Penalty for going to the toilet ...

[zosia]

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

guess we know you don't pvp =p

[Pomelo]

When I queue for pvp, I can literally have a nap, and use the "pop" sound to wake me up..


Needless to say, my naps end up being extremely long.

[Niwashi]

Or they could, you know, let you pause your queue and resume when you're back.

And force the others, who have the bad luck to be in queue with you, also to pause until you are back?

No. If there are enough other people in the queue, they'd be matched with each other and start while you're gone. You'd be matched with someone else after you return. (If there's not enough other people to form a group without you, then yes they'd have to wait, but they would anyway if you withdrew or failed to commence.)

A pause in your queuing is a temporary withdrawal that saves your priority for a couple minutes so you can return where you left off. Until your return, the system acts just as though you'd withdrawn, matching other players with whoever is still available. After you return, it acts as though you'd never left, matching you and everyone left with a priority based on when you'd first queued.

(Or perhaps they deduct the time you're away from your priority. For instance, if you queue at noon, then at 1pm leave for 5 minutes and come back, it could then set your priority as though you'd queued at 12:05. But the point is that it would not drop your priority all the way back to a 1:05 queuing time, like withdrawing and queuing again would do.)

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

How hard is it to use the toilet before queuing up?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

How hard is it to use the toilet before queuing up?

As hard as crafters making 3 star recipes before a que.

[Atoli]

How hard is it to use the toilet before queuing up?

My queues are long enough to warrant several bathroom breaks before they pop. 9 hours waiting time for PvP? Check.