Make Instances More Convenient Please

[Naunet]

Due to the specifics of the programming, many of these requested features such as being able to choose which instance to teleport to or having the system prioritize whatever instance your party members are currently in would be very difficult to implement.

... Why would y'all program it in such a way that we can't do any of these things? It doesn't take a lot of foresight to think about how certain features would be fairly critical to the QoL of instanced zones.

[Airget]

... Why would y'all program it in such a way that we can't do any of these things? It doesn't take a lot of foresight to think about how certain features would be fairly critical to the QoL of instanced zones.

Because it's not a feature, it's a system designed to ease the load off zones while the server population is high, something which is only occurring in loche. So yes, it is silly to ask the dev team to design a system of choosing and making sure people go to the right instance on something which only occurs because of Ixion. The smarter idea would be redesigning the Ixion like FATEs so that this situation doesn't occur again.

[Texa]

something which is only occurring in loche.

Zone congestion happens with the Foxy Lady fate and S ranks too, especially on the bigger servers. That doesn't solve how they reintroduced the instance feature at the exact same time as the new group open world map content though. It's a temporary fix to another issue, but one that makes it a major pain to run things as intended with your group atm.

That said, they are going to do this again when the next expansion comes out and the it would be prudent to act on the issue before then. You'd think they would have learned after heavenward but nah.

[Arutan]

You'd think they would have learned after heavenward but nah.

SE? Learning something?

[Naunet]

Because it's not a feature, it's a system designed to ease the load off zones while the server population is high, something which is only occurring in loche. So yes, it is silly to ask the dev team to design a system of choosing and making sure people go to the right instance on something which only occurs because of Ixion. The smarter idea would be redesigning the Ixion like FATEs so that this situation doesn't occur again.

No. I can guarantee there will be instancing when the next expansion releases, too. They've already had two freaking years to fix the programming. There's simply no excuse.