Locked out of the Duty Finder.

[polyphonica]

The game should not be imposing lockouts on you based on someone else's behavior. Period.

Well, then the real thing to rework is that one party member's withdrawal should not trump the whole rest of the group being ready, because right now that one person's behaviour does count exactly the same is if you yourself hit the withdraw button. Perhaps they should just make it so that the whole decision resides with the party leader. When the queue pops, the Party Leader decides whether to accept or not (up to them if they want to do a ready check or whatever), and if they accept, everyone else has the remaining time to either agree, or be booted from the party. This could result in more "gaps" to be filled by in-progress, but in that scenario it would make total sense for the lockout to only apply to the person who withdrew, because then rest of the party was allowed to commence anyway. It reduces queue failures in favour of more partial-parties.

[Niwashi]

Perhaps they should just make it so that the whole decision resides with the party leader. When the queue pops, the Party Leader decides whether to accept or not (up to them if they want to do a ready check or whatever), and if they accept, everyone else has the remaining time to either agree, or be booted from the party. This could result in more "gaps" to be filled by in-progress, but in that scenario it would make total sense for the lockout to only apply to the person who withdrew, because then rest of the party was allowed to commence anyway. It reduces queue failures in favour of more partial-parties.

Auto-withdraw from your party if you withdraw from a queue that the rest of your party accepts might not be a bad idea, but it seems like it would still be a queue failure. Someone withdrew and so you didn't have a full party formed. DF would keep trying to fill the open spot, the same as if they'd queued individually and withdrawn. The difference would be that the rest of the party isn't knocked out of the queue at the same time, (which is a problem regardless of whether there are additional penalties involved or not).