The Devs Listen to Us

[Katish]

It can go either way, and there is issue where the updates to roles needed are too infrequent and sometimes straight up delayed. The priority list is overall Tank > Healer > DPS, but because it updates with delay it often is inaccurate representation of actual needs. I had it go both ways, queueing in healer needed as healer for instant pops, and queuing for tank needed for instant pop as healer. The only thing thats actually clear from that is that tank and healer are, overall, less played than DPS but thats true of p much any mmo.

Yeah but that doesn't explain why in mentor roulette healer role needed is nonexistent where I have seen dps needed is what I'm saying. I think it's tanks>dps>healers where dps frequent too much of a majority when queuing for normal things that it offsets and skips straight to healer with the exception of alliance raids as a majority needed are DPS which would make sense given more likely dps needed is seen on them {I imagine this might be due to party queuings where healers and tanks are accounted for in the queue so it takes DPS even more so}

[Heroman3003]

Yeah but that doesn't explain why in mentor roulette healer role needed is nonexistent where I have seen dps needed is what I'm saying. I think it's tanks>dps>healers where dps frequent too much of a majority when queuing for normal things that it offsets and skips straight to healer with the exception of alliance raids as a majority needed are DPS.

Idk, I usually only see DPS needed in peak hours and barely ever outside Alliance, Trials and Raid roulettes. I do see healer regularly on any dungeon roulette tho, but usually only one or two of them. Might just be different DC thing.

[Katish]

Idk, I usually only see DPS needed in peak hours and barely ever outside Alliance, Trials and Raid roulettes. I do see healer regularly on any dungeon roulette tho, but usually only one or two of them. Might just be different DC thing.

That's because the ones queuing are dps so I imagine it skips to healer in priority order because dps are the majority of players as mentioned by you. Since lots of dps are queuing for it, it goes next in line outside alliance raids and trials sometimes where the dps may be seen needed because it requires more of them. It makes sense logically if that is the case as to why I've never seen healers appear in mentor roulette needed, despite them being an insta-queue and tanks sometimes not.

[Supersnow845]

The adventurer in need doesn’t reflect actual queue times because the system is designed to check tanks first

Say in the last 10 minutes
-50 tanks
-20 healers
-300 DPS

Have queued for the expert roulette, the system has a set amount based on queues that it will use to determine what constitutes being adventurer in need, say it decides that if there is less than 60 of a role that role is adventurer in need, it will check tanks first, see there less than 60 tanks and list that as adventurer in need despite there being less healers overall whos queues end up popping faster

It’s also why at 3am server time when all the queues are dead the queues all basically default to tank being adventurer in need; because there isn’t enough people for any of the roles but tank is checked first

About the only thing you can use adventurer in need to determine is if there is DPS in need for any roulette other than the alliance roulette then there is a current shortage of DPS at that singular time point, adventurer in need is useless at comparing tanks to healers

[Katish]

The adventurer in need doesn’t reflect actual queue times because the system is designed to check tanks first

Say in the last 10 minutes
-50 tanks
-20 healers
-300 DPS

Have queued for the expert roulette, the system has a set amount based on queues that it will use to determine what constitutes being adventurer in need, say it decides that if there is less than 60 of a role that role is adventurer in need, it will check tanks first, see there less than 60 tanks and list that as adventurer in need despite there being less healers overall whos queues end up popping faster

It’s also why at 3am server time when all the queues are dead the queues all basically default to tank being adventurer in need; because there isn’t enough people for any of the roles but tank is checked first

About the only thing you can use adventurer in need to determine is if there is DPS in need for any roulette other than the alliance roulette then there is a current shortage of DPS at that singular time point, adventurer in need is useless at comparing tanks to healers

This is what I suspect it is too or something like this anyway.

[Jeeqbit]

There should be no math done on a boolean check if there is math, they are doing it wrong lel. They should be checking yes or no, that's it.

Again, the lottery was conducted on an external server. The external server did not communicate the data at the expected time, so it defaulted to no (you didn't win the house) even though you did.

It's not about booleans but about how normally-working code can be inefficient on a large scale (like an MMO) and create a bottleneck.

The issue was https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...d233a2ab8e17b6

2. The lottery was conducted successfully, but the winning number was not communicated to the housing server

After investigating this issue, we discovered that, while the server responsible for conducting the lottery is functioning as intended, the results are not being properly relayed to the servers responsible for managing housing-related data.

Once this issue has been resolved, and lottery results can be relayed to the housing data servers without issue, it will be possible to confirm the lottery winners.

The lottery data that exists on the server responsible for processing results will be used to overwrite the housing server so that the correct data is reflected.

[Sindele]

You know, I watched a Mr. Happy video today about Criterion dungeons and he put out a point that makes a lot of sense:

Mount Rokkon's poor reward structure is the same as the previous V&C because it already 'sailed' (production wise) when the first one was out. He mentioned that the developers explained about a similar situation in Eureka, that only saw major positive changes in Pyros, because Pagos was already ahead at a development stage and they couldn't improve by then.

That's probably a symptom of how formulaic they work... The features across the expansion are consistent in what they deliver, so to change something on the go might not be as simple, sadly... But hey, I'm not a game developer, so that might not even be the case.

I am! And this can be how it works in some less agile companies. Given SE's rigid patch cadence and the size of an MMO project, it really wouldn't surprise me to know that that design was signed, sealed, and delivered months ago, and everyone involved was too deep in their next work to really go back and iterate - but it also suggests the outcry wasn't really big enough to force their hand. We've seen them move quickly when they think it matters.

ok yeah, make criterion dungeons drop loot that unlocks a third materia slot, yeah i'm sure that's so hard to implement, gonna take five years

they're just giving excuses, or maybe they're so bad that is unironically impossible for them

Unless there's precedent I can't think of for something like that already functioning in game, that'd be a significantly taller order than you might think it is. It's one thing to have an item step up from one amount of slots to another with no respect for its previous state, but just adding a third slot to an existing item without blowing up the item and creating a new one in its place would be a pretty significant systems-level change.. and with that comes a whole lot of QA.

[Reap00]

No they don't.

I appreciate that your keep the same consistent attitude in every post you make. I really enjoy your negativity man. Keep it up!

[Kaliesto]

Besides PLD being in the toilet (which wasn’t even a balance problem it was that they stupidly made it the “physical tank” in a tier of magical damage) HW was well balanced by MMO standards (a few messy patches but nothing major) and the jobs all had very unique identities

People complained when their job was weaker but besides PLD nothing to the Level they do these days when every job is exactly the same and they still can’t balance the jobs

I think what the jobs really need now is just inherent traits that give it unique buffs, movement options (like Dragoon Being able to jump higher than other jobs, might be fun for jump puzzles), and have gear that has specific traits only that job can use.

Or anything else at all, just something to give meaning to the jobs again.

[Stormpeaks]

I appreciate that your keep the same consistent attitude in every post you make. I really enjoy your negativity man. Keep it up!

Says the one who wants toxic positivity