Reserving Server Amphador keep

[Hierarchiel]

Hi.
I wanted to say firstly i love FF14, from all the MMO RPGS i played is this one, one of my favorite.
So far, I have not seen any major problems so far.
That was till me and my friend decided to progress the lvl 50 dungeons.
For those who do not know about the above problem.
Apparently Amdapor Keep is based on what was written a favorite bot farming ground.
Since there fixed amount of servers that can be allocated for instances, this instance is almost impossible to enter with players reporting waiting times of 4+ hours for days even with complete parties. I entered there as a tank and my friend as healer, which for all other instances gives us instant or maybe 5 minute waiting time. For amphador keep we literally after 2 minutes had full party but were not able to enter because of "Reserving Server" status. After a while the DDs have been relocated to other instances, we waited for a while, again got DDs and again waited for "Reserving Server". This kept on repeating for about 40 minutes. In between i searched for this issue and its common. Since we are both working people with limited time, we decided to got to another instance and guess what, 5 seconds for copperbell mine hard.
I reported this issue also vial square-enix support - 11383223.
This issue exists from 2014
https://www.google.com/search?q=amda...hrome&ie=UTF-8
How come it still has not been resolved???
Why are paying players second to bots?
Is the money from bot memberships really so important, that real players are second place.
Please share this issue, so they finally invest time into resolving it after 5+ years.

[Vexy1]

I am having same issue with my friend (heal+tank). Trying to find group for Amdapor Keep to complete Relic weapon quest - "Reserving server" for hrs. Looks like devs have more converning issues at hands.

[KageTokage]

It's kind of troubling how selective the devs seem to be about what is worth considering a major issue.

The fix for this is laughably simple, too. Just remove the raw gil drops from all ARR dungeons and the bots will stop queueing for instances.

They need a source of raw gil that is both endless and efficient, and as far as I can think of nothing in the overworld comes remotely close to the 200ish gil per kill you get from the enemies in dungeons (This value is normally divided among each player in the party, but since the bots are working as a collective...). Amdapor Keep in particular is favored because of how high the number of enemies prior to the first boss is and it's only efficient for the bots because they're able to warp around to aggro everything instantly then do the usual BLM Flare spam to burn it all down in a matter of seconds.

[Lord_Rhoric]

I did this dungeon earlier today with no issues as a DPS for my relic quest. Only waited like 15 mins.

[KageTokage]

I did this dungeon earlier today with no issues as a DPS for my relic quest. Only waited like 15 mins.

Did you solo queue or group queue?

Solo queues have no issues getting through but groups get held up forever.

[Hierarchiel]

So still no change. Im thinking if there is not a time window, when the bots do other things or are not logged in. @Lord_Rhoric can you please tell me at about which time (and time zone), was the joining successful.
Cause based on comments from others, even single joinings are punished by heavy waits. Some guy was waiting each day for like 4 hours as solo dd

[Hierarchiel]

So we tried solo and group. Tank, heal. It just slowed down the party forming, no other change, still keeps on failing on reserving server.

[Dustytome]

So still no change. Im thinking if there is not a time window, when the bots do other things or are not logged in. @Lord_Rhoric can you please tell me at about which time (and time zone), was the joining successful.
Cause based on comments from others, even single joinings are punished by heavy waits. Some guy was waiting each day for like 4 hours as solo dd

It looks like Lord_Rhoric on the Aether datacenter (NA) and it appears the EU datacenters are the ones having the biggest issue with lockouts at the moment, which is likely why they can get in and you can't.