Why Does the Forked Tower Kick You, Delevel You, and Keep Your Cipher If you DC?

I wait all day to get into a run for FT. Start the run, and during the first boss, I had a quick DC. I logged back in and was kicked from the instance.

Why would it be designed this way?

if you return within 10min, i.e. quickly, you don't get kicked out of the instance

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Originally Posted by 0blivion

if you return within 10min, i.e. quickly, you don't get kicked out of the instance

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I feel like I was pretty quick to return to the instance, but maybe the time I was standing there waiting to 90k counts on the timer?

It's character building, good discipline for the mind.

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Originally Posted by Volgia

It's character building, good discipline for the mind.

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I'd suggest when you channel advertising slogans for the military to commend a process within a game, you've somewhat missed the point.

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Originally Posted by Sepher

I wait all day to get into a run for FT. Start the run, and during the first boss, I had a quick DC. I logged back in and was kicked from the instance.

Why would it be designed this way?

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Because it has to log your character out, then log you back in, then push you back into the instance - and if you're dead and haven't done anything in 10m, then it's kicking you out so you aren't just AFKing inside an instance for 3h with your timer ticking, even in Forked Tower.

You deleveled because you probably died during the DC. Even still, it sucks. The best you can do is try again.

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Originally Posted by Volgia

It's character building, good discipline for the mind.

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Originally Posted by Mawlzy

I'd suggest when you channel advertising slogans for the military to commend a process within a game, you've somewhat missed the point.

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Whoosh right over the head.

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Originally Posted by HyperiusUltima

The best you can do is try again.

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…or value more your time.

tbf why does it delvl you at all? its one thing on the open map. (even though it feels more like its there so people can get their ress achievement xD)
but in the instance someone elses mistake can kill everybody?

as a hindrance to reach maxlvl? ok. but i dont think it does make a lot of sense once you are max lvl

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Originally Posted by Sepher

Why would it be designed this way?

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the fact that people still ask questions about design decisions about this raid is funny to me.
They took every bad idea and system possible and combined them all.

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Originally Posted by Jokerz_93

…or value more your time.

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To be fair, you're in there with 48 different people if you're going into Forked Tower. I've been in there myself and had my time wasted, only to get up and try again. Why? Because I want to clear it. If you're going to argue that Occult Crescent doesn't value your time, make a better statement than just that. Literally the best thing you can do is try again in their instance because crap happens.

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Originally Posted by Asari5

tbf why does it delvl you at all? its one thing on the open map. (even though it feels more like its there so people can get their ress achievement xD)
but in the instance someone elses mistake can kill everybody?

as a hindrance to reach maxlvl? ok. but i dont think it does make a lot of sense once you are max lvl

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It delevels you since that's the system they chose. Regardless, the loss of Knowledge Points is negligible given how often FATEs and CEs come up. At most, it takes just a few FATEs and a CE to even return back to 20.

You used the cipher to get in. You are only refunded if you don't make it into forked tower. Ciphers are cheap af anyway. Also, you only need 16 ciphers donated to ensure everyone else gets in. You would have to put one in to ensure you're chosen if there are more than 48 pcs on the pad. I don't really see this as an issue since refunding a cipher for a dc could be abused by bad actors.

2 FATEs, one CE btw. And yeah, I don't want to make bad actors any more convenienced by the system