Why do people queue for the Praetorium if they're just going to decline the ready?

I've queued for the Praetorium twice this week. On Monday there were FIVE declinations in a row before I gave up and just decided to spam more CM.

As of now it's been declined four times, and I'm not sure why.

Why queue up for something you're just going to decline? It's baffling.

Not everyone gets an instant queue. It's entirely possible that, after queuing, someone:

- has to go answer the door
- alt-tabs to do something real quick and loses track of time
- takes a bathroom break
- gets pulled away from the computer for any other reason
- answers the phone and it's important

Etc.

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Originally Posted by BlossomRose

Not everyone gets an instant queue. It's entirely possible that, after queuing, someone:

- has to go answer the door
- alt-tabs to do something real quick and loses track of time
- takes a bathroom break
- gets pulled away from the computer for any other reason
- answers the phone and it's important

Etc.

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I don't think you quite understand the situation I'm describing. This is a physical declination of the ready to join button. It's not letting the timer tick down from 45 to 0. It pops up, and immediately goes down because someone hit the "No" button.

I also don't get instant queued. I'm queuing on my Dragoon. ;o

Quite often what happens is they que up for one thing, but forgot to take of the tick for Praetorium and praetoruim pops, but they ment to do something like ifirit hm or something and they reject because its a accident.

That or, again, emergencies, or things come up. Only difference with the list I gave is that instead of timing out, they notice, and hit "no" rather than slow down the group.

Would you rather have people join and then go AFK for a while?

If it popped up and was immediately declined several times in a row in quick succession, what you have is a tank trolling the queue.

The other option is a Tank/Healer trying for an in-progress group.

I've declined for stuff immediately because right at the same time the DF popped I got a tell from a friend asking me to do something else with them...just to add another reason people might do this.

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Originally Posted by Cessna

Quite often what happens is they que up for one thing, but forgot to take of the tick for Praetorium and praetoruim pops, but they ment to do something like ifirit hm or something and they reject because its a accident.

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I believe he was referring to something like this.

http://i39.tinypic.com/2dl6kjk.png

I've heard a few horror stories regarding spiteful tanks and healers deliberately queuing for dungeons and declining repeatedly. I had this happen the other day when queuing for Garuda - six different groups formed within a few minutes and each and every time the healer would decline. A new group would form moments later and the same thing happened again.

Often when I queue as DPS I have ~60 min wait times...not everyone is staring at the screen 100% of the time for 60 min hoping for a pop. You grab a drink...miss a pop, go to WC, miss a pop, grab a sandwitch/coffee, miss a pop...u fall asleep coz of the queue excitement, miss a pop...so on and so forth.

personally i think it is b/c ppl are queued up looking for a team in progress and just rejecting it until they find one that has progressed far enough so they can skip more content.

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Originally Posted by Mid-Boss

personally i think it is b/c ppl are queued up looking for a team in progress and just rejecting it until they find one that has progressed far enough so they can skip more content.

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I see this a lot. You get healers or tanks that just want the final boss and will decline any group that isnt up to that point.

Yeah I queue up looking for an in-progress group for some easy tomes but end up thrown into a fresh group sometimes and will decline it. Though I know that messes with people so I only go once and will then uncheck that particular instance when I try again.

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Originally Posted by Poki

Yeah I queue up looking for an in-progress group for some easy tomes but end up thrown into a fresh group sometimes and will decline it. Though I know that messes with people so I only go once and will then uncheck that particular instance when I try again.

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Well at least you admit to it. Can't say I like the way you do things, but whatever.

ITT Tanks who get instant queues wondering why someone would possibly go afk after queuing.

Protip: DPS have to wait 30-60 minutes for most end game instances. I have had to wait over 2 hours for AK before.

I sometimes can't do anything and it auto declined because I would be on my alt class and stuck in a fate that forbid me from switching back to the queued class to click confirm.