partner would walk across the boundary line to end up in the same zone, then use the teleport within the zone to cross faster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Naunet
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06-20-2017, 10:00 AMVaer
Same thing happened in HW. I play with my girlfriend and it's annoying having to go to the previous zone and walk through the zoneline to switch it to the right one if instance roulette puts us in different copies which is like most of the time. Once I'm in the right copy I can just use a teleport within the zone to cover more area faster. Zones that require using NPCs to enter or leave, you also can't choose the instance copy either which makes it even more annoying.
I'd rather it just keep players in parties together when zoning and move them to the lowest populated map of the three. If all the maps are full, default to the current behavior. -
06-20-2017, 10:01 AMEvergreyWhy would they put the time, money and effort in making a feature that would not stay for a long time?Quote:
Originally Posted by Naunet
Like you mentioned, other games with different districts have a manual feature where you can switch, but those games are built with that in mind.
I know that it's inconvenient but we won't have to suffer for long. Endure it. -
06-20-2017, 10:07 AMNaunetYes, this would work too. Logical.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaer
As it is, it feels pretty half-assed. -
06-20-2017, 10:09 AMTwinsoulJust because it's temporary is no reason to do a shoddy job. Folk should really have higher standards for a world-class development company like this. No matter what people think of the budget SE gives this game's devs, it's not like it's being made on an indie game's budget. They can make a functional UI.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evergrey
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06-20-2017, 10:19 AMKosmos992kAgreed, I wrote a post about the same issue and was told I was attempting to use some form of loophole exploit, when all I wanted to do is be in the same zone as my wife. It needs to be remedied, how social is a game that deliberately separates friends and family attempting to play together?Quote:
Originally Posted by Naunet
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06-29-2017, 08:09 AMNaunet
Bumping this because every time I leave the House of the Fierce my husband and I get split up.
SE, you've had like 2 years to not half-ass his instancing thing. Just let us join the instance of party lead or something... -
06-29-2017, 08:18 AMVallamariaWell SE simply just doesn't understand the meaning of things like not half-assing stuff, what upgrading servers normally actually means, or the fact that DEVs should normally actually test things more properly before just shoving it off to the live servers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Naunet
Or to put it all more simply. Half-assed is SE's middle name. -
06-29-2017, 09:45 AMRichardButteBecause it'll be used in every future expansion and it's a giant PITA every time a new one releases.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evergrey