Make Instances More Convenient Please

[LathusWHM]

I fully agree that they should only make 2 dungeons for leveling and only grind out side quests when you run out of MSQ. I think dungeons are a major inconvenience and do not provide any sense of story, or something different to do or look forward to. It's absurd that SE would add enough content to keep everyone excited to see new stuff.

How dare they expect us to have too much content to work with!!!

[Naunet]

I think you very much misunderstood the thread, Lathus...

[LathusWHM]

I'm just tired of coming to the forums looking for constructive conversation and all it is are newish players or casual players complaining about this, complaining about that and those and everything.

It gets so exhausting to see people just NOT want to learn what they have in front of them and just expect devs to just "change" everything so it's convenient for them. Play the game or go play wow.

[Zarabeth]

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This thread is about the instances that are forced on everyone right now in the new areas due to the Ixion fight. When Ixion pops (and a while before due to campers) the zone fills up very quickly and no one can get into the area. They put in instances to stop this, but they are really annoying as most of the time if you teleport in a party you end up in different instances. Which means you need to leave the area and come back in to get the right one.

[Texa]

I'm just tired of coming to the forums

You are literally doing all of the things you're complaining about right now.

[Altena]

Honestly.. They had 2 years to get it right between HW and SB...
I was extremely surprised that we still had the same horribly clunky system that was around in HW.
They didn't even touch it after all of the negative feedback around instances.

Don't get me wrong, I am totally fine with open world instances... However the implementation in this game is really horrible.

[White_Wolf_X]

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.

Once again with the "Due to the specifics of the programming" ... really if FFXIV "programming" is so shit, why the hell don't you rebuild it.

FFXIV A realm reborn again.

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[Texa]

Once again with the "Due to the specifics of the programming" ... really if FFXIV "programming" is so shit, why the hell don't you rebuild it.

They were working with some impressive spaghetti code from the get go and it's just gotten worse and worse over the years. They don't have the time or budget to redo it all, but some specific things like this and glamour are probably worth their time to fix even if it's a huge pain.

[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.