How to fix Castrum and Praetorium

[Giantbane]

The big problem right now with speed running story instances is that the bosses can be initiated way before one or two people are even ready, or thus still in a cut scene. It creates a unjust way of forcing players through a dungeon, and possibly making them skip that said boss (which was my case in my first prea)

By locking out the boss until a cut scene is over, if players really want to speed run they can skip or burn the mobs to their hearts content, but can't bully you into forcing a fight you might not even get to be a part of. The large majority of bosses have very short cut scenes, its really just these two dungeons people have a issue with.

It should be understood that by queuing a story instance, YOU MAY HAVE TO SIT THROUGH SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO KNOW THE STORY.

Cutscenes require user input to progress, they don't just end on their own. You could potentially have someone troll the entire group by just sitting in a cutscene and locking out the entire group from progressing.

This is a bad solution.

Couldn't you achieve the exact same thing just by doing a forced ready check on people before bosses? That way nobody can go in until everyone is marked as ready.

also not a good solution, see above

[ZeroRains]

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This would be the downside true, I wonder what would help with this

[Giantbane]

This would be the downside true, I wonder what would help with this

I don't know. For current content? Maybe have cutscenes play that will finish on their own, require no user input, everybody has to watch it. Then boost the participation rewards such that they're worth doing while watching cutscenes.

However, for future content, I think SE needs to learn that it can't put a bunch of long cutscenes interspersed into a long dungeon like that. They need to tell the story within a dungeon in a more interactive way, instead of having us sit back and watch 30 minutes worth of movie in the middle of it.