Request: Separating combat duty penalty from non-combat ones

[MariaArvana]

Say you just quit a combat duty like an expert roulette. You get slapped with the 30min penalty, right? Well if you were gonna go to diadem or do chocobo racing, you can't. Can't even participate in LoV or triple triad. You're literally locked out of any duty that reserves an instance, even if you're not doing any combat.

I mean, it is a punishment for abandoning a group of people trying to clear an instance. If people could just leave then go do Diadem for 30mins or go do GS instance activities to kill the time, it wouldn't be as effective a punishment.

I doubt it can be de-coupled anyway, nor would they want to de-couple it, given all instance-based reservation systems use the DF coding, and the punishment specifically prevents the player from executing DF system functions, while doubling as extra incentive to make people think twice about leaving. Next time you think about leaving an instance, make sure you have something planned for the next 30 minutes that doesn't involve the 95% of content that's behind instances, or just slug it out.