Make Instances More Convenient Please

[Dustytome]

Couldn't an instance variable be added for a party that would keep the group going to the same instance number unless the party leader changed it manually by going between zones for the pop-up? Something was coded to sort people into instances, surely it could check for such a variable.

[Jas710]

Get Yoshi and his team to form a party and teleport around so they experience first-hand how unacceptable and amateurish this "limitation" is. And please, enough with the apologizing. Get in there and fix it. Jfc.

[LathusWHM]

I fully agree that they should only make 2 dungeons for leveling and only grind out side quests when you run out of MSQ. I think dungeons are a major inconvenience and do not provide any sense of story, or something different to do or look forward to. It's absurd that SE would add enough content to keep everyone excited to see new stuff.

How dare they expect us to have too much content to work with!!!

[Naunet]

I think you very much misunderstood the thread, Lathus...

[LathusWHM]

I'm just tired of coming to the forums looking for constructive conversation and all it is are newish players or casual players complaining about this, complaining about that and those and everything.

It gets so exhausting to see people just NOT want to learn what they have in front of them and just expect devs to just "change" everything so it's convenient for them. Play the game or go play wow.

[Zarabeth]

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This thread is about the instances that are forced on everyone right now in the new areas due to the Ixion fight. When Ixion pops (and a while before due to campers) the zone fills up very quickly and no one can get into the area. They put in instances to stop this, but they are really annoying as most of the time if you teleport in a party you end up in different instances. Which means you need to leave the area and come back in to get the right one.

[Texa]

I'm just tired of coming to the forums

You are literally doing all of the things you're complaining about right now.

[Altena]

Honestly.. They had 2 years to get it right between HW and SB...
I was extremely surprised that we still had the same horribly clunky system that was around in HW.
They didn't even touch it after all of the negative feedback around instances.

Don't get me wrong, I am totally fine with open world instances... However the implementation in this game is really horrible.

[Texa]

Once again with the "Due to the specifics of the programming" ... really if FFXIV "programming" is so shit, why the hell don't you rebuild it.

They were working with some impressive spaghetti code from the get go and it's just gotten worse and worse over the years. They don't have the time or budget to redo it all, but some specific things like this and glamour are probably worth their time to fix even if it's a huge pain.

[Reinha]

Zones become overcrowded and crash because they make lucrative open world battles like S ranks and Ixion so rare. If you had coded your game to be able to handle it, fine, but you didn't. Stop making content in such a way your own game can't handle. Either make the things spawn more often so the need to camp them or rush to kill them diminishes, or make it so people don't need to kill the bosses so many times. If the Ixion mount cost only 2 horns the "congestion" in Lochs would immediately be resolved like it has with Foxy Lady.