Duty finder lockout for not pressing ready, is this new?

[Fornix]

Nope best thing since sliced bread. It's long overdue.

Obviously. As getting people locked out after a mere third miss over a full 24 hour period is a good thing. Its nothing more than a very poor decision. And I'm baffled to see just how many players apparently blindly accept such bs, rather than asking for the devs to implement an alternative system to hinder in progress fishing in normal queues without punishing occasional misses.

[LaylaTsarra]

Obviously. As getting people locked out after a mere third miss over a full 24 hour period is a good thing. Its nothing more than a very poor decision. And I'm baffled to see just how many players apparently blindly accept such bs, rather than asking for the devs to implement an alternative system to hinder in progress fishing in normal queues without punishing occasional misses.

No I'm baffled to see those complaining about it. It's not BS. You got it backwards. Those fishing for in progress or simply afk'ing are where the problem is. I shouldn't have to sit through 20+ withdrawals to get into a duty like Sycrus Tower. Thank you SE.

[Cynfael]

No I'm baffled to see those complaining about it. It's not BS. You got it backwards. Those fishing for in progress or simply afk'ing are where the problem is. Thank you SE.

As much as players queuing as DPS have it comparatively rough, they also contribute to the congestion by not being ready to confirm. Sure, there are usually a ton of replacements ready to go, but it seems that a lot of players shared this mentality of "my queue takes forever, anyway, so I'm going to go redecorate my bathroom, not check my game at all, and hope it doesn't come up". From past experience, the DPS slots are the ones that usually hold up the DF....

[Tupsi]

Obviously. As getting people locked out after a mere third miss over a full 24 hour period is a good thing. Its nothing more than a very poor decision. And I'm baffled to see just how many players apparently blindly accept such bs, rather than asking for the devs to implement an alternative system to hinder in progress fishing in normal queues without punishing occasional misses.

No one "blindly accepts it." It's just....

You. Have. 3. Strikes.

You miss it once? Np.
You miss it a second time? Np.
You miss it a 3rd time? Happens, it's only 30 minutes.

You withdraw after the window pops? Three times? There's no excuse. SE put it at 3 for a reason, yes emergencies happen, but 3x...in a row? Not likely.. Yes DPS queues can be long while everyone is leveling rog/nin, but it's really hard to deny this is a better change unless you were one of the many causing everyone to sit through 20-30+ "PLAYER HAS WITHDRAWN".

[WHS]

Obviously. As getting people locked out after a mere third miss over a full 24 hour period is a good thing. Its nothing more than a very poor decision. And I'm baffled to see just how many players apparently blindly accept such bs, rather than asking for the devs to implement an alternative system to hinder in progress fishing in normal queues without punishing occasional misses.

Why is it that complainers about the lockout such as yourself never mention its only 30 minutes per incident and resets fully the next day? Amazing you always seem to leave out that small detail.

[NyarukoW]

Why is it that complainers about the lockout such as yourself never mention its only 30 minutes per incident and resets fully the next day? Amazing you always seem to leave out that small detail.

It is about time they did this. For a couple day, it was beautiful how there was no withdraws, but starting on Friday, like 3 days later, people are starting to withdraw more, seems that penalty is not heavy enough and they are happy to blow it off.

A slap across the face, ..

You know what is a repeated slap cross the face. How it was before 2.4. You queue ST and you have to click commence 15 times in the next 10 minutes just to get in. And it was like this everytime over and over. That is a multiple slaps and total disrespect to the rest of the player base, taking everyone else for granted and expecting them to be there for you at your beck and call. Enough is enough.

[Kallera]

You know what is a repeated slap cross the face. How it was before 2.4. You queue ST and you have to click commence 15 times in the next 10 minutes just to get in. And it was like this everytime over and over. That is a multiple slaps and total disrespect to the rest of the player base, taking everyone else for granted and expecting them to be there for you at your beck and call. Enough is enough.

I don't much give a damn about your plight when I have friends that are getting locked out for duties they didn't withdraw from. As a DPS that has to go through monstrous wait time for the duty finder in the first place, I have 0 sympathy for your lousy 10 minutes for current content that had no shortage of runners queuing up.

This is a poorly implemented solution that punishes the innocent. It has to change.

[SummerRider]

I don't much give a shit about your plight when I have friends that are getting locked out for duties they didn't withdraw from. As a DPS that has to go through monstrous wait time for the duty finder in the first place, I have 0 sympathy for your lousy 10 minutes for current content that had no shortage of runners queuing up.

This is a poorly implemented solution that punishes the innocent. It has to change.

I'm not sure I follow what you are complaining about.
"I don't much give"-- I understand you don't care about others.
"friends that are getting locked" -- How are they getting locked out? You said they didn't withdraw from the duty, so how are they getting locked out?
"As a DPS ... monstrous wait time ... 0 sympathy" -- Ok I once again understand you don't care about others.

So I guess my clarification question is how are your "friends" getting locked out.

[NyarukoW]

I don't much give a damn about your plight ....

Exactly... Case in point of the entitled attitude. Everyone else on all the servers are all supposed to be there for your beck an call. I am sure now that you and your friend tripped over it and got a 30 minute lockout, you would not be doing this again. So this is the right way to do things. The collective punishment is fitting and appropriate so that people can not gang up and don't get to try and game the system. This was singularly the most obvious and good QOL fix and probably one of the best things to be released with 2.4.

[Kallera]

Exactly... Case in point of the entitled attitude. Everyone else on all the servers are all supposed to be there for your beck an call. I am sure now that you and your friend tripped over it and got a 30 minute lockout, you would not be doing this again. So this is the right way to do things. The collective punishment is fitting and appropriate so that people can not gang up and don't get to try and game the system.

I am not "gaming" any system! Where did I say *I* ran into the problem? I am seeing the bad results of this across twitter and other social media. The problem is that if and when a lockout does occur, it will guarantee drama and an extra 30 minutes, on top of the usual annoyance of playing a DPS character in df. All that, literally one phone call away. And it needn't even be your phone in a party!