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[Hanabira]

Can we please stop with the altruistic notion that 'in progress' is only for rebuilding parties where people left. The only reason SE put it in there is to prevent the outcry that would happen without it.

if you couldn't add people after the run started, then a lot of runs would just fail with everyone complaining that they couldn't complete the run because of 'x' disconnected/got kicked/fell asleep...

So what youre saying is, they added "in progress" for rebuilding parties where people left.

The game is designed to run a dungeon from start to finish, in progress was added because this isn't always the reality and people WILL leave for whatever reason. This feature was used to replace those people, but abused by people trying to skip through dungeons. If this was intended, why doesn't this happen in JP servers? For whatever reason, people in US regions spend so much time and effort trying to figure out ways to NOT play the game.

Suicide speed runs,
withdrawl spam,
T2 enrage,
any other system circumventing crap is all stuff our region started