When will Forked Tower stop keeping players Hostage in instance?

[AmiableApkallu]

Wait there is another problem hidden behind the entry problem?

It's not the entry system, per se. It's the fact that the up-to-48 people in Forked Tower still count against South Horn's population cap of 72 per instance. So, there can be only up-to-24 other players wandering about South Horn.

[TaleraRistain]

It's not the entry system, per se. It's the fact that the up-to-48 people in Forked Tower still count against South Horn's population cap of 72 per instance. So, there can be only up-to-24 other players wandering about South Horn.

Yep, this, exactly. And if you zone out and try to find another instance especially during prime time, you run into another instance with a raid going on. So you can't even go find a fresh instance to do FATEs and CEs in sometimes.

And the people in FTB are taken into consideration so some things can take forever if they just disappear into there. Plus less people at CEs means less people to help raise and more potential to fail the CE. I've seen that happen with Calamity because that's often rather disorganized in how the portals are hit and it's usually numbers that helps mitigate that.

Things may be a little better with 7.3 because they're going to change things to lock the premade instances for some time period, though we don't know how long. It would honestly probably be better to just keep it locked since they went with this system so premade FTB stays off in their own instance and doesn't have to worry about random entries, and people who want to South Horn activities can do the activities without losing over half the people in the zone. I can see where that may tax their instance server, though. But they have definitely created another problem with this most recent change.