2 HOUR QUEUE TIMES? MORE DUTY FINDER SERVERS NEED TO BE ADDED ASAP!

Hi i just want to say the queue times keep getting longer and longer. It was understandable when the majority was playing DPS classes (20-30 minutes), but thats not the case anymore. We had a full group at around 50 minutes in, but couldnt go in since all the instances were full. It took about another hour with a full group to finally play.

SE needs to add more Duty Finder servers.

Since i hit 50, all ive been doing is waiting.... and waiting. This is not the game I see myself playing for very long if this keeps up.

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THIS IS NOT OK.

Edit.. 10/1/13

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

The development team is aware of the long wait times to reserve instances, and as mentioned by Yoshida during the Tokyo Game Show, we'll be increasing the amount of instance servers in mid-October to help alleviate this issue.

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They just need to add more Mythology stone places, problem solved. Ampador Keep instance gets pretty damn full.

it is not that they need more servers, they need to adjust it so that when an instance pops up and has been reserved that if someone does not click join that the next player in line gets that slot, not finds a new player and then puts you in the back of the line for waiting for instance.

Also, weekends are ALWAYS the worst time to run in the DF as there are the most people playing. You can not see from your picture, but 2DD in queue waiting for a tank/healer combo or single tank and healer is also your problem. Most tanks/healers will pair up with at least 1 DPS to ensure that the run will be reasonably smooth which makes them essentially cut in line of any 2DD partial parties.

Join a FC or make friends on your server and queue with a tank or healer, you will find much better success with the DF, even in peek weekend hours.

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Originally Posted by Wobi

They just need to add more Mythology stone places, problem solved. Ampador Keep instance gets pretty damn full.

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Also note that the issues is happening in CM now as most people are running that as it is a better time/tomestone once you are capped on mythology. Also adding more places will not fix the issue as one will always be shorter, or easier if they are the same time and this is the one place everyone will flock to for farming

this is what happens when you make people spend 60 mins in an instance instead of the previous 20 and dont increase the number of instance servers

This has already brought me to my breaking point, add in the fact that after a queue like this if you get into a group where someone doesn't like your gear or the overall composition of the group and bails you're stuck waiting longer. If not starting over completely if its a primal fight since you can't requeue in those.

I'm supposed to get charged in 2 days, and I'm about to cancel it tonight.

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Originally Posted by ZyloWolfBane

This has already brought me to my breaking point, add in the fact that after a queue like this if you get into a group where someone doesn't like your gear or the overall composition of the group and bails you're stuck waiting longer. If not starting over completely if its a primal fight since you can't requeue in those.

I'm supposed to get charged in 2 days, and I'm about to cancel it tonight.

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And with that the problem of the overclogged instance server will be solved. SE is not going to add any more servers til they see how many paying customers are around and upgrade from there if needed.

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Originally Posted by Wobi

And with that the problem of the overclogged instance server will be solved. SE is not going to add any more servers til they see how many paying customers are around and upgrade from there if needed.

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Well they already fooled me once with 1.0 and I came back, I refuse to reward them a second time and resub with the assumption that it'll get better "Eventually" and listen to potentially 1-3 more years of their apologies.

They had their chance, and by my standards failed. I'd rather play just about anything else at this point.

Question is one of the effects of long wait times also effected by which role you are playing? If so then at times there isn't much SE can do unless they start making it so people have to make a tank or healer.

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Originally Posted by Roaminggnome

Question is one of the effects of long wait times also effected by which role you are playing? If so then at times there isn't much SE can do unless they start making it so people have to make a tank or healer.

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Sadly even being a healer doesn't solve it, most times as a SCH I still have equally long queue times. And despite maining tanks in every other MMO I've played it's probably the least fine tuned role in this game, not to mention the only entertaining tank (WAR) happens to be the least ideal and most shunned tank in practically all of the random groups I've done from start to finish, so I won't touch it and go through yet a 3rd fate grind to 50 (Another ridiculous issue of this game, but I digress) for another class just to avoid queues.

SE needs to make the tanks better, or link more servers together for Duty finder.

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Originally Posted by Roaminggnome

Question is one of the effects of long wait times also effected by which role you are playing? If so then at times there isn't much SE can do unless they start making it so people have to make a tank or healer.

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I wish it were only this. Yesterday I was in a party for AK all from my server, four man premade, and we had to sit in queue for thirty-two minutes before we got to do our run we had scheduled ahead of time. Once the queue finally popped someone couldn't stay because they lost so much of their play time waiting to actually enter the instance.

