Our cries have been answered!

[LittleArrow]

^ Seems like this guy is one of the people who will be affected by this change.


This is excellent. You queue'd for something, you withdraw more than three times, now you can't queue for a day. This is excellent.

So you've never made a premade group and then a FC member asked if they could go just as the que popped and withdrew? That happens all the time when I play.

[NyarukoW]

So you've never made a premade group and then a FC member asked if they could go just as the que popped and withdrew? That happens all the time when I play.

Easy solution to that. Click commence go into instance. If they really have to go, they can take a 30 minute penalty and leave. Done, piece of cake. Otherwise if it is just the bathroom, people can wait 2 minute in the instance it will be better than the endless withdrawal nonsense. This way people are communicating and working it out.

Some queues can get pretty long. You get up for a drink, have to use the restroom, you're in the middle of crafting or you're in battle on the wrong class at the wrong time and all of a sudden you're down a strike.
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No you won't. Run away from the monster and you will be able to switch class in less than 30 seconds. Abandon your craft. You are taking for granted the time of other players. Beside you got 45 seconds to wrap up whatever you are doing.

[Giantbane]

No you won't. Run away from the monster and you will be able to switch class in less than 30 seconds. Abandon your craft. You are taking for granted the time of other players. Beside you got 45 seconds to wrap up whatever you are doing.

Yes you will. There are a number of very dense areas in the game where it can take you over a minute to get out of combat, particularly beastman strongholds where a lot of daily quests are (that should be a reasonable thing to do during a long queue). Abandoning your craft is not a good solution, crafting should be a reasonable thing to do during a long queue but now you have to risk potentially expensive materials against losing a strike in a queue because it pops at the wrong time. 1 minute is just not all that long when you're in the middle of doing something else. Any bit of lag or disruption will cause a problem

You have to realize the the PRIMARY problem with this is fishing for in progress queues. There's no other reason why you see the abandon queue with the frequency we do now. Why hurt everyone when they should be addressing that specific problem. Instead they release a poorly thought out, overly strict solution and call it a day.

The withdrawals from queues IS a problem and it DID need to be fixed. But they can do much better, and it is very disappointing that this is all they have come up with.

I don't think so at all, you're queuing up for something which is essentially saying "I'm ready, lets do this." Sure you have to wait if your a DPS generally but if you know somethings going to come up than withdraw before the notice pops up and or once your in your dungeon let your party know that "Hey I need to go to the restroom or can I grab a snack real quick." and generally I'd think most people would be ok to this having to wait 2-4 minutes more than having someone drop out and letting DF take another 10-20 minutes finding a rep.

If it takes 10-20 minutes to find a rep, it's because the person that dropped has no desire to start at the beginning of the dungeon right now, and he was the only person available to join your group. If the person goes to the bathroom, they will be back in the queue within that same period of time, and your group is still at the front of the line, so he will rejoin and you will not have to wait any longer (although you'll not be sitting around in a dungeon twiddling your thumbs either).