Why does PotD FORCE you to queue in-progress?

[Alberel]

Seriously, this has really annoyed me. I queued for floors 41-50. I was given no choice on whether or not to queue for an in-progress party and I got forced into a group that was seconds away from downing the final boss on floor 50.

I'm now forced to reset to floor 1 with no idea what actually happened on floor 50. I saw no cutscenes, got no xp and no aetherpool progress.

You should not be forced into an in-progress party for content where joining halfway is incredibly counter-productive and wastes all your progress.

EDIT: I'm aware now that you can toggle the 'queue in progress' option via the Duty Finder, same as for normal DF content. I suppose at this point I would argue that this needs to be made clearer in game as there is absolutely no way to know this unless you go looking in the patch notes.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Then don't click commence?

[Alberel]

Then don't click commence?

I did, twice. Any more and I would have gotten a lockout penalty.

[Xelanar]

They don't force you. You can turn it off simply by deactivating it in your duty finder ^_^. The option to toggle it on and off is shared between duty finder and deep dungeon.

[AsteriaStarfall]

Not trying to be a jerk by pointing this out, but a lot of times questions like the OP's can be answered....by simply reading the patch notes

The following quote is taken from the page below

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...c82c85a550f9a0

Players can join a party in progress by first checking the "Join Party in Progress" box in the Duty Finder menu, then speaking with the Wood Wailer expeditionary.

[ardrej]

just to add on the subject, this is going to be more common, now ppl that is about finish their aetherpools and for whatever reason dont finish it the current run would just leave the instance. In my opinion I cant blame them. Repeath all the floors for a single aether? NO way

[Alberel]

Not trying to be a jerk by pointing this out, but a lot of times questions like the OP's can be answered....by simply reading the patch notes

The following quote is taken from the page below

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...c82c85a550f9a0

Whilst it's good to hear this it's not much consolation given that there is absolutely no indication of this in-game. I read the patch notes in full during the downtime and still managed to miss this detail. Considering that we can't queue for the PotD via the DF why on earth is the option to toggle this hidden away in there? There is nothing intuitive about it at all.

[Lisotte]

Whilst it's good to hear this it's not much consolation given that there is absolutely no indication of this in-game. I read the patch notes in full during the downtime and still managed to miss this detail. Considering that we can't queue for the PotD via the DF why on earth is the option to toggle this hidden away in there? There is nothing intuitive about it at all.

Common sense? Even while it technically isn't the DF per se (well actually from a coding standpoint it probably still is), literally EVERY other duty in the game makes you start at the beginning, UNLESS you happen to have left the "join party in progress" box checked by accident.

[aesteval]

They don't force you. You can turn it off simply by deactivating it in your duty finder ^_^. The option to toggle it on and off is shared between duty finder and deep dungeon.

That's an inconvenient location to have to access the toggle for a duty which isn't accessed via duty finder. O_o

[Lisotte]

That's an inconvenient location to have to access the toggle for a duty which isn't accessed via duty finder. O_o

1st world problems.