A plea for further refinement of the Duty Roulette algorithm

[Kurando]

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Then it begs the issue, what would be the point of Roulettes such as 50/60, 70 and Expert where you don't actually lose that many levels queuing up for them, as opposed to using Leveling roulette and getting something like Sastasha which creates a big difference in min/max levels. Like I get what people are saying, though we may have groups purposely going through the PF recruiting high level players to influence getting a duty no less than 10 levels difference, while the players who actually need the duties (for MSQ) could suffer longer queue times as a result of those bypassing to use PF before the DF.

[Rongway]

Though true, this is also irrelevant. The request here is that the roulette, quite simply, not be random.

It is relevant. It's a roulette. Adding bias will allow abuses such as this:

we may have groups purposely going through the PF recruiting high level players to influence getting a duty no less than 10 levels difference, while the players who actually need the duties (for MSQ) could suffer longer queue times as a result of those bypassing to use PF before the DF.

Assume that the people who queue up as complete parties will still queue up as complete parties regardless. That means even if they are more likely to queue up, it won't help any additional people needing fills. However, such a change could reduce the number of incomplete parties queuing up, as people who are not currently queuing as complete parties might start queuing up as complete parties in order to bias their roulettes toward more current dungeons. Therefore adding a bias to the roulette would be a bad thing.

Roulettes aren't there to serve the needs of complete parties. Any accommodations added to roulettes should be for the benefit of the people who need them; not the people who want to run them without contributing to the people they're meant to help.