SE needs to implement queues for zones / instances

[DoH]

Other than the queues to get into the game and actually play it, it is almost impossible to do any sort of hunts these days. Every single time an S rank or world-boss FATE gets called via Discord or a CWLS, I cannot get into the proper instance on my own server/world despite trying 50+ times at the aetheryte to get in. And if you fail to get in, you have to repeat the entire process of re-clicking on the dumb thing and going through the entire menu again. It's just like queues when Endwalker first dropped where if you got 2002'ed, you had to start the login process all over again. By the time it finally lets me it a zone, it's almost always because people have started leaving the zone because the mark is already dead.

SE, fix your crappy game that is unable to handle even 150 people being in the same zone at once. Make a queue for zones/instances instead of just kicking players back and making them try to spam to get in. This is almost as ridiculous and stupid as your crappy housing system where players had to sit there and click on a placard for hours on end hoping they'd click on it at just the right time.

Alright, now I'm ready for all the white knights to come defend this crappy game - please proceed!

EDIT: For all of the folks who are saying this isn't an issue:
https://youtu.be/SZe4N61IxJ0

[Havenchild]

Funny I was just in a CHI instance with 600 people...You know you could just get into a party instead of doing Hunts solo. It literally bypasses the Instance Congestion in favor of getting all party members together.

So yeah it's probably a you problem.

[Veliaire]

Try joining a party via Party Finder. Good luck adventuring!

[Darthgummibear]

Funny I was just in a CHI instance with 600 people...You know you could just get into a party instead of doing Hunts solo. It literally bypasses the Instance Congestion in favor of getting all party members together.

So yeah it's probably a you problem.

That was nuts. There were so many people on the platform the game would only render a fraction of them at a time. I did end up getting my mount though

[Hasrat]

I'll throw in a bonus "hunts aren't meant for the whole server to show up for the kill." If you're not helping spawn an S rank (I'm just assuming there's still work to spawning those...) then you really can't complain about not participating.

[Amarande]

I mean work is a relative statement, as someone who used to spawn S-Ranks on the reg back on the day, because spawn triggers vary so wildly.

Some are super simple (like discard a rail tenderloin anywhere in Lakeland for a chance to pop Tyger) or even entirely automatic (like Croakadile or Laideronnette).

Others border on the utterly obnoxious (like the number of mobs needed to be killed for Ixtab, or the two maps based S-ranks where you're not even guaranteed a spawn even if the window is past maximum - I still remember the one night I emptied half of Primal's servers' market boards of Peisteskin maps in an attempt to spawn Agrippa who'd passed his max window, and yet still was not successful).

But yes, much as we want to be as inclusive as possible with hunts, sadly it looks like going forward it's just going to be a scramble to get a piece of the pie due to inherent limitations of the system. Not really much SE can even do for it either in terms of raising limits, unless you like the idea of going back to the bad old MMO days like Lich King era Dalaran where you needed a high end PC to even move at a reasonable rate while in a large crowd such as things like cities, available housing, and hunts are going to attract.

To be fair a zone queue would be a nice thing though, especially for newbies and casuals who are just trying to do MSQ or some casual gathering and may not participate in or even be aware of hunt culture and then all of a sudden get told out of the blue that they can't enter the zone they were planning on visiting

[Jojoya]

Other than the queues to get into the game and actually play it, it is almost impossible to do any sort of hunts these days. Every single time an S rank or world-boss FATE gets called via Discord or a CWLS, I cannot get into the proper instance on my own server/world despite trying 50+ times at the aetheryte to get in. And if you fail to get in, you have to repeat the entire process of re-clicking on the dumb thing and going through the entire menu again. It's just like queues when Endwalker first dropped where if you got 2002'ed, you had to start the login process all over again. By the time it finally lets me it a zone, it's almost always because people have started leaving the zone because the mark is already dead.

SE, fix your crappy game that is unable to handle even 150 people being in the same zone at once. Make a queue for zones/instances instead of just kicking players back and making them try to spam to get in. This is almost as ridiculous and stupid as your crappy housing system where players had to sit there and click on a placard for hours on end hoping they'd click on it at just the right time.

Alright, now I'm ready for all the white knights to come defend this crappy game - please proceed!

A queue isn't going to put you into any better position. Things are still going to be dead before you get in because the content was never designed to have so many players in attendance.

We go through this the start of every expansion. I don't understand why anyone is expecting it to be different this time around, especially considering world populations are at unprecedented highs.

The crowds will thin out a couple of weeks after Savage is released and raiders are no longer relying on pentamelded crafted gear made with tomestone materials. Be patient. If you want to farm your tomestones and materia before then (not like Nuts are good for anything other than materia right now), chain run Expert dungeons.

[Kuroka]

While all the cons are true as well... yeah i dont see why this isnt a thing... im sick of not entering a zone bc of that, even if im there literally the second it was posted and just had back luck with where my teleport got me...

[DamianFatale]

Funny I was just in a CHI instance with 600 people...You know you could just get into a party instead of doing Hunts solo. It literally bypasses the Instance Congestion in favor of getting all party members together.

So yeah it's probably a you problem.

I wouldn't call it a "you problem". I don't like her comments about the game being crappy, but not getting into a zone to do hunts is a valid thing to be unhappy about. It's a basic feature that should be easier for all players to participate in.

[Havenchild]

I wouldn't call it a "you problem". I don't like her comments about the game being crappy, but not getting into a zone to do hunts is a valid thing to be unhappy about. It's a basic feature that should be easier for all players to participate in.

Sorry but this isn't really an issue. If you get into a party, you can get into the instance if even 1 person is in there. If you trying to solo hunts and having a bad time, using your brain alittle is free.