Need harsher penalties.

[Daniolaut]

People are far too flippant, and the game is far too easy.

Penalties need to be significantly more strict.

**leave unchanged the 3 times failure to accept queue penalty. That one works perfectly fine, and can easily be user error. The below listed are nigh unacceptable behavior.**


-Leaving a party finder after joining.

30 minute duty finder/party finder penalty (this would be a new penalty to discourage party finder trolls.)

-Leaving a duty after initiating accept

1 hour duty finder penalty (this is an existing penalty but would be doubled in penalty time.)

-Leaving 3 duties within a 1 week period

48 hour Duty finder/party finder ban (this would be a new penalty to discourage flippant people.)



No one is going to agree, but really there is no reason these numbers shouldnt be doubled or even tripled. "The likelihood of someone accidentally falling into these guidelines is slim to none."

If people are expected to read warnings such as buying the right equipment and dealing with 1 time item restores or, sending the wrong mog station items to the wrong character, or accidentally making someone master of a Free Company and them stealing everything, then you should also be equally responsible for reading the correct party finder, and queue'ing and entering the correct duties.

[Anienai]

Players need to be .....punished.

[Rymm]

Players need to be .....punished.

Ooo, should I get my corset?

[SamRF]

I do dislike it when players leave and party ends up being disbanded cause overcoming difficulties with PUGs has been some of my favorite experiences, I'm hoping for it every time I queue for something. However these punishments may be too harsh for what it's worth, especially the 48 hours one.

What should rather be done imo is making the toggle that allows you to join a party in progress more visible. Right now you have to click that the tiny gear button top left and manually toggle the option to join parties in progress (it's turned off by default). I'm sure many players (newer ones especially) have never seen this settings page in Duty Finder and aren't aware that they can't join duties in progress. The toggle should imo be on the Duty finder main interface, somewhere more obvious so everyone will see the fact that they have it toggled or not whenever they queue up for a duty.

Personally had it off for a while until I discovered it was off by accident.

[Wiccan026]

I'm not sure if this is a troll thread or not.

Having a penalty for leaving a party finder seriously? I have seen one too many party finders that dissolve because the person lead goes afk without saying they are going afk (optimistically because there just waiting for the group to fill) and folks have found people to join and therefore leave because nothing seems to go anywhere with the party. Why should people be penalized for that nonsense? Also, there not going to sit there and waste time creating a set of rules for such things, it's all or nothing penalties so again penalizing party finders is nonsense.

Your other increased queue times would also make the roulettes take longer due to less people with the ability to queue so why would SE do that.

[Jandroid]

There was a time when a friend (SCH) and I (NIN) used party finder and got stuck with a tank that refused to turn on tank stance and threatened to not heal me if I move too much (the aggro was constantly on me and this makes no sense at all since he's not the healer to begin with and I have a habit of moving to reposition my attacks) and a DPS who kept trash talking the healer and complaining about not getting enough heals when his health never came close to dropping below 50%. That group was complete cancer.

This was the first and only time I ever left a party finder group and nobody can blame me for wanting to leave that. Doubling is too strict if you don't know the full circumstances behind why someone left (especially if it's a real life emergency). A 30 minute punishment is about right.

[FonzworthBentley]

This is the best idea since wearing socks with sandals.

[Vivi_Bushido]

I kind of miss the days when we had less penalties~ :T

[Canadane]

I kind of miss the days when we had less penalties~ :T

Ah yes the days when nobody could get into Syrcus Tower because tanks would just join and leave over and over again for hours on end.
Penalties are needed, however they don't need to be harsher at all, imo

[yukiiyuki]

Imagine getting harsher penalties for leaving group that refuse to play normally.