Instances are cool and all, but....

[NinjaTaru72]

If I'm in a party, and either someone warps somewhere and I accept the free telly, or I warp to the same zone as someone in my party, how about sticking us in the same instance???

Like... Seriously. My friend and I were in one zone, he tellyd to the underwater city, I accepted the telly to follow him... And I ended up in a different instance..

Come on SE. Please, fix this.

[White_Wolf_X]

SE:

[TitaniaZero]

The problem has existed since HW. I assume they just don't want to fix it. >>

[Krotoan]

I think the main reason for this is they never expected instances to go beyond the initial swell. Or still don't. I have no idea what their idea of a "temporary" fix is , a month, 2 months.. 45 days..
so unless someone has some insight into what they consider temporary , we've got a cobbled together fix for an issue they think will go away and have no reason to spend resources on making QoL improvements on. Like housing and server population, once the expansion hype dies down they'll start to consider actual fixes for sustained issues, but till then I'm feeling a very ".. nahhh.. not yet" attitude toward this kind of problem.

[Kaedan]

Are people aware they can join the same instance as their friend if they exit the zone and come back manually?

Not saying it's not slightly irritating, but it's really not that big a deal either.

[Aylis]

Are people aware they can join the same instance as their friend if they exit the zone and come back manually?

Not saying it's not slightly irritating, but it's really not that big a deal either.

Most do know, I just don't understand why they can't add in something like a pop up window on arrival that says something like "click yes to join the instance of your party" or even simpler, allowing players to select a choice of running instances to join via a drop down menu.

[Krotoan]

Are people aware they can join the same instance as their friend if they exit the zone and come back manually?

Not saying it's not slightly irritating, but it's really not that big a deal either.

example of it being a big deal:

S Hunt mark is alive in instance 1. LS announcement goes out "COME TO FRINGE INSTANCE 1 TO KILL THING ASAP, SOMEONE IS PULLING" . You teleport with 3 other people , 1 person ends up in 1, you and the other 2 end up in 3 or 2. Now you have to run to the zone , zone out, zone back in and pick the instance and THEN go to where the hunt mark is. You have now probably missed the hunt mark.

no it isn't life altering.. but annoying as heck.

[NinjaTaru72]

Are people aware they can join the same instance as their friend if they exit the zone and come back manually?

Not saying it's not slightly irritating, but it's really not that big a deal either.

OH I know, but for me, he tellyd to the underwater city. Its basically the middle of map. Lol.

[Niraves]

I'm not really sure why they needed instances beyond The Lochs anyway since Ixion spawns were 90% of the issue. Not that I'm complaining.. I've made a cool 17 mil selling all the grade VI materia I've gotten from Hunts this week.

[Kaedan]

example of it being a big deal:

S Hunt mark is alive in instance 1. LS announcement goes out "COME TO FRINGE INSTANCE 1 TO KILL THING ASAP, SOMEONE IS PULLING" . You teleport with 3 other people , 1 person ends up in 1, you and the other 2 end up in 3 or 2. Now you have to run to the zone , zone out, zone back in and pick the instance and THEN go to where the hunt mark is. You have now probably missed the hunt mark.

no it isn't life altering.. but annoying as heck.

Or you teleport to an adjacent zone and zone in to make sure you get in instance 1. Likely wouldn't take significantly longer than running from a teleport.