Roulette Abuse?

[RaphaelDDL]

Happen pretty often to me

that or tank says brb and 15mins later, still afk.

[Darske]

Had this happen the other night in Thousand Maws. The healer (who looked to be in either CT or Allagan gear, I don't quite remember since I only saw him in the load-in cutscene) immediately disconnected as soon as we started. Clearly, only there for the quick tomes and didn't care about the group.

Joke's on him though, our summoner was awesome at keeping us alive, and we 3-manned the dungeon.

[moudoka]

My main class is tank. I don't get why these others tanks have to give the good ones a bad name. There has only been ONE dungeon I dropped out of...when I was on a DPS, because of idiot party members. However, as a tank, I stay in it. I know many of the DPS have to wait forever (I always do on my Arcanist or Dragoon), and it's not fair to them to have to wait. There are some dungeons I dislike with a passion, but I still run them, because, well, everyone needed it at the time. Try not to forget about us good tanks, we are out there.

[XiXiQ]

I'd prefer you just get your choice of the "roulette". It's still just one bonus per category per day (call them "bonus" dungeons instead, if you like). This gives incentive to participate in all levels of dungeons, and without the problem of people dropping from instances they dislike. I would split the "low" level into 2 though, about 1-31 low, 31-49 medium, something in that ballpark.

Now, without the "roulette" part, you have a very easy way to stop people leaving. If you leave a "bonus dungeon", no more bonuses for you that day. Disconnections need to log back in within a set time, or take the penalty. If you choose to do a bonus dungeon, you cannot initiate, or vote on a kick.

[XiXiQ]

(as I only have 1000 chars....)

Will people game this, and will some dungeons be more popular than others? Of course. Fact is, the tanks/healers are already making a choice by leaving before the instance even starts, some are kicking the low level players who are the people they are being "rewarded" for helping, already dungeons are being favoured over others. However it should mean far more instances (no matter how long you waited for it) end up completed the first time.

[TomTom1968]

During the last week I used DF a lot instead of going with my FC. Last time I used it more frequently was weeks ago and I was quite shocked to notice the fleeing trend of popular classes. It seems tanks and also healers leave for the smallest to no reason or directly aim for quick tomes by aborting any dungeon where they start at the beginning. This is anti social and egoistic. I don't want a Game to spy out their players but SE maybe should look deeper into monitoring aborting behaviour.

[aerolol]

I have exited Halatali HM a few days ago as tank after Duty Roulette has put me there ALL THE TIME, EVERY DAY, EVER SINCE PATCH 2.2

I explained that, apologized and left.

The blame should go towards Square Enix crappy RNG algorithms and whatnot, not towards the tanks who are getting the same freaking dungeon through roulette ALL THE TIME.


Now I got Brayflox HM twice and Lost City once.

I can do Halatali HM again now, as long as it doesn't start popping everyday again.

If it does, I will exit it to break the trend.




On a side note, I NEVER EVER exited Pharos Sirius. (I like this dungeon very much)
But I've seen countless DPS and healers exiting it as soon as it started.

[FurryFury]

Some people just do dungeon-fishing. Every atma book require you to finish 3 dungeons (kill last boss etc.) with your relic weapon.
So instead of queuing into low-level dungeon on lvl 50 char, they go into DR trying to kill two birds with one stone. Wrong dungeon? Quit, repeat.
Even with 30 min penalty it's ok, you still can kill mobs / wait for book FATEs while waiting.

[EvilHippie]

I main war, but sometimes do Roulettes as alts for fun. Yesterday in brayflox hm i witnessed a different war sit down and pout, and Sh!t talk because the blm and whm were undergeared according to him. THe funny part was that his gear was very sub par as far as Bis for even 2.1 standards. He waited until we vote dismissed him. This just gives tanks a bad name.

So, as always, Don't be a douche.

[NaliaBrown]

I've been doing low level roulette to level different classes - first WHM, now MNK. It seems like as soon as I hit level 38, the only dungeon I'm able to get on roulette is Cutter's Cry. I hate that place. So the last time I did a roulette, I said to my friends that if Cutter's Cry came up, I would leave immediately. It was, so I apologized to the group and left. I did end up taking the 30 minute penalty, though. Playing on a PS3 means that my load times are super slow, even with skipping cutscenes, so if there is a way to leave at the start and not get the penalty, I missed my window.