Quote Originally Posted by sarehptar View Post
What if I queued under the new rule for an extreme primal with three FC friends? Two go as tanks/DPS, me and the other person go as healers/DPS. By doing this, we're no longer locked out of being matched up with any pre-mades that already have at least one tank or healer. Before, if we queued as tanks and healers only, we would ONLY be matched up with DPS or pre-mades containing DPS. Many people try to speed up their queues by partying with at least one tank/healer friend, which can actually slow the queue down considerably if the DF has to match a whole bunch of partial parties that don't have complimentary make-ups. This helps reduce queue length in a way that /random deciding on a role wouldn't at all.
This would be a wonderful idea, but it is a programming nightmare. Having different jobs in different queues is one thing, but having different jobs in the same queue, especially in parties, increases matching complexity exponentially. If you queue as two tanks and two healers, the game just needs to find you some DPS. If you queue as two tank/DPS and two healer/DPS, then there are exponentially more combinations. And what about the next people in the queue? If you're first, and there are two tanks and three DPS queued together behind you, the system would need to take that into account to make optimal decisions. And if they're queued as multiple jobs... it gets out of hand very fast. This is the kind of dev request that makes your programmers start polishing their resumes, lol.