What is the point of dungeon time limit?

[Seaside8]

Unless you remove these by either timing out or completing the dungeon it could bog down the server quickly if an unlimited amount of time was given.

I call bs on this...

The time limit comes into play only in rare occasions. I mean, how often have you personally reached the time limit? The removal of time limit would barely affect serve traffic.

Many other mmorpgs save instances by default until a player voluntarily resets the instance. Are you telling me that SE is so far behind in terms of server technology that they can't solve a problem that has been solved for years?

-To allow cushioning for multiple tries, but also a point when it's time to say "sorry, maybe this just isn't going to work"
- For when we *know* the party we're in is never going to make it but we don't want to be rude.

Do we need a time limit to be able to call that shot?

[Ninix]

I call bs on this...

Well, I mean, you can go ahead and do that, but the dev team has said as much (multiple times, even) when this question came up on the beta forums. And considering all the issues the duty servers had when the game launched (with people completely unable to do any duty-based story quests or dungeons because the servers were overloaded) I believe it. The entire reason the time limit is set so long is to avoid inconveniencing players as much as possible while still allowing the server to clean up instances that are wasting RAM and duty slots because some guy went AFK before the last boss. Because seriously, if you're running into the time limit on these dungeons you have much bigger problems than the time limit.

The way other MMOs allow players to "save" instances is irrelevant as this is not what we're talking about. When you're saved to a raid or heroic dungeon in WoW, your progression data is written to a hard disk somewhere, not kept in RAM. Hell, ARR does the same thing with Binding Coil.

[TirionCrey]

I call bs on this...

Your statement is BS. Yoshida said so himself...the time limit is there as a PRECAUTION to prevent this from happening. Of course most people go into the dungeon and just clear it and are done...doesn't change the fact that it was implemented as a precaution so people can't afk inside a dungeon and block 1 instance from being created cause they never left...

[RhazeCain]

If this mechanic were removed, you would have a lot of cases where people do a portion of the dungeon then mostly leave but 1 person stays to hold the instance open. That way can begin again later in the middle. I know because I've done this in other games for days on end.

Technical issues arising from that already discussed.

There was some Dev discussion of a "minimum item level" to be implemented. People too severely undergeared shouldn't be there at all. Go do something else to gear better, then come back.

[Duuude007]

I call bs on this...

The time limit comes into play only in rare occasions. I mean, how often have you personally reached the time limit?

Tried to do a DF Aurum Vale recently?