Would it be feasible to add a Pause Queue feature?

[Rongway]

I mostly agree with DW and Almandrigal in re: don't queue if you're busy, but it would be fine to add this if it were implemented reasonably.

I see this as causing a big pile up in the queue as well. Even more so than it is now with the huge player base that FFXIV has.

It doesn't need to. Make it so that anyone who's paused the queue can only advance as far as queue position #2. If a person in party has the queue paused, nobody in the party can advance ahead of position #2.

For everyone else skipping over the paused people, it would be little different from when you're in a roulette, and a duty would-pop except you don't have access to the specific duty, so it offers it to the first eligible person in queue instead of you. There is no pileup there either.

Problems I'm seeing is like many things, it can be abused causing huge problems with the DF queues. Pausing to run to the restroom sounds ideal, but then again there are those who just pause it and take a nap, cook dinner, cut the grass, hoping that when they come back they can take pause off and have less of a wait time.

This is easily handled by capping your pause time to 5 or 10 minutes before it either A) ejects you from queue or B) force unpauses your queue.