Up Commencement Time to 60 Seconds

[BigPapaSmurf]

Change your coding to preserve crafts or auto-switch Jobs upon selecting commence.

45 seconds usually isn't enough to exit combat & switch back to the Job you queued as (Sapsa).

It's so unreasonable to ask us to idle for over an hour in queue on the same Job, twiddling our thumbs as we wait.

Maybe if your time-estimations were even close or you listed a rough place in queue.

Leaving it as-is with the new withdrawal penalty system in place is silly.

HOW IS THE TIMER NOT SET AROUND WRAPPING UP WHAT YOU'RE DOING WHEN QUEUES ARE SOMETIMES UPWARDS OF TWO HOURS!!! YOU WANT US TO SIT AT THE EDGE OF OUR SEATS FOR TWO WHOLE HOURS DOING NOTHING???

[Ashkendor]

HOW IS THE TIMER NOT SET AROUND WRAPPING UP WHAT YOU'RE DOING WHEN QUEUES ARE SOMETIMES UPWARDS OF TWO HOURS!!! YOU WANT US TO SIT AT THE EDGE OF OUR SEATS FOR TWO WHOLE HOURS DOING NOTHING???

Um... someone needs to switch to decaf... ._________.

Anyway, to address the rest of your post... Seriously, it's not hard. There's plenty of things to do that don't get you inextricably involved in something whether it be having your character deep in a zone that you know is full of aggressive monsters, or potentially losing the materials from a high end craft. Be smart about what you choose to do during the time you're queued, because the rest of us are waiting on you. Some of the players have probably already waited just as long as you. How is it fair to expect them to continue to wait?

I've never had a problem wrapping up what I'm doing to get into the queue. The few I've missed have been due to being afk or being tabbed out of the game and just plain not paying attention.

[Ophie-Mio]

I just love the idea of needing to wait an additional length of time just for a person to not hit commence and start the crap all over again.

I for one have never had any of these problems with being able to commence my duty. I've had to spam and exit long cutscenes, get out of Fates with sprint, and had to take my controller with me because I could hear the DING! through it and commence and be in the dungeon by the time I was back at my keyboard...
...or was in yet another queue because someone didn't push it.

I've also had to blow through and hope for the best with my crafts. Stroke of bad luck that it happened while I was waiting in a queue I expected for 20+ minutes and it popped in under 10. However, if I'm queueing for any job other than dps, I'm asking for troubles if I start something and need to switch back quickly.

HOW IS THE TIMER NOT SET AROUND WRAPPING UP WHAT YOU'RE DOING WHEN QUEUES ARE SOMETIMES UPWARDS OF TWO HOURS!!!

Because this game shouldn't cater to your specific needs over the needs of sometimes 23 others. It shouldn't even cater when you have to think of the other seven. The length of the queues is irrelevant when based on the fact that you are just one piece of the raid and those seven others are relying on you to be there for them. Not "Oh! I'm about to finish, just 10 more seconds! Oh wait, 20 more! OH WAIT! Gimme a minute!"

I've already been waiting in those same queues as you. Respect that I've been waiting and it's not about you.