Be Wiser! DF commence withdraw penalty affects your party.

[Marisela]

My assumption - and I'm sure it's a good one that most people would agree with - is that this mechanism was designed to deter in-progress hunting. Since you cannot join in-progress with a party, I see no reason why they couldn't keep the system as is to serve its purpose while removing it from pre-made party queues. This leaves only the vanishingly small number of people withdrawing as a party to troll individuals, but I suspect the number of occurrences of such an activity is negligible.

I have the same thought. The system is working perfect and it is definitely needed to prevent fishing, it is rather annoying. But since you can only "Join In Progress" when you are solo and not in party, why not just remove the commence penalty when in a pre-made party?

No need to abandon this system just because of it, we all know how fishing in progress can be very annoying. Even if this isn't fixed I rather have this system in place. Also, there a maintain today. Maybe they will fixed this issue and some issue they find during patch? I hope they don't remove it though.

[Alukah]

But since you can only "Join In Progress" when you are solo and not in party, why not just remove the commence penalty when in a pre-made party?

I feel like this was a major oversight, the penalty should only be applied to those who entered DF solo.