Queues and Needs. (Suggestion)

[Zanmato]

Posted this once before, but I managed to post it in the wrong section of the forum.
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So, a little idea.

Would it be possible to implement a feature that auto-accepts (Commence) or pauses your place in the queue for a certain time, 2 minutes or so before resuming it?

Why do I bring this up? The whole "needs" thing. How many times haven't we wandered off for a quick leak, just to find that we've just barely missed our queue?

An example:

You queue up and the time in line is 14 minutes. 7 minutes passes by, and you feel that you need to go, badly. You know only 7 minutes has passed by so you're all good, right? Right?! So you run to the bathroom. Meanwhile in-game... "DING! - Tic, toc..."

You return and sit down. "WHAT?! IT POPPED?!" Yep, it popped. Now you have to wait for another 14 or so minutes, and you just got penalized just because you were away for 2 minutes, despite that the queue had only been going for 7 minutes, not 12 or 13 minutes.

Ok, you get the point. With a feature that could act as a "pause my/my party's place in the queue for a little while" and then resume once back, or allow for "auto-commence" for a while, perhaps through a command such as /bathroom - that way there would be no need in having to risk a penalty for a quick break, nor a need to feel stressed out while sitting in the bathroom.

To clarify further, this shouldn't hold back the queue for others that's not in your party, instead it should let other people overturn you. Let's say you're #23 in the queue and has went on a bathroom break. #24 would simply become #22, bypassing you. Once you're back, you start moving up the queue again.

This would be a fantastic quality of life change that I think a lot of people would appreciate.

[Metalwrath]

Or you could just take the quick break before queuing.Problem solved.

[Jybril]

You have 45 seconds to return to your pop up and return. If it is a quick potty break shouldn't take 2 mins.
I would suggest to you if you're not going off too far, when you're away/tab from game, go to options
and let system sounds on so you can hear. Saved my life so much.

Having them auto accept is a bad idea, since you'll be AFK in the dungeon too.
Pausing only backs up the line for other DPS ready but waiting.
Just take your breaks as soon as you Queue up or before like MetalWrath said.

[Nightroad]

No.
Do not queue if you are not ready to enter the dungeon /raid /etc.

[LeoLupinos]

Or you could just take the quick break before queuing.Problem solved.

OMG that's an impressive genius solution! How OP did not think of that?

[Zanmato]

OMG that's an impressive genius solution! How OP did not think of that?

The OP did think about that and unfortunately that's not how some bodies works. Some perhaps can do that, some can not. Some feel it urgently, some do not.

No.
Do not queue if you are not ready to enter the dungeon /raid /etc.

The example brought up a person that had been in a queue for a while already (7 mins, with expected wait time of 14), then felt the need to take a short break. It is simply something that happens now and then. You probably didn't read the post in its entirety so I'll just point that out now.

You have 45 seconds to return to your pop up and return. If it is a quick potty break shouldn't take 2 mins.
Having them auto accept is a bad idea, since you'll be AFK in the dungeon too.

2 minutes (at the most, as that would mean that it instantly popped once the controller was put down) AFK in a dungeon equals pretty much to viewing the introductory cutscene and waiting for the barrier to rise. I don't see an issue with this.
It doesn't suggest that the actual waiting time when IN a dungeon or raid is 2 minutes.

Pausing only backs up the line for other DPS ready but waiting.
Just take your breaks as soon as you Queue up or before like MetalWrath said.

Ok, I perhaps wasn't clear enough. I thought I was, but as you're clearly misunderstanding this, I'll clarify it more. With Pause, it should freeze your position in the queue and not move your position forward. Instead, people in the queue bypass you. See it as two cars on a road where one stops, and the other overtakes and goes ahead.

[HumanNinjaToo]

Queue time is estimated wait time, so it doesn't really make sense to use it as a hard time to be waiting. IMO, this is a non-issue that would require extra work for probably a handful of people. Just doesn't seem necessary to me.

However, if it were something to be implemented, than like you stated in OP: pause yourself, but there should be no penalty to any other player in queue.

[Mhaeric]

This thread should have been named Pees and Queues.

[Jybril]

Ok, I perhaps wasn't clear enough. I thought I was, but as you're clearly misunderstanding this, I'll clarify it more. With Pause, it should freeze your position in the queue and not move your position forward. Instead, people in the queue bypass you. See it as two cars on a road where one stops, and the other overtakes and goes ahead.

What about the people behind you that was there during your pause?
You came back and now just pushed the entire line back.

[Makeda]

This thread should have been named Pees and Queues.

That’s our problem and solution right there.

One should do their Pees and Queues and NOT their Queues and Pees.

Everyone gets it with OPs issue. This happens to all of is eventually. But they have to balance interests here and they’ve gone for a rather long timer already but have to leep the rest of the group in mind when setting a value...