MSQ roulette and AFK

[van_arn]

I think there's something weird with some of the cutscenes since ShB (or maybe earlier). I have an SSD and used to reliably load either first or tied for first, but since ShB, certain cutscenes seem to always result in the person who triggered them coming out of them 20 seconds or more before anyone else. The most obvious example of this is the cutscene immediately prior to fighting Gaius on the elevator.

That's a language thing. The Japanese localization finishes before the English one, for example. At least, that's what I've heard.

[LunarEmerald]

I personally feel the dungeons shouldn't have a i130 sync. It makes them boring and ruins any atmosphere or experience new players might have. All this dramatic build up and the boss gets face rolled in 30 seconds. Change the sync to i70. Which would be the best non capped gear available at the time of ARR's release. Maybe if they had some sort of challenge again, people would find them more engaging to do and not afk.

[Nixxe]

That's a language thing. The Japanese localization finishes before the English one, for example. At least, that's what I've heard.

I hadn't considered that since it seems they won't let you change the pace at which the text auto-advances, but I'll keep that in mind and test it out when I feel like leveling another job.

I personally feel the dungeons shouldn't have a i130 sync. It makes them boring and ruins any atmosphere or experience new players might have. All this dramatic build up and the boss gets face rolled in 30 seconds. Change the sync to i70. Which would be the best non capped gear available at the time of ARR's release. Maybe if they had some sort of challenge again, people would find them more engaging to do and not afk.

If the dungeons are even remotely difficult or have any chance of failure, I'd just not run them again. The XP reward would have to be utterly absurd for me to want to risk wiping in ancient content I've done dozens of times while playing a gimpy character that hits like a wet noodle and has -5 abilities.

[LunarEmerald]

I hadn't considered that since it seems they won't let you change the pace at which the text auto-advances, but I'll keep that in mind and test it out when I feel like leveling another job.



If the dungeons are even remotely difficult or have any chance of failure, I'd just not run them again. The XP reward would have to be utterly absurd for me to want to risk wiping in ancient content I've done dozens of times while playing a gimpy character that hits like a wet noodle and has -5 abilities.

13 million at level 79 IS absurd.

[KageTokage]

13 million at level 79 IS absurd.

That's around the amount you get from doing a full run of the 79 dungeon, except that takes less time.

That said, if you actually need the tomestones the MSQ roulette might be better still.

[LunarEmerald]

That's around the amount you get from doing a full run of the 79 dungeon, except that takes less time.

That said, if you actually need the tomestones the MSQ roulette might be better still.

Not even close. 13 million is 2 runs of the 79 dungeon.

[van_arn]

Not even close. 13 million is 2 runs of the 79 dungeon.

Or an entire map's worth of sidequests at that level!

[Tempest222]

There are probably lots of people unintentionally afking because the cut scenes are so insanely long that they have fallen asleep or gotten embroiled in something else and forget to check back with the game.

The few times I have run this roulette since the change and have gotten unlucky by getting the praetorium have been frustrating because I do not have multiple monitors, so if I want to do something else I have to click away from the game, and then I don’t know when there is a break in the movie and have to keep checking and checking. I wished I could set it so it would play a sound at the end of a cut scene when the game is not the active window. Potentially something like that to notify people that there’s a break in the cut scenes when they are clicked away would help. Or alternatively just make these dungeons solo.

[MrKusakabe]

There are probably lots of people unintentionally afking because the cut scenes are so insanely long that they have fallen asleep or gotten embroiled in something else and forget to check back with the game.

The few times I have run this roulette since the change and have gotten unlucky by getting the praetorium have been frustrating because I do not have multiple monitors, so if I want to do something else I have to click away from the game, and then I don’t know when there is a break in the movie and have to keep checking and checking. I wished I could set it so it would play a sound at the end of a cut scene when the game is not the active window. Potentially something like that to notify people that there’s a break in the cut scenes when they are clicked away would help. Or alternatively just make these dungeons solo.

You fear about the possibility to go AFK/getting AFK players because of the lack of a multi-monitor setup?? As if this is normal... Haha, oh my!

Anyways, since...at very least Windows8 you can mouse-over a window and get a real-time preview. When I wait for a duty and have nothing else to do ingame (or don't want to do anything else) then I put up a Youtube video and place the mouse cursor over the FFXIV icon in the taskbar. So I have a PIP and can easily check what's going on ingame. That is the plus side of it going window mode when Alt+Tabbing out of the game because fullscreen Direct3D programs don't have a preview or just the last frame in the cache displayed..

[NyteKitsune]

Yes, People being afk in a duty can be annoying, but remember to give some people a little time, after all, RL happens (Had to answer phone or door, kids need something, bio break, etc.). Now as a general rule I give afk's about 5mins. After that I assume they are either not coming back or as does happen are LD and their character hasn't gotten booted yet (some of those do take awhile before it shows someone as offline). To those that do go AFK, please at least type something into party chat even a simple "AFK, BRB" is usually enough to satisfy "most" of us, just try to be quick about it.