Up Commencement Time to 60 Seconds

[Fynlar]

Thank you, I really don't want to have to wait around longer. Already annoying waiting what I do when people just want to troll by clicking at last second.

Uhh, a lot of those dudes accepting at the last second aren't trolling, that's the point. I've had numerous instances where I either was not able or barely able to switch in time, many of which happened after the change that made Return/Teleport unusable in combat.

Why is it ridiculous for you to play the class you queue as? If you're a DPS why would you switch off of DPS to go farm the open world?

Because there's a lot a DPS can't even do well on their own.

Want to do A/S hunts? Have fun with your crap evaluations because they decided to make it all enmity-based for some reason.

Want to kill a B hunt for your weekly? Unless you're totally decked out or something, good luck doing that without your chocobo (which you can't even call when queued) or other help.

Even some FATEs for books/daily hunts can be challenge to do as a DPS if no help shows up + the FATE has been leveled up by a previous iteration.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Story quests and load zones seem like somewhat reasonable tasks to execute while waiting for a long queue, and don't strike me as players trying to game the system. Particularly when the queue estimate time is incorrect.

And this would not be entirely in their favor, the suggestion is for the DF queue to skip over them so it would increase that player's wait time by whatever amount.

Loading, yes. Cutscenes, no. You could easily grief other players by not advancing the cutscene.

[subteraneanbird]

Want to do A/S hunts?

Why are you trying to solo group content as any class?

Want to kill a B hunt for your weekly?

This one's just a lie. DPS have a much easier time on b-ranks because you can actually kill it quickly. As a healer or tank it takes me several minutes to kill a b-rank.

Even some FATEs for books/daily hunts

This is, again, not solo content. Why are you trying to solo things that aren't meant to be? It's also worth noting that again, you still have the advantage. As a healer or tank these FATES will usually time out if tried solo. Every DPS can access defensive abilities. Use them.

[Guevara]

The timer was set at 45 seconds to give consideration to players who have already selected to commence the content, and as such we do not have any plans at the moment to increase this.

Sometime takes longer, from ps3, to load a zone =/

[Kletian]

I know that changing zones when playing on my slow computer is guaranteed to make the queue pop while I stare at the zone name with a black screen, hearing the ticks. Some zones do take longer than 45 seconds to load- the game has the CAPACITY to make the duty finder window clickable during the load transition (because if you alt f4 during this time, it gives you the official "do you want to close game" popup. They really should allow clicking commence during zone transitions.

[Cid_Grim]

The amount of exaggeration in this thread is ridiculous.

I've been aggroed in the mines when the duty pops. It is not difficult at all to pop sprint and find a corner within 45 seconds.

My girlfriend's power supply died so I had to replace it with an old one and swap her graphics card with a dinosaur as a temporary band aid. PS3 players get better load times than she does, but she never misses a queue.

TL;DR - this is getting ridiculous

[Delmontyb]

45 seconds is hardly even enough time to wrap a craft or to get out of combat to change Jobs.

With queue's lasting over 2 hours sometimes, it would be unreasonable to suggest we just idle (not get into combat, not craft, etc.).

60 Seconds seems reasonable, especially given the new withdrawal penalty.

15 more seconds wouldn't cause people to suffer too badly either, I mean honestly.

Seems like a reasonable request IMO.

[Delmontyb]

Another idea that I had was that if you are in a different role and the commencement pops up that when you confirm it automatically changes you back to the class you registered with

A good idea, would be very handy.

[Coatl]

Why are you trying to solo group content as any class?

You can't do solo content while you're que'd up either.

You can't start an important craft.
You can't watch any cutscenes.
Can't work on your relic as a class you're not qued up with.
Your only DPS is MNK so yeah no wonder you think you can tank B ranks easy peasy. Not so true for BLM.

I mean you can, but every time you do the commence window can pop up at the start of any of the above things and you'll more than likely have to inconvenience yourself.

[MageBlack]

I have a question about the withdraw penalty. Do i get the penalty if i queue up for a dungeon but withdraw before my queue commencement window pops?