Congrats guys, you can no longer HQ Craft while waiting for the DF queue

[Zedd702]

quoting from prelim patch note 2.4:



I don't understand the reason that lead to decision for implementing this punishment. Seems like SE forcing us to stare on the game more intently and having hard time to do stuff to kill time like crafting or alt-tabbing to browse web and stuff.

I remember each time I log in on XIV 1.0 that it always pop message about real life stuff reminder and never abandon those that takes priority. ARR don't have such thing anymore. In fact, it seems to force us to neglect RL more.

Actually I like this change. ST is a grand example for this... 24 players waiting to for the damned dungeon to queue, there's always ONE person who times out 2-3 times or ultimately withdraws from the DF altogether, while others have been queued for a long time.

One night it triggered 5-6 times after waiting 30+ minutes then had to wait 20 more minutes on it to trigger 2 more times then finally after a total of (iirc) 1 hr 06 minutes... If you are preoccupied with another task, don't clog DF and inconvenience others that have been patiently waiting. If you need that HQ item, ya better craft it or be sure you can complete it before DF triggers.

Furthermore, it's not making you neglect RL at all. If you are not available, don't queue and hold everyone up. It's simple really.

It's actually more inconsiderate to queue up when there are others that also don't have much time to play are being inconvenienced by the hold up of people walking away when DF triggers multiple times, waiting to finish HQ items on everyone elses time that have been waiting, or organizing retainers etc...