Penalty for going to the toilet ...

[Warlyx]

You seem to be misunderstanding the concept of a queue. If you're in line at the post office, you can't "pause" to go the the bank and pick up your same place in the line with the same people when you return.

yes you can , its called ticket number...the number is at 35 now ....and my number is 2000....i can leave and come back that i dont lose my place

SE can show the number of #insert_your_role_here ahead of you

if there are 300 dps or 3 u can almost know how long u willl wait

[Jamillion]

yes you can , its called ticket number...the number is at 35 now ....and my number is 2000....i can leave and come back that i dont lose my place

SE can show the number of #insert_your_role_here ahead of you

if there are 300 dps or 3 u can almost know how long u willl wait

Again, another problem with that is that it assumes everyone is solo queuing at any given time and that no one ever withdrawals. It's simply not plausible.

[LaylaTsarra]

How about they send you a personal text message when your queue is ready?

[Lexia]

How about they send you a personal text message when your queue is ready?

There already a system in place like this if you play on PS4, the controller will chime will the queue pops, so if you play on PS4 just take the controller with you, not sure if pc can use this option.

[Reinha]

Queue pausing works fine. At least in WoW.

Imagine you're in a store queued up waiting to pay your stuff. The queue is long and you need the bathroom. In stead of taking your shopping cart to the toilets, you leave it in the queue. As the queue moves forward, your trolley is pushed forward with it. Either you come back before your trolley has reached the cashier, and everything is just as if you never left your spot. Or, your trolley has reached the cashier. In stead of being shoved to the side to wait for your return and requeuing, your trolley remains in first place in the queue and people simply move past it if you have not returned yet.

Let's say 10 people get past you (letter A) in the queue. The queue would normally pop for people in this order: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N... In stead it looks like this: B C D E F G H I J K A L M N... Players L, M, N and onwards will have the exact same queue time as if A never went afk and players B - K have the same queue time as if player A withdrew.

WoW implemented this queuing algorithm alongside with the ability to queue up for multiple things at once. If a queue popped, the other queues would be paused while you did your instance (allowing other queued people to get in past you). When exiting the completed instance, you would quite often get an instant queue pop for the next thing. Yet, I noticed no increase in queue time for the first queue. It was soooo convenient.

The only downside to this would be that the queue doesn't get shorter by the small amount of players who get withdrawn. But like I said, it's not a noticeable amount of time and if multiple queues at once were allowed, chaining all the instances you want to run would be super efficient. This is certainly one of the (many) quality-of-life things I miss from WoW...

[StouterTaru]

That the same thing as withdrawing and requeueing when you are back.

Except it's not.

Say you're number 4 on the healer queue list for Diadem. You hit the pause button, walk away for 3 minutes, and 7 healers have entered while you were away. You unpause, and you're next in line to be paired up.

Yes this could be horribly abused, so there would have to be a time limit on the pause before it times out, it would have to be done before your pairing starts for an instance, and there would need to be a limit on how often you can use it.

It could also kick on/off automatically when getting a CS for a quest.

[Lexia]

Yes this would be horribly abused,

There I fixed it for you cause there no could be you know it would be abused

[Moqi]

Imagine you're in a store queued up waiting to pay your stuff.

Finally someone with some sense, everybody arguing about how queues work and I'm like... has anyone ever been to a supermarket? If I have a full cart of groceries and the guy behind me only has a bottle of water, I'm gonna let him get in front of me. Guess what I just did? I paused my queue without having to withdraw or having to pause everyone else! It make perfect sense and it's absolutely SE's fault that you can't even go to the toilet without losing your spot. It is unreasonable to expect players to stare at the screen for hours to get in an instance.

[Koza]

Logitech G930, taking poops and doing house chores without missing dungeon queues for years.

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wirel.../dp/B003VANOFY

[Lexia]

it's absolutely SE's fault that you can't even go to the toilet without losing your spot. It is unreasonable to expect players to stare at the screen for hours to get in an instance.

What content are you doing that takes "hours" to queue for?