Please consider option to exclude unlocked (not yet completed) contents from Roulette

[LazuliteKouha]

Having said all that, I'm still genuinely curious about your opinion.

If we're talking about abusing the roulette, aren't people already abusing it by intentionally using low level gears and/or unequipping pieces of their gears?
And adding an option to exclude unlocked but not yet completed duty from roulette would not affect this. (unless I'm missing something?)

I never experienced the Pharos Sirius example that you mentioned so CMIIW but that sounds more like a case of badly designed roulette, way too small pool of duties (and that is already including optional ones).
Could you give another example based on the roulettes that we currently have?
If we implement the option, what kind of abuse potential, how and on which roulette do you think it will be abused?

[Rongway]

I'm a bit confused, how does not doing sidequest/optional content considered abuse?
If I didn't do any sidequest/optional content, shouldn't that "punish" me instead?
I'll have less content on my roulette pool, thus longer queue time for me.

The way things currently are, a player can unlock only the minimum required number of duties, never unlock anything else, and reap the daily roulette reward with a 50% probability of getting either duty in some roulettes. A player should not be able to by their own action or inaction affect the outcome of the roulette to a point of predictability or exclude content from the roulette when the primary purpose of the roulette is to increase participation in the duties that make up that roulette.

If the roulette required a player to unlock every duty in the roulette up to their current level and MSQ progress, they would have an incentive to unlock--not even a requirement to complete, just to unlock--more content, and then they would have much more content for their roulette to select from, and everyone who was, e.g., Lv60 would be able to roulette into any Lv50 or 60 dungeon, thereby increasing the roulette fills for people queuing for specific Lv50 or Lv60 dungeons, shortening queue times for people running optional dungeons.

Sticking with the Lv60 example, only 2 out of the 17 Lv50 dungeons and only 5 of the 13 Lv60 dungeons are required. Which means 77% of the Lv50/60 dungeons are not required to unlock the roulette; thus people who want to run those optional dungeons face increased queue times.

If instead the roulette required all the side dungeons up to the current point in MSQ to be unlocked, it wouldn't be a major burden for a player to unlock a few dungeons at a time as they become available, but it would be a major benefit to the roulette and people queueing for those dungeons directly because more people would have those dungeons unlocked. Further, requiring more unlocked duties in the roulette for everyone could justify an increase in the roulette reward, increasing roulette participation by another factor.

I would like to emphasize that I didn't mean the option to pick what duties to exclude from the roulette, just the option to exclude not yet completed duties.
I'm assuming if people unlock any optional duty, they plan to complete it.
If I didn't care about a certain optional duty/content, I wouldn't even touch the NPC.
(I personally haven't found any situation/reason where I'd unlock an optional content but don't want to complete it, if there's any that people actually do, please let me know)

I understand your intent. Your proposal could still be used to avoid duties in a roulette. Of course people intend to complete things they unlock, at the time that they unlock them. They don't necessarily continue to intend to complete every duty after experiencing the duty once. A bad experience in a duty, such as a vote abandon after multiple wipes to The Thunder God or certain raid floors--can change someone's mind about completing the duty tonight or this week. I have seen people decide to put off completion of a duty they had unlocked until some time in the future when a specific friend would be online because the duty was too hard for them without their friend.

In such an event, they should not be allowed to run their roulette with the incomplete duty excluded. They should avoid running the roulette or deal with the possibility that they might roulette into that duty.

In my opinion, putting not yet completed duties inside roulette pool doesn't really make sense.
If someone want to complete a duty that they've unlocked (but not yet completed), they'd queue that particular duty directly anyway.
And the roulette is there to incentivize people to "help" them.

And yet the roulette currently allows players to run a roulette with only two duties unlocked, with no incentive for players to unlock additional duties, and that doesn't help people running most of the duties in the roulette at all.

I assume you mean the roulette should require unlocking all duties, including optional ones.
So, only people who unlock everything can access the roulette? How is this any good for the game?
I understand if your point of view is "roulette is to incentivize people to login daily" etc., but roulette is also there to incentivize people to "help" others who want to complete their duty with matchmaking.
If you make it so that only those who unlocked all duties can use the roulette, you'll reduce the amount of people they can matchmake with, longer queue time for them, and for you too cause there'll be less people who can use said roulette.

