Please consider a time penalty for withdrawing from the duty finder!

[Faiyez]

No. People change their minds and decide they can't commit to the content. They should only be punished for leaving once they are actually IN the instance.

Punishing them for withdrawing defeats the entire point of the confirmation prompt.

Realize that this is a feature working as intended.

[Mayh]

No, please no.

People withdraw for all sorts of reasons.
I think the penalty for leaving the actual dungeon once its begun is justified.

[Toastup]

For CT, there needs to be a time penalty, if you want to craft etc... don't que for a raid. Tanks and healers waiting thru the entire countdown timer, only to withdrawal, and do it over again, it's getting silly, today alone we had a 33 withdrawal ct, which no 1 can argue is a bit ridiculous, after 2 withdrawals from it, u should be assessed a 5min timer before u can que again. Will start to cut down on the ridiculous amount of trolling that goes on, and honestly, if you disagree with this, you're more than likely guilty...just sayin'.

[Niwashi]

No. People change their minds and decide they can't commit to the content. They should only be punished for leaving once they are actually IN the instance.

Punishing them for withdrawing defeats the entire point of the confirmation prompt.

Nobody is talking about adding a penalty in that case. They're just talking about adding a rule that says you cannot queue again for a while, which is NOT a penalty if you don't even want to queue again for a while anyway. In cases where someone, as you yourself said, "can't commit to the content", then there's no punishment involved.

It might be ok to allow a single withdrawal just in the case of an accidental mis-click, but if your reason for withdrawing is anything else besides an accidental mis-click, then you're not going to be doing the content anyway. The only people who would even want to queue again right away after deliberately withdrawing are those who are abusing the system and griefing other players. Those are the only people who would be punished by this rule.

So, one withdraw should give no penalty, but if someone withdraws twice within 15 minutes, make them wait 15 or 20 minutes before they can queue again. That doesn't penalize any legitimate use of the system. It only affects the griefers (and hopefully should be enough to stop them).

[Raestloz]

For CT, there needs to be a time penalty, if you want to craft etc... don't que for a raid. Tanks and healers waiting thru the entire countdown timer, only to withdrawal, and do it over again, it's getting silly, today alone we had a 33 withdrawal ct, which no 1 can argue is a bit ridiculous, after 2 withdrawals from it, u should be assessed a 5min timer before u can que again. Will start to cut down on the ridiculous amount of trolling that goes on, and honestly, if you disagree with this, you're more than likely guilty...just sayin'.

I don't know man, waiting foe the queue as a DPS alone gives me enough time to level up. Seems kinda stupid to say don't do anything while queueing. The electricity bill doesn't pay itself

[Niwashi]

I don't know man, waiting foe the queue as a DPS alone gives me enough time to level up. Seems kinda stupid to say don't do anything while queueing. The electricity bill doesn't pay itself

Of course you can still do other things while queuing. Just stop doing them once the queue pops. If you're going to queue for a duty, then you need to give that duty priority over those other activities you do while you wait for it. As soon as it comes up you leave whatever else you were doing and run the duty that you queued for.

If something's too important to leave in the middle, then it's not suitable for filling that queue-waiting time. That still leaves quests, FATEs, hunting log, leves, and most crafting as suitable activities while you wait. (About the only thing I can think of that's not suitable is some of the more involved high-level crafting processes using rare hard-to-obtain items. If you want to craft, use the queue-waiting time to churn out a bunch of basic materials, and save the more involved and difficult crafting for some other time that you're not in queue.)

If by the time it pops you've changed your mind and want to give priority to some other activity and no longer want to run the dungeon now, well, that's fine too. But in that case, you're deciding you don't want to be in the queue, so not being able to queue again immediately doesn't affect you.

[GuardianX]

The queue in and out is really annoying. If a person withdraws once then there should be no penalty. If you do it twice in under 10 mins then it's fair to instill a 10 minute penalty. This way you don't punish those that have to back out for legitimate reasons.

[Shirai]

So withdrawing from a dungeon queue because I'm in the middle of a levequest, and accepting said dungeon queue will cause me to fail the quest and require me to use an additional allowance is "not a legitimate reason"?

So you're telling me that I'm only allowed to Craft, Gather, or Farm fates/mobs while waiting for dungeon queues?

DF gives you 45 seconds to respond, within that time it is easy to finish your craft or node, switch to the job you queued on and accept.
If you have just started a synth and haven't done any action on it yet you can cancel it without losing materials.
Same for mob farming, plenty of time to kill your mob and accept, Fates can be abandoned without penalty and while the LEVE argument is valid, you can decide to not do them while waiting for the DF to come up if allowance is that precious.

[DkDerek]

What needs to happen, is if one or two people drop out of...say CT...it needs to put us in anyways, allow us to kill trash with 20-22, continue looking while we clear the place.
You know, how every other MMO handles it.

[Mychael]

Sorry I don't see it poor plan plain and simple

See this:

I'd say a lockout that increases with the number of withdraws in a rolling 30 minute period:
1st: No lockout
2nd: 5m
3rd: 10m
4th: 30m