PLEASE make a majority of Gold Saucer games doable while in Duty Finder queue~!

[Velox]

Was thinking about this myself earlier. The Gold Saucer has the potential to be a great place to kill time whilst waiting for things... if for any reason we can't queue whilst using the attractions it'll ruin one of the primary uses of the entire feature.

I believe you have that backwards. The primary use of the Golden Saucer is to provide entertainment. If "time-killer" is anything, it would be a tertiary use (behind rewards).

[Nutz]

I believe you have that backwards. The primary use of the Golden Saucer is to provide entertainment. If "time-killer" is anything, it would be a tertiary use (behind rewards).

Well the entire game is a 'time-killer', just hopefully an entertaining one.

I imagine that anything that normally takes more than 1-2 minutes will block/ use DF. The basketball mini-game and anything else like it, I'd expect, should be activities you can enjoy while queued up. Possibly even TT against NPC's. They let you watch CSs and complete quests in queue and those can often take much longer than a game of TT (presumably -- you're only placing 4-5 cards).

[BigPapaSmurf]

Chocobo Racing - uses queue
Mini-Games - queue-able but forfeit mini-game upon queue-acceptance
Triple-Triad (NPC) - queue-able but forfeit match upon queue-acceptance
Triple-Triad (PVP) - queue-able but forfeit match upon queue-acceptance

Players will be warned their match will forfeit upon queue-acceptance.

It's their choice to chance/select the forfeiture.

People would know just to scrim instead of play in tournaments or "you surrender your card upon loss" matches.

This' how it should be done, hands down.

I don't want to have to not play Triple Triad while I wait on a DPS queue, that would be ludicrous.

If we can't at least scrim Triple Triad & queue simultaneously, that would be a huge shame.

[HakuroDK]

That awkward moment when people are outraged by something that may or may not affect something that doesn't yet exist in the game.

Just watch as minigames don't block Duty Finder, all of this outrage ends up being for naught, and yet someone chimes in and says "It's sad that we even had to be outraged about this in the first place" as if there was even the slightest threat that this was ever going to be a thing.

I've seen this thread pattern enough times to see where this is going.

[Shougun]

That awkward moment when people are outraged by something that may or may not affect something that doesn't yet exist in the game.

Just watch as minigames don't block Duty Finder, all of this outrage ends up being for naught, and yet someone chimes in and says "It's sad that we even had to be outraged about this in the first place" as if there was even the slightest threat that this was ever going to be a thing.

I've seen this thread pattern enough times to see where this is going.

Outrage is an interesting word choice... Preemptive notice of desire is probably better wording.

[VanilleFang]

Yeah, let people sign up for a duty, run off to play cards, then run to the fourms to complain how the DF should wait for them to finish a game.

This 100%.

[Haprimac]

Slighty off-topic, but... I'm very worried about that chocobo racing. Whenever I'm running with other players, even when I start ahead of them, I end up falling behind. I presume it's some sort of latency issue, but I can't see myself ever having a chance to win the races with such a disadvantage. D:

[WellFooled]

Slighty off-topic, but... I'm very worried about that chocobo racing. Whenever I'm running with other players, even when I start ahead of them, I end up falling behind. I presume it's some sort of latency issue, but I can't see myself ever having a chance to win the races with such a disadvantage. D:

Whenever I play an MMO with someone in the same room I always notice that our character's positions relative to each other are never the same between both games when we're moving. I think this has to do with how the game checks and then communicates our character's positions. I imagine that during chocobo races, when the game only has to keep track of the dozen or so players racing (instead of the potentially hundreds of players in the open world), that it can be made to communicate our player's positions to each other more effectively.

I'm not sure if this is what you're describing, but hold out hope!

[Eraqus]

Yea i was thinking about that Too. Put everything DOable while waiting For DF. if u put COMMENCE while ur playing cards or something else u Will automatically lose. Thats fair. Or esle u Will withdraw the DF and keep playing...

[Brianmj]

Yeah, let people sign up for a duty, run off to play cards, then run to the fourms to complain how the DF should wait for them to finish a game.

Hahaha.
15 seconds added to DF won't hurt anyone...

Where is that thread?