Thread: 2.0 coming up on first birthday -- DPS queue issue still not addressed.

Originally Posted by Kazamoto

How do we get more players in per run, without changing current party dynamics...

Player controlled bosses!

While this would be a pretty freaking sweet form of PvP I don't think it'd be particularly useful for dungeons, mostly because it'd require the three DPS controlling the bosses to wait around until the party got to them, which could mean wait-times of up to an hour and a half if the party you're facing is struggling and you drew final boss.

Originally Posted by FJerome

While this would be a pretty freaking sweet form of PvP I don't think it'd be particularly useful for dungeons, mostly because it'd require the three DPS controlling the bosses to wait around until the party got to them, which could mean wait-times of up to an hour and a half if the party you're facing is struggling and you drew final boss.

well.....

Originally Posted by Kazamoto

Yeah, but what about the player for the final boss, he has to just sit and wait until the player gets there before he can do anything.
But, If he does, he gets the same exp and gil as a dungeon runner, for the same time invested, still better than just sitting in queue, plus a token for random loots to be announced by someone else!

Originally Posted by Kazamoto

well.....

. . . What the hell is going on in your cluster that your queue times are worse than waiting an hour waiting for a party to get to you?

As a Dragoon on Excalibur, I usually only have to wait 5 minutes or less. I guess maybe other data centers have it bad.

Originally Posted by Thorauku

Mind if I ask? Which dungeon exactly you're queue-ing?

Anything, really. High level roulette, Expert Roulette, or any of the level 50 dungeons outside of roulette.

This is just a supply and demand issue. You have abundant of supply of DPS with not enough demand for them. Think of yourself as a manufacturing plant that can supply 3 kinds of products: tank, healer and DPS. You know the demand for DPS is low, but for whatever reasons (they can be legit reasons, nothing is right or wrong here. You might like to play DPS, you might like a certain gear and how they look) you still want to enter the market and become a manufacturer for DPS. In this case, you will need to know that unless your product has a perk and can supply a niche market (extremely good player, in a good FC, well geared), then you should expect your product will be on the shelf longer than higher demanded commodities.

By asking the developers for help to change this, you are basically asking the government to intervene. In that sense, there are a lot more to consider as you are trying to shift the equilibrium.