Cross Server Leap of Faith

[shoobiedoobie]

Except Eureka doesn't require precise platforming. Or at least not AS precise, or as much of it.

That being said, does anyone know HOW the game decides who gets to be alone and who's in the ant farm? I've seen any number of times where my wife and I queue in within a second of each other, and one of us gets an instance to ourselves while the other doesn't.

So this is purely anecdotal, but here's what I've noticed from personal experience

Any time I get into a private instance of Leap of Faith, I did the following: The instant the npc spawns, I'm immediately clicking on him. I click through the npc's dialogue as quickly as possible, and click on the entry option. When the queue pops, I immediately click my entry.

Now, if I delay any of that by even 1 second, whether because I wasn't paying attention when it spawned or due to a misclick, I end up in the instance with 9 million people.

But as said, this is anecdotal, and based on a pretty small sample size of less than 50, so there's probably more to it, and it may be due to something else entirely.

[Elizar_Naki]

I'm guessing there's something else to it. You'd have to be the quickest person to click in on your entire data center for that to be correct, and while that doesn't mean you're wrong, it DOES make the theory difficult to confirm/deny.

Side note: I usually do that exact thing myself, but despite clicking through at a relatively fast (and consistent) rate, it's still iffy where I end up. Once earlier today, I thought I'd gotten the solo instance, only to see the shadows of other players landing behind me after making a few jumps and realize that I'd just given myself a fair head start on the parade. Again, that's not to say your theory is wrong (I've been thinking along similar lines myself), and it's possible that I just misclicked or delayed clicking for a bit without noticing, but it does make me second guess the idea.

[shoobiedoobie]

And I 100% recognize that my thoughts on it (I wouldn't even go so far as to call it a theory) may be wrong. Its just the only connection I've been able to observe between getting the solo instance or the group instance, unfortunately. Though I don't necessarily think you'd have to be the fastest clicker on the datacenter, as we don't really know that only one person is getting a solo Leap of Faith.

[Elizar_Naki]

Though I don't necessarily think you'd have to be the fastest clicker on the datacenter, as we don't really know that only one person is getting a solo Leap of Faith.

This is true of course, but it goes back to the original question of WHY some people get to do this GATE solo and some don't, or what the frequency of solo vs group instances of it actually is.

Also, new incident report: I managed to click in really fast again a little bit ago and ended up in a solo instance right up until the very end. New people only started showing up right as I was jumping to the exit, which means I was alone in this particular instance for nearly 3 minutes. This would suggest that even solo LoF instances don't stay solo indefinitely, regardless of the conditions for initially getting one.