Suggestion : Multiclass queuing

[Oley]

As someone who can play many roles and has no preference. I would like to be able to queue up with many classes at once. Like one from tank role, one from healer role, and one from DPS role. To speed up overall queuing for everyone. To select classes you want to queue up as.... make a tick box for classes that are capable of going in that dungeon should be fine. What do you think?

[Rongway]

Even the most efficient solutions will require an increase in the amount of data stored on the character servers, or the amount of data transferred between the client and DF servers, or the amount of data stored on the DF servers as part of the queue process, or somewhere, and the devs have historically been firmly resistant to increasing the amount of data any part of the servers handles or stores, no matter how small the increase. Whether it's because of actual technical limitations or because they just don't know how to implement such changes in an efficient and effective way, only they could say.

Especially since you can just tryqueue as each, see which one has the lowest AWT (or which pops immediately) and go with that one.

Ultimately, this is asking for a significant expenditure of dev time to do basically the same thing as just queuing as a tank or healer in the first place.

[Seraphor]

This may not actually speed up queues at all.

What this would result in, is you entering multiple queues at once.
Not only would this strain the servers, everyone queuing with two classes would double the amount queuing at any one time, meaning queues would double in length. Three, four, five classes at once? You can see where this is heading?
Obviously 'queues' in the game don't work exactly like a real queue, but if there's any discrepancy in role allocation, which is what actually results in long queues in this game, that would only be amplified.

[Saccharin]

A simple in in demand role marker would be much simpler and effective.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

A simple in in demand role marker would be much simpler and effective.

You mean like the adventurer in need bonus that exists on all roulettes?

[Saccharin]

You mean like the adventurer in need bonus that exists on all roulettes?

Pretty much, but they could show it even if the job you're currently on is not getting it. It means you can switch job.

[althenawhm]

You mean like the adventurer in need bonus that exists on all roulettes?

But like, one that doesnt lie or updates more than once every five minutes.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Just being able to switch roles from the Duty Finder menu would be nice. Sometimes I see a role in need, go to change, and in the forty seconds or so it takes me to tab over and switch, the bonus changes.

[RyuSaarva]

But like, one that doesnt lie or updates more than once every five minutes.

it seems to update instantly, sometimes when I try to pop something I try different roles and the bonus always changes when I try to get instant pop with another role.

[Gemina]

As someone who can play many roles and has no preference...

Then queue up as the AiN, and call it a day.

Your intentions are good, but for the devs to come up with an algorithm to handle all this data without the servers exploding is a lot of unnecessary work for little, if any benefit when the players themselves have the ability to reduce queue times for others if that is what they truly care about.