A party member has withdrawn...

[Mortechai]

The penalties for repeatedly withdrawing need to be so severe that it will be faster for the people attempting to do this to just complete the dungeon from start to finish in the first place. Same needs to be done with people getting into a partial, seeing that its not what they wanted/far enough and leaving. It needs to give them a cooldown so long that they would have been better off just staying and finishing it.

[Sax]

It's not a total fix, but it will go some way to alleviate the 20+minutes of ppl withdrawing fishing for an in progress that is at a particular boss. Who the hell cares if someone joins, you enter, and then they leave? The hardest part about CT is getting past the withdraw button.

[Defmetal]

I think this is kind of the wrong way to fix the problem.
I may not MIND joining an in progress run because I want a faster queue, but perhaps I don't want one that has already killed the 3rd boss because it has the loot I want.

The problem isn't that people know the progress of the dungeon (because maybe you have a valid reason for wanting to withdraw a dungeon that has progressed too far or not far enough), it's that people can withdraw and requeue instantly. Rather than implement this change, they should just implement a progressively increasing delay timer before being allowed to requeue for the SAME dungeon. Start with no delay (maybe I allowed in progress but it showed me it was 3/4 and I wanted Behemoth) but add 30 seconds each time they decline. So first offense, no time, then 30 seconds, 60, 90, etc. Fixes the problem for the most part without hurting anyone.

[Grailer]

did it occur to them that some people are just queing to troll people and they come to forums to lol at the people QQing ? Some people are just so bored they amuse themselves by annoying others .

[Doo]

did it occur to them that some people are just queing to troll people and they come to forums to lol at the people QQing ? Some people are just so bored they amuse themselves by annoying others .

More reason why there should be a withdraw penalty.

The fix seems kind half A... but I hope it works, should of just do blind queue. None of these guys that queue in progress actually want to help players, they just wanted to abuse the system to farm faster.

[NefGP]

By the same token, as long as we're talking about the DF cue...

can we get the window extended please? I don't know how many times I've minimized my window to look something up real quick or take a piss and I come back to find I missed my damn cue after 30+ min of waiting.

45 seconds is lame...

[gadenp]

By the same token, as long as we're talking about the DF cue...
...
45 seconds is lame...

Waiting for DPS to start, while they AFK is also annoying . But I feel the pain also. Once you get kicked it is like you go behind super long the queue. Maybe if after 45 secs, you get swapped with the next in line, would be a better system. After 3 swapes, you get kicked to back of queue.

[Farrell]

How about putting different loot in CT besides Dragoon and Monk stuff? How about drops for I dunno, all the classes?

[Kinseykinz]

I'm hoping this is only a temp. 'fix' or test to see if it will help ease up some CT queues and make it easier to enter faster. But really Square, it's not that hard...allow people to Queue normally and allow them to be willing to help a stranded group 'Join Party in Progress' like now, but make it a blind Queue so that they don't know what they get until they enter. Also make it so that if they leave once they join the party (if it is full) they get a 30 minute Abandonment penalty. But because they will not get a penalty if they leave, make it so that they can leave without penality (or make it so the party can't 'Replenish Members') if:

1. They enter the dungeon and there's less than 10 minutes remaining
2. The final boss is killed...you can still occasionally get queued for a cleared dungeon :/ (Happened to me on CT)
3. If the party still isn't full 5 minutes after they entered.

[Sciwolf]

Either you are all overreacting to a small in-game inconvenience or I have been extremely lucky. I usually get a few withdrawals and then I'm in. Usually its only about 5 minutes or so. No big deal at all.

This is a non-issue being made into the crime of the century. Time to move on.