Time to address long queue times for low level players

[Rekujin]

Maths question.

If A data center has a 3:1:1 dps healer tank ratio and B data center also has 3:1:1, what is the ratio if you merge those servers? What effect would this have on DPS times?

Fair enough, but more people in the pool = reduced queue times regardless of the role ratio, because more people = more players leveling alts. It's the same reason level 50 pops faster than low level dungeons, at 50 the ratio is still most likely 3:1:1 but because there's more people it doesn't take as long...

[SummonerSenah]

The queues suck but most DPS have resigned themselves to the fact that their queue will be longer. If you multitask you can still use the time waiting in queues productively. Farm Fates while you wait and get additional XP, money, and seals. You can also do levequests, and if your queue happens to pop while you're doing it, you can abandon a levequest and do it later. Or take up crafting or gathering. Mine shards while you're in queue and sell them on the MB for a bit of money. If you're not doing roulette and you're just running dungeons for XP, see if you have a tank or healer in your Free Company or one of your linkshells to help.

[Kiroh]

I'm guessing the OP wasn't around for launch so I'll just say this : There is a good reason the duty finder was separated in the first place.

[SarcasmMisser]

Fair enough, but more people in the pool = reduced queue times regardless of the role ratio, because more people = more players leveling alts. It's the same reason level 50 pops faster than low level dungeons, at 50 the ratio is still most likely 3:1:1 but because there's more people it doesn't take as long...

That makes zero sense, more people in an even distribution is more DPS as well to extend the length of the line proportionate to the increased rate of jobs in demand. Level 50 is different because the ratio is different, people have multiple jobs at 50 and just switch if the wait gets too long.

[aisustrong]

I'm guessing the OP wasn't around for launch so I'll just say this : There is a good reason the duty finder was separated in the first place.

that reason being?

[Kiroh]

that reason being?

A ridiculously huge amount of stress on the servers that, when they weren't crashing (constantly), caused players to have to wait over an hour or longer AFTER the Duty Finder formed a full group just to get an open instance slot.

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

TLDR: Merge all data centres together for the Duty Finder, queue times are becoming a huge problem for DPS players, especially those of us playing during off-peak American hours (Oceanic players)

Er the Duty Finder is Cross Server, never asked anyone what world their on while in duty?

I play on Phoenix but select all world/language groups and often get parternered with US players (on US worlds), other EU worlds and yes even sometimes JP players.

I think the problem is no-one likes playing tank apart from me and i guess a few thousand other players lol.

[SecretCrowds]

Er the Duty Finder is Cross Server, never asked anyone what world their on while in duty?

I play on Phoenix but select all world/language groups and often get parternered with US players (on US worlds), other EU worlds and yes even sometimes JP players.

I think the problem is no-one likes playing tank apart from me and i guess a few thousand other players lol.

OP is asking for cross data centre, not cross server within a data centre.

If you end up with players of other language, they were playing on the same data centre. If they were of a different data centre, the ping would be horrendous.

An AUS player connecting to a JP data centre gets 150 ping. From the JP data centre to the NA data centre is about 300 ping. That would give them a total of 450 ping.

[juniglee]

Fair enough, but more people in the pool = reduced queue times regardless of the role ratio, because more people = more players leveling alts. It's the same reason level 50 pops faster than low level dungeons, at 50 the ratio is still most likely 3:1:1 but because there's more people it doesn't take as long...

Except it won't really change anything. The aspiring player wanting to get all their battle classes to 50 has to level 2 tanks, 1 healer, and 5 DPS classes (although 1 of them can be leveled as a healer past level 30).

It's worse for people like me who have already leveled both tanks and healers, and only have my DPS classes left.

[Krr]

The real question is: Why the hell is low-level roulette a 60-minute wait when WoD and expert take 5-10 minutes tops as a DPS?

There's an obvious incentive distribution problem going on when players just don't want to do LL roulette.