Your a DPS, almost half of the Classes are DPS. the problem is that there aren't enough tanks and Healers to fill the duty roles, not that there's no room.. duty find as a tank or healer. guarantee its only a 10 second wait.

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Originally Posted by Amocoru

I wish it were only this. Yesterday I was in a party for AK all from my server, four man premade, and we had to sit in queue for thirty-two minutes before we got to do our run we had scheduled ahead of time. Once the queue finally popped someone couldn\\'t stay because they lost so much of their play time waiting to actually enter the instance.

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Im just curious, is it just the duty finder causing the ques (duty server) or a combination of duty and instance servers? What im saying is, has anyone that has made a 4 man pre-made party tried just actually going to the dungeon entrance and starting the run that way instead of queing? Not sure if that works or how these servers are tied together so yeah srs question.

Ahh the life of a tank *puts feet up on desk*

Insta-queue ftw

Such a shame the game relies soley on Instanced content do preform anything in the game. Maybe if there was something in the open world more engaging than zerging fates people might be spread out doing multiple kinds of content and not just cramming into a instanced box with no room to fill.

I thought i'd just skip this whole mess by crafting some HQ Vanya gear and melding materia to it. :D
But yes, the whole 'Only AK has this item' thing is a huge gaff by SE.

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Originally Posted by Jynx

Such a shame the game relies soley on Instanced content do preform anything in the game. Maybe if there was something in the open world more engaging than zerging fates people might be spread out doing multiple kinds of content and not just cramming into a instanced box with no room to fill.

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People would most likely be doing the same thing regardless whether or not it was instanced. Open world NMs? Well you'd have to outclaim 50 other parties because the game is fresh and everyone wants a drop, etc etc. I'd honestly rather see them drop Odin and Behemoth from the open world and make those instances as well. They do need to spread things out though, since people are primarily there for their myth tokens.

It's weird - everything was working fine before they started splitting things up into "groups".

The waiting to reserve instance needs to end as soon as possible. It is silly. Amdapor has the wait but a full group instant pops for any other dungeon. This tells me the instance server can handle it, they have just some full retard restriction on Amdapor. Tonight's maintenance better remove the restriction.

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Originally Posted by Kobolt

Your a DPS, almost half of the Classes are DPS. the problem is that there aren't enough tanks and Healers to fill the duty roles, not that there's no room.. duty find as a tank or healer. guarantee its only a 10 second wait.

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Take a look at the actual complaint. The guy has a full party all checked in and ready to go, but the instance will not start because too many people are running it. This has NOTHING to do with trying to find a group.

Well yea, this will happen when you have all fresh 50's que for AK instead of doing Wanderer's Palace first seeing how of course Wanderer's Palace comes first before AK. It's like seeing a fresh 50 in AF gear/ Lvl 44 Pink wep and lvl 20 accessories in Ifrit HM or Garuda HM. No offense intended!

I'll have you know i only cried for 30 min when my party fell apart within 3 ; ^ ; SQUEENIXXXX PLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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never been had trouble with DF since patches last wednesday. I think u should make some friends in your server, and doing dungeon together 4 or 8man.

The reason you are waiting so long is due to solo queues. Today the queue for AK was about 20 min with a full group. The problem is when you solo queue every time someone leaves the queue by hitting withdraw that you have been matched with or doesn't click their button when the queue pops you get put at the back of the line again. You can get very unlucky have have people leave the queue and thus reset the matchmaking process and put you at the back of the line over and over.

I do think they need more duty finder servers. It was ok for awhile after the maintenance but as soon as more people got 50 the queues became long again.

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Originally Posted by Kobolt

Your a DPS, almost half of the Classes are DPS. the problem is that there aren't enough tanks and Healers to fill the duty roles, not that there's no room.. duty find as a tank or healer. guarantee its only a 10 second wait.

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This is standard bullshit . Even if you join whit a premade 4 man party you get reserving istance sometimes for more then 30 minutes up to one hours

I don't think you guys are understanding what's going on.

First, you must wait for your party to be 'full'. Then, you must wait for an instance to be 'free'. There are only a certain amount of instances available per dungeon, and if you are running a popular dungeon, you might have to wait a long time.

How can I prove this? Try signing up with a completely premade party for CM or AK. If you don't get an instant-ready queue, there aren't enough instances available. Back when AK speed runs existed, full groups would have to wait anywhere between 20-30 minutes just to get a 'slot'... and that was when people would clear the dungeon in 20 minutes. Now it takes closer to forty. It gets even worse if you don't have a premade group and have to wait the necessary 20+ added minutes if you are a DPS. I generally won't join DF groups unless I'm super desperate.