No. See above.

people already abusing it by intentionally using low level gears and/or unequipping pieces of their gears?
And adding an option to exclude unlocked but not yet completed duty from roulette would not affect this.

Could you give another example based on the roulettes that we currently have?

If we implement the option, what kind of abuse potential, how and on which roulette do you think it will be abused?

Coercing a roulette result through gear is a separate example but it's still the same example. Even if the roulettes were fixed so that one could not force Labyrinth of the Ancients by removing gear, there are people who would unlock and attempt the Ivalice or YorHa raids, have a bad experience, nope out of them, and use the option you're proposing to avoid doing them in roulette.

[Seera1024]

Coercing a roulette result through gear is a separate example but it's still the same example. Even if the roulettes were fixed so that one could not force Labyrinth of the Ancients by removing gear, there are people who would unlock and attempt the Ivalice or YorHa raids, have a bad experience, nope out of them, and use the option you're proposing to avoid doing them in roulette.

But why is what the OP suggests a bad thing? Why is excluding non-completed but unlocked duties in roulettes where there are more than a small handful of options a bad thing?

OP's suggestion would benefit the game more than your solution.

Your solution means they don't enter that roulette. Which means they don't get put into any duty. So if more people are queuing directly for the ones they do have unlocked, they face longer queue times if the person not wanting to do the optional dungeon is a healer or tank.

So if say a healer is not wanting to enter Kugane Castle without their friend but has unlocked it in anticipation of their friend coming on that night for them to do after they did their roulettes that night (assuming Kugane Castle didn't pop in the roulette). If said friend didn't come on and no one who was queueing for Kugane Castle directly, then the healer not entering the roulette actually slows queue progress down for everyone else.

Also what does your solution offer people in roulette that the OP's doesn't? Either solution means the people who are queuing for the optional dungeon aren't getting in any faster. Your solution just also happens to slow down people queuing for anything else that that player has completed that's in that roulette.

This option would make me more likely to go do the blue quests that unlock dungeons knowing that I would be able to go into the dungeons or trials when I'm ready to tackle new content and not just wanting to do a duty that I've done a number of times. Because I like to watch a video right before entering a new dungeon so that I know what I'm getting into. I may not necessarily have time the day I'm starting the quest to do the dungeon and I may not for a couple of days. And I may not want to do something new when I have time for queuing and doing a dungeon. Sometimes I gambled, especially if it was an alliance raid as so many people cheese their iLvl to try to get Labyrinth.

Personally, I wouldn't want someone who had a bad experience in any content to be forced to do it again before they are ready to retry it. Because they aren't in the right mind state that they can do it. They'll be more likely to mentally check out the first time they mess up a mechanic or the group messes up and wipes. I'd rather they try it again when they are ready.

[Rongway]

But why is what the OP suggests a bad thing? Why is excluding non-completed but unlocked duties in roulettes where there are more than a small handful of options a bad thing?

OP's suggestion would benefit the game more than your solution.

Your solution means they don't enter that roulette. Which means they don't get put into any duty. So if more people are queuing directly for the ones they do have unlocked, they face longer queue times if the person not wanting to do the optional dungeon is a healer or tank.

So if say a healer is not wanting to enter Kugane Castle without their friend but has unlocked it in anticipation of their friend coming on that night for them to do after they did their roulettes that night (assuming Kugane Castle didn't pop in the roulette). If said friend didn't come on and no one who was queueing for Kugane Castle directly, then the healer not entering the roulette actually slows queue progress down for everyone else.

Also what does your solution offer people in roulette that the OP's doesn't? Either solution means the people who are queuing for the optional dungeon aren't getting in any faster. Your solution just also happens to slow down people queuing for anything else that that player has completed that's in that roulette.

This option would make me more likely to go do the blue quests that unlock dungeons knowing that I would be able to go into the dungeons or trials when I'm ready to tackle new content and not just wanting to do a duty that I've done a number of times. Because I like to watch a video right before entering a new dungeon so that I know what I'm getting into. I may not necessarily have time the day I'm starting the quest to do the dungeon and I may not for a couple of days. And I may not want to do something new when I have time for queuing and doing a dungeon. Sometimes I gambled, especially if it was an alliance raid as so many people cheese their iLvl to try to get Labyrinth.

