Results 1 to 6 of 6
  1. #1
    Player
    RyujinUzikin's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2013
    Posts
    181
    Character
    Ryujin Uzikin
    World
    Lamia
    Main Class
    Archer Lv 50

    Biased Roulettes and Music

    I don't know if I'm the only unlucky guy who has this issue, but every day duty roulette chooses the exact same places almost without fail.

    Some roulette have more instances than others, but even if they had 3, the game should remember which one you did the day before, and just choose among others. This way you're never going to end up in the exact same instance every day.

    This is not a roulette, it's a selective system that somehow chooses some instances more than others, I don't know, I think this needs to be fixed.

    Another thing (Forgive me if this already exists) is dungeon music. How come they have sometimes these incredible soundtracks at the start and then we have to listen to the monotonous battle music through the entire thing? Can't we just switch battle music off and enjoy the soundtrack instead? {Can I have it?}

  2. #2
    Player
    jbloom's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2014
    Posts
    24
    Character
    Bibinasu Tatanasu
    World
    Ultros
    Main Class
    Pugilist Lv 50
    I think even more DF should be fixed again to open to more servers in one group.
    (0)

  3. #3
    Player
    samnas's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2014
    Posts
    39
    Character
    Samnas Werlent
    World
    Malboro
    Main Class
    Archer Lv 50
    Because people for various reasons choose to run some content more than others. Pretty simple. It is not designed to give you a random equal chance at all content. It is designed to help others get groups for specific content they choose.
    (1)

  4. #4
    Player
    Mishini_Dracoto's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Limsa-Lominsa
    Posts
    513
    Character
    Misenklauph Drakkfhur
    World
    Ultros
    Main Class
    Marauder Lv 60
    Quote Originally Posted by samnas View Post
    Because people for various reasons choose to run some content more than others. Pretty simple. It is not designed to give you a random equal chance at all content. It is designed to help others get groups for specific content they choose.
    until you join a group that is either pre-formed, or you join a group and ask, and everybody is doing a DR. In this scenario I almost always end up running Tam Tara Deepcroft.
    (0)

    http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/2237443/]
    Quote Originally Posted by Noni View Post
    I wish more tanks were like you also.
    http://xivreborn.com/gen/Misenklauph_Drakkfhur_Ultros_Classes.jpg

  5. #5
    Player
    Bixby's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Posts
    1,534
    Character
    Ampersand Kai
    World
    Gilgamesh
    Main Class
    Pugilist Lv 50
    Roulette is almost never randomly selecting a duty, since there's almost always someone queuing for something specific that they need for whatever reason (quest, relic, etc.). You're filling in spots for people queuing for what they need, which is what Roulette is for: making sure players can get into & through whatever duty even when it'd otherwise be dead.

    In the cases where everyone in your party is also there through roulette (rare if you're not queuing as a full party), keep in mind that each duty only has so many instances available. (Remember back when you could queue for AK/WP and wait for 30-60 minutes after the party was fully formed just for an instance to open up?) If you're all in roulette, it's not going to stick you in something with no open instances, so even when it's random, that random selection is culled down to some degree.
    (0)
    10 posts per page is only the default setting; it is bad, and you should feel bad if you haven't changed it.
    Forum quirks and features explained: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/161238

  6. #6
    Player
    Brine_Gildchaff's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2014
    Location
    Gridania
    Posts
    380
    Character
    Brine Gildchaff
    World
    Malboro
    Main Class
    Conjurer Lv 50
    Didn't they say they were going to implement a toggle so you could deactivate the battle music and just play the dungeon theme throughout? That said, while it's not a perfect solution you do always have the option to mute XIV's BGM and supply your own. Sometimes I even load up a TeamFourStar video if I'm in a dungeon I don't particularly like, to take the edge off. (AK, I'm lookin' at you. >>)

    As regards your other question, basically roulette assigns you not to a random dungeon, but rather to a random DF party within that set of dungeons. So if most people are queueing for, say, Pharos Sirius, you'll be more likely to get that.
    (0)