The duty finder isn't the problem. The instance server is. Amdapor Keep is being creamed with people trying to get in. As other's have said they need more places to get myth, or more AK Instance servers.

Join an endgame LS. More often then not, I see people looking to fill spots in my chat box more sooner than I get put in a party in DF.

Offer spots to friends and LS mates before registering. Who knows, maybe there's a WHM or TANK that wants to run with you getting you a quick cut to the front of the line.

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Originally Posted by Jynx

Such a shame the game relies soley on Instanced content do preform anything in the game. Maybe if there was something in the open world more engaging than zerging fates people might be spread out doing multiple kinds of content and not just cramming into a instanced box with no room to fill.

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Have you seen the Behemoth or Odin fates? About 500-1000 people trying to fight the same mob that it blinks in and out and people's characters just blink in and out and you can't even see the monster. If they had more stuff like that it wouldn't play well. I would take instances anyday even if you have to wait 30 min with a full group.

sigh... People saying he is dps... He's not talking about the wait on forming the group. He's talking about having a full group but sitll not getting in because it's reserviving the instance.

And to people saying the instance server can handle it, SE doesn't have one big instance server. They have instance servers for each instance. Meaning the server serving Braylonx Longstep is a different machine than the server serving Amdapor Keep. Amdapor Keep is filling up so people see "Reserving Instance" basically meaning that it is waiting for a group to finish the instance or leave the instance before letting another group get in. They need another amdapor keep server or multiple, or more dungeons serving myth.

SE crashing and burning?

Some companies just can't seem to get it right, lol.

Amdapor is so packed it drives me nuts. So between the 30 minute waits for whatever reason I have to do the instance ( usually mythology ) I spend that time wasting all my gil and craft. They need to fix it....I think the lag in the instance servers is also causing the "titan bug." That they never fixed. >.>

Se crashing and burning?... nah.. The 300,000+ people like me will pay and the game will survive, then we'll brag about how much harder our content a year from now is than (Insert Game Here) like we did with FFXI when wow was in it's prime.

One of the server groups is way over packed too vs the other one

This group (Behemoth/Cerberus/Coeurl/Excalibur/Faerie/Gilgamesh/Leviathan/Midgardsormr/Phoenix/Sargatanas/Shiva/Ultros) queues are still 20-30 min. A guy I know on Hyperion told me queues are almost instant the majority of the time, which has the other NA servers.

FFXI content harder than WoW content?

I laughed so hard I threw up.

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Originally Posted by Dastard

FFXI content harder than WoW content?

I laughed so hard I threw up.

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Right? Maybe if it reached EQ2 quality back when THAT launched I might actually like this game.

I don't know. I go mine... or craft... or level another job... if you are just sitting there staring at the clock with your head on your desk you should branch out

Well you DPS guys have yourself to blame, if you won't switch to healer, which is only a handful of quests to do for a SMN (like the OP) them more fool you.

Every MMO has problems with DD/DPS having long queues.

I will agree that they need more servers still, but yesterday was the first prime time since maintenance so I am sure they are keeping an eye on this.

Your queue for a dungeon doesn't actually start until you have a full party so you can shave 50 mins of that right off to begin with.

Perhaps it's worse for level 50 content, but so far as tank I almost always get a party instantly with the duty finder. Yet if I switch to a dps class I wait ~40 minutes.

So isn't the problem more to do with there being lots of dps classes in the game with only a couple tank/healer ones? and of course as always dps gets played more often.

EDIT: I'm level 44 paladin, forum is showing me as lv 28 for some reason.

Again, he's not talking about the que to get a group he's talking about the reserving instance wait when the instance server is full. I am a 50 tank and me and my FC waiting 35 minutes last night to get into AK because it was full. The duty finder said "Reserving Instance"... We qued up with a full 4 man, meaning we had no group form que. The issue isn't that he's dps, it's that the instance server for Amdapor Keep can't handle the amount of people trying to get into it.

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I do believe this may be a glitch in the DF. Several times I've queued for an instance and had a cut scene or something interrupt the duty finder, and it will show exactly that same screen for reserving the instance for an eternity.
Every time this has happened, we've withdrawn, dissolved the party and reformed to queue again and, bam, instant dungeon.

Even solo queuing, I have never been able to enter an instance whilst on the "reserving" menu. Even as a healer it's happened, and again, withdrawing and queuing again granted instant access.

A bit of trial and error, but I'm noticing a pattern which leads me to think it could be a bug?