I addressed all that. Requiring people to have all available duties unlocked before granting them roulette access would increase the number of people available for more duties instead of allowing people to focus their roulettes on a small number of duties.

Personally, I wouldn't want someone who had a bad experience in any content to be forced to do it again before they are ready to retry it. Because they aren't in the right mind state that they can do it. They'll be more likely to mentally check out the first time they mess up a mechanic or the group messes up and wipes. I'd rather they try it again when they are ready.

They can avoid the duty by not running their roulette today or leaving the duty if their roulette puts them in it.

[Seera1024]

So they're supposed to make their group wait even longer for someone to join a roulette who has duty in progress checked if they don't want to run something? Or be forced to do something they don't want to do?

You still haven't explained how your solution for the OP's problem isn't worse than the OP's suggestion. Your mentioning of requiring all contents unlocked to do content is, imo, unrelated to the OP's suggestion beyond your own personal reason for not agreeing with the OP's suggestion. As it's completely different from the OP's suggestion, I would feel it should have its own topic to discuss its pros and cons and not be in this thread discussing the ability to exclude uncompleted duties from roulette.

Either your solution or the OP's suggestion ends up with the group with the optional content waiting the same amount of time.

It's a win-win for either group for the OP's suggestion.

The group wanting to do the optional content or open to doing the optional content get grouped together. The people who don't want to do said optional content is not forced to do that content. And a lot of people don't perform at their best when doing something they don't want to do. It also keeps the optional group from having to wait again for a filled group if the person leaves immediately. Might not be so bad if they are DPS or are in a 24 man raid, but if they are tank or healer in 4 or 8 man content then they would have to wait for a tank or healer who has duty in progress checked to come in. Or for them to leave and requeue. Which if only one had queued directly and that person was a DPS then they're waiting the 15+ minutes again for another set of players to join in.

I also still don't understand how it is abusable. It's not like your solution doesn't have the same outcome - the people queued for the optional content still have to wait the same amount of time in order to get into the dungeon. And maybe even longer if they get dropped into a group with someone willing to quit if they get that content. Yes, that person who left has a 30 minute lock out, but that doesn't make the group they left get a replacement any quicker.

I got into a group one time for a low level dungeon while I was leveling an alt - DPS class. I had queued directly for this dungeon as it was for the MSQ. Tank immediately leaves. Group decides to disband after not getting a replacement tank instantly after putting our group up for getting a replacement. I had to go wait another 15+ minutes to complete this dungeon. Yes, this would not have been solved by this solution as the tank was not a new player I don't think. But if this had been optional content and that tank had been new to the content and had not wanted in roulette, the OP's suggestion would have kept him out of the group and we would have had a higher chance of getting a tank that was open to doing that content and I wouldn't have had to wait an additional 15 minutes to complete the content.

[Rongway]

I got into a group one time for a low level dungeon while I was leveling an alt - DPS class. I had queued directly for this dungeon as it was for the MSQ. Tank immediately leaves. Group decides to disband after not getting a replacement tank instantly after putting our group up for getting a replacement. I had to go wait another 15+ minutes to complete this dungeon. Yes, this would not have been solved by this solution as the tank was not a new player I don't think. But if this had been optional content and that tank had been new to the content and had not wanted in roulette, the OP's suggestion would have kept him out of the group and we would have had a higher chance of getting a tank that was open to doing that content and I wouldn't have had to wait an additional 15 minutes to complete the content.

This is less a problem with DR:Leveling because there are only a few ARR dungeons, one HW dungeon, and one SB dungeon that are optional. But as I said before, 77% of the Lv50 and Lv60 dungeons are optional, which means there are many people who have access to DR:50/60/70 who can't even make it into over 3/4 of the roulette content, who are getting roulette rewards without actually helping fill queues for most of the duties in the roulette. If the roulette required everyone to unlock all the dungeons available to them up to their current MSQ progress, you would have many more tanks with optional duties in their roulettes and you wouldn't have to wait long for a replacement.