Duty Roulette (remove the one person limit)

[cotti]

Why discourage players from joining their friends? seriously.. who's bright idea was this?

From someone a bit bright, unlike someone who totally missed the point of the Roulette.

If it's to help other stuck in the queues.

What the...? Is that supposed to mean something?

Can't que up with 4 people or more.

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I personally hate that my hubby and I have to do an extra 40 x myth a day because we don't get to do roulette together, or we are forced to do content without each other, Great way to bring the community together.

Great to know your community is only you and your hubby. Because you helping someone stuck does not mean a thing to the community, right? That's not selfish at all.

Wow, it's such the end of the world having to do an extra 15-20m run to... Compensate something meant as a prize for helping in the first place.

[Lacerta]

Q: Will you be able to use the Duty Roulette when forming a party with 2 or 3 members?
A: We’ll be improving the Duty Finder extensively for 2.1, but I’m afraid the ability to participate in parties will take until 2.2.

Source: here.

2.2; Please look forward to it.

[frostmagemari]

Source: here.

2.2; Please look forward to it.

So yeah.. it wasn't any sort of design that SQE made it solo only.. it's that they can't seem to program their way out of a paper bag half the time.

[Kincard]

So yeah.. it wasn't any sort of design that SQE made it solo only.. it's that they can't seem to program their way out of a paper bag half the time.

Being a long-time player of XI, I can tell you that you should get comfortable with this.

[jomoru]

So yeah.. it wasn't any sort of design that SQE made it solo only.. it's that they can't seem to program their way out of a paper bag half the time.

and if its because they want to scale the system based on how much outside one's clique one deals with(That is to say, most rewards for solo, no rewards for 3s and 4s)

[frostmagemari]

Being a long-time player of XI, I can tell you that you should get comfortable with this.

I don't think i'll ever be "comfortable" with it, but i know that it's far too late to ever expect that the programming skills of those involved will increase, as they've already claimed to bring in "the best" for the creation of 2.0.

Too bad. The whole point of the duty roulette is to be rewarded for helping newbs/other people who are short a man to make a DF instance happen. If you want to party with friends queue for a specific dungeon.

I always hear everyone say this.. but, there has never been any SQE release saying this is why it's limited to one person. Really, this just sounds like "Battered Person Syndrome" with respect to the community. Everyone is trying their hardest to come up with a reason why they're not allowed to play with friends, but they would never think that SQE is to blame; Instead, it must be that SQE is doing their best to help the lower level players advance in story dungeons (Though that doesn't at all help explain why the high level Duty Roulette is limited to one person) and we simply refuse to understand.

"Yoshida works in mysterious ways" works too though, considering how much some of the community revere the man.

and if its because they want to scale the system based on how much outside one's clique one deals with(That is to say, most rewards for solo, no rewards for 3s and 4s)

Then SQE would be the only MMO company that actively tries to dissuade you from grouping with friends; Then again, i wouldn't be entirely surprised, as there are already several activities that force you to leave the group your in to participate in the content... though, i would attribute all of these inconveniences to not being able to "program their way out of a paper bag".

[jomoru]

Then SQE would be the only MMO company that actively tries to dissuade you from grouping with friends; Then again, i wouldn't be entirely surprised, as there are already several activities that force you to leave the group your in to participate in the content... though, i would attribute all of these inconveniences to not being able to "program their way out of a paper bag".

Or you mean the only one that actively works towards trying to both expand out of cliques and improve the general community. Solo Dungeon finder and the comendation system work towards both ends. IT doesn't matter to Squeenix what dungeons get run, the only reason for a random setup is to help people who don't have 4 premades out. 90 myth tomes in an hour is no where near as efficient as a Garuda or WP farm.

[Taekrys]

Lacerta saves the day, once again.

[Terius]

I'm loving it. Wanted a WAR alt since release, didn't want to grind FATES, waited for this, boom. 'In need' bonuses, 1 level per day from low lvl Roulette + Guildhest.

[Millimidget]

Why discourage players from joining their friends? seriously.. who's bright idea was this?

I'm so tired of ostensibly solo queues being trolled by self-entitled duos who feel the other N people involved are there for the benefit of the duos.

I really appreciate solo-only queues. The result is that the player commendation system is working exactly as intended, instead of being subjugated by some random j/o tweens who happen to be in homeroom together.