Suggestion: Close Raid Roulete Loophole (Using low ilevel to force low level raids)

[Iscah]

Question: I've seen someone do this just now after arriving in Syrcus Tower (I saw someone in what looked like level 1 glamour items but after loading into the next area they were kitted out in full armour), so I have to ask: Is this a reportable action?

You can't assume that person is the reason you got the low-level raid, because it relies on what they were wearing when they joined the queue, rather than what they were wearing when the duty window popped up.

They could have queued in full gear, then tried on some glamour outfits while they were waiting, and then couldn't switch back their equipment until they're in the raid.

Meanwhile the person who did deliberately strip off to cheat the queue is already back in full armour, and you'd never know it happened.

[Scryar]

I agree it being a problem that people abuse the system to get the 3 easier/quicker alliance raids. If one of the 24 people does this, all other 23 people queuing with that person also get that raid.
That's why get the same three arr raids 99% of the time. I like your idea. First I thought about them adjusting the rewards depending on the average finishing time of the raids but some people will still abuse the system to get the most braindead raid and I will have to do these raid with them. I'm honestly tired of always having to do the same three raids and I can't imagine the developer is happy with that.

[kidalutz]

Just saying whats preventing anyone from queuing up directly for the raid they want and doing something else with the music playing when the windows different so they can hear thier queue chime?

[Driavna]

Just saying whats preventing anyone from queuing up directly for the raid they want and doing something else with the music playing when the windows different so they can hear thier queue chime?

Not everyone has hours to sit there and wait. You can't even participate in certain Gold Saucer events so you are totally stuck, and again, the idea of that roulette was to help people directly queuing for that stuff.

[Kaethra]

The proposed fix won't actually fix the issue. There's a multitude of players who have yet to unlock the HW Alliance Raids. Whenever I run them and don't feel like doing HW, I just group with a friend of mine who hasn't. It will never pop since he's never done the quest.

[Driavna]

The proposed fix won't actually fix the issue. There's a multitude of players who have yet to unlock the HW Alliance Raids. Whenever I run them and don't feel like doing HW, I just group with a friend of mine who hasn't. It will never pop since he's never done the quest.

Another quick fix then: once you hit 60 the Alliance roulette is blocked till you unlock all wings of HW raid. Same goes for level 70 after ShB hits.

Note: Do the same with normal raids.

[Stanelis]

Unless they drastically increase the rewards for dun scaith or above raids there is no way I m running those. The only reason I queue in alliance raid roulette is because L50 raids can be forced, which despite being boring, have a low probability of wipe (WoD aside). I don't know, they could just either normalize the raids difficulty (because there is a gap between older raids than the wiping city of mach and the newer ones) or just make 2 alliance raid roulettes (one easy and one harder).

[Kuroka]

Its a roulet, ppl want roulets but many - like me - are sick of the lv 50 ones over and over and over again. I was dun scaith like 2x max and i leveled ALL jobs from lv60+ when we got that roulet.

They need to enforce it, for lv 61+ you gotta have Void ark and Mhach at least unlocked and min ilvl and for 71+ Rabanastre + Ridorana and min ilvl. Same for the Lv 50/60 and soon most likely 70 roulet. Either enforce max needed ilvl (and no the old 120/260/390 is easy enough to get) or split those roulets again.... Idm doing lv 50 stuff but lets be real, 9/10 its lv 50 stuff... and thats boring when being 64/70+...

[Iscah]

Just saying whats preventing anyone from queuing up directly for the raid they want and doing something else with the music playing when the windows different so they can hear thier queue chime?

Because the queue they want isn't the specific raid, it's the roulette and its associated daily bonuses.

BUT the roulette queue looks at your ilevel when you sign up, and won't put you into a raid with a higher minimum that you are equipped for.

So instead of letting the roulette put them into any duty they could normally be eligible for, they deliberately alter their current gear so they'll get the easiest raid possible. Effectively reducing the roulette from "could be good, could be bad" to only giving them the things they wanted, while still earning the roulette bonus. Which defeats the entire purpose of the roulette.

[Gwenorai]

I mean, it could work - though more likely people will just disconnect and hope to be booted so they can try again without eating a penalty.