/instance to change instance

[Risvertasashi]

Churning Mists doesn't HAVE a zone border entrance that allows you to choose your instance. I spent fifteen minutes and thousands of gil teleporting back and forth in the hopes of an instance swap the other day, just to play with a friend.

Actually it does. All zones do. They're just a bit obscure sometimes.

That said, SE really could have handled this better. All it needs is a "join party leader's instance" or something.

[Wavaryen]

agree wife and I are getting annoyed with this

[Yoruichi4478]

Well, if they plan on keeping this in place, they could take a page out of TERA's handbook and have instances aka channels have a place on the HUD and when u click on it has a drop down menu with all the channels/instances you can choose from. It's much more efficient than trying to ask ppl to wait while u find a zone line to change instances, which is dumb as hell.

[Divine_Intervention]

Yeah, instances are becoming a pain in the ass. Give us an easier option than going manually to an area to select instance. Or at least if you teleport as a party, you all end up in the same instance.

Even better.. remove it completely.

[Gamer3427]

Even better.. remove it completely.

They exist for a reason. They are a giant pain in most of the areas they're in, but again, they were implemented to keep servers from having too many people in one area at any given time. Could you imagine if S rank level crowds were wandering around in each area killing stuff constantly? That would complete crash people who didn't have top of the line systems and internet connections. We don't need them removed until probably at least a couple of months from now when the servers are a little less active, (I would just say a month, but with Alexander being released in a few weeks still). What we do need is a more effective way of changing instances that works in all areas, and not just the ones that are easily traveled to, in order to allow us to still be playing with our friends in the meantime. I know that the Churning Mists in particular is a pain, because the only way to reenter the area is to leave and talk to an NPC to go back in, only to be placed in a random instance......

[Leep]

Instance? Jeez is Balmung that packed? This is the first time I've even heard of instanced zones.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Instance? Jeez is Balmung that packed? This is the first time I've even heard of instanced zones.

No, this is for the larger populated servers, Balmung included, to help ease congestion when early access and 3.0 launched. Remember when the Gold Saucer came out months ago and how no one could get inside because the map was maxed out in player capacity? Square wanted to avoid that for 3.0's launch and it worked quite well overall. Give it another few weeks and they'll remove the instanced zones once the congestion dies down.

[Felis]

It should be /channel instead of /instance to avoid confusions

[magdahmhara]

I just hope they don't keep them once the initial congestion has worn off.

[Waeksyn]

So, how do instances work for hunt marks? Present in one, not popped yet in another? Pops in both but killed in only one?