If no players are new to the duty, please allow us to skip cutscenes in Praetorium

[Aruji-sama]

I wholeheartedly understand where OP is coming from, and it's definitely a good reason, but as everyone as said, we can't really rule out people who would do toxic shit in game.

Even before the 'fix' people were already forcing logout by eliminating the client and logging back to force skip the cut scenes that were way longer than the current, so they could finish faster. Which then leave people who were new (aka me) locked completely in a continuous stream of long cut scenes.

Everything considered, the current format which is the trimmed version works the best, and unless SE decides to revamp it completely so everything is shown on battlefield akin to current instances, it's better to just leave it as it is.

[Alicie]

That's what the roulette already does. The rewards were significantly lower when you were still able to skip all the cutscenes.

It does so very poorly, exp should be 3-4x than it's now to justify running it.

[LeCorbeaux]

I'd like a compromise: You can at any time decide that you don't care about the roulette rewards and forfeit them by skipping the cutscenes.

Aside of that, Some new voice work for them would be much appreciated.

Me, I'll just continue running them with full cutscenes whenever I want something less hectic to wind down the day. For the WT level 50 dungeons, I'd much rather run The Wanderer's Palace unsynced anyway.

[Bubert]

I don’t mind the cut scenes. In fact I’m happy they are there. Means I can have a small break! Sip tea, do other things etc.
I wouldn’t skip them even if there’s an option to do so.

[Aidorouge]

I'd probably find the cutscenes tolerable if the rewards were higher/better to justify my time, but as they are, nah.

[CosmosNovaRose]

Wonder if there's a rework solution that doesn't have to touch the roulette rewards. My idea is that the cutscenes are removed entirely, and any voicework/dialogue is instead imported into the gameplay/battles of the duty so that we can inevitably dunk on Gaius before he finishes his monologue. New players still get the experience of the story, and veterans can simply mute the voice audio while the battles are untouched.

[Asari5]

see it like that:

the cutscenes are a good thing, otherwise you wouldnt get the rewards you go in there for

[Asako]

Please allow them to be skipped when you solo undersize it for WT level 50 dungeon.

Just Speedrun Brayflox HM. It's super fast.

[Immut]

Also if someone is new, let us kick them for making it take longer.

[TaleraRistain]

I understand that this could create a scenario where people will get annoyed when they get Praetorium with a new person but this could be remedied by granting extra experience points to compensate for the extra time spent in the duty or a similar extra reward.

This is already why you can get half a level or more from doing the MSQ roulette. You're paid for watching the cutscenes with the roulette reward. It used to give a lot less and people would speedrun the place and ruin the experience for new people who were constantly stuck in cutscenes instead of getting to fight, so they made cutscenes mandatory and massively increased the rewards to bribe us into doing it.

No cutscenes, no massive rewards. That's the tradeoff.