Can we please remove old content that no one does anymore for more dev time?

[Reap00]

I know this is a troll topic and removing content is stupid but...

Something has to be done. The roulettes are not enough anymore to fill the queues. We have too much content and there are not enough people in the roulettes to fill all those 8-man trials and 24 man raids. The roulettes worked in ARR and HW, but nowadays you have to wait for hours to progress through the stuff.

Yea and this is a troll response in a troll topic. I have never waited the times you suggest for anything in this game.

[LittleImp]

Yea and this is a troll response in a troll topic. I have never waited the times you suggest for anything in this game.

I have an AUS friend who regularly encountered 1.5 hour queue times while trying to progress through Omega normal. I once waited 2.5 hours to get into one of the stormblood Alliance Raids. Even during off-peak hours, that's pretty excessive.

This issue seems to unsurprisingly affect ilevel-cheese prone duties like Normal Raids and Alliance Raids the most, so fixing that may be a reasonable place to start.

[Iscah]

I have an AUS friend who regularly encountered 1.5 hour queue times while trying to progress through Omega normal. I once waited 2.5 hours to get into one of the stormblood Alliance Raids. Even during off-peak hours, that's pretty excessive.

This issue seems to unsurprisingly affect ilevel-cheese prone duties like Normal Raids and Alliance Raids the most, so fixing that may be a reasonable place to start.

99% chance they are on one of the Japanese data centres but didn't have their duty finder set to include Japanese. The queue times are awful if you're waiting on, ultimately, two eligible tanks and two healers from a minority language to be in the roulette at the same time.

Levelling roulette ignores language settings, but everything else follows it.

The worst queue I have ever encountered (outside of misguided attempts to queue for EX trials) was a 40-minute wait to get into Orbonne when it wasn't current, and that's because my first queue came up unexpectedly quickly so I missed it.

[LittleImp]

99% chance they are on one of the Japanese data centres but didn't have their duty finder set to include Japanese. The queue times are awful if you're waiting on, ultimately, two eligible tanks and two healers from a minority language to be in the roulette at the same time.

They play on NA during offpeak hours, so I guess it's the 1%. Roulette's themselves aren't generally a problem, it's content in exploitable roulette's that rely on roulette groups to fill.

[Veis_Alveare]

99% chance they are on one of the Japanese data centres but didn't have their duty finder set to include Japanese. The queue times are awful if you're waiting on, ultimately, two eligible tanks and two healers from a minority language to be in the roulette at the same time.

Levelling roulette ignores language settings, but everything else follows it.

The worst queue I have ever encountered (outside of misguided attempts to queue for EX trials) was a 40-minute wait to get into Orbonne when it wasn't current, and that's because my first queue came up unexpectedly quickly so I missed it.

I have waited (not actively, like doing things irl in range to hear the queue pop) more than an hour and a half to try to complete Ridorana and Rabanastre on my alt once I knew they would be necessary for the ShB relic. I play on NA and have just English enabled.

These queue times happen and it is due to ilvl cheese. It needs to go.

[Doozer]

I play on NA and have just English enabled.

You may want to enable other languages too. I don't know how much of a difference it makes, but I think I've only encountered one other player not speaking English anyway, and it didn't affect the duty at all so it can't hurt either.

[Kirika-]

You may want to enable other languages too. I don't know how much of a difference it makes, but I think I've only encountered one other player not speaking English anyway, and it didn't affect the duty at all so it can't hurt either.

To add, enable Join Party In Progress in your Duty Finder settings.
That way you can jump ahead in line when a party needs a member after one had dropped/got kicked while already in a Duty.

[Iscah]

I have waited (not actively, like doing things irl in range to hear the queue pop) more than an hour and a half to try to complete Ridorana and Rabanastre on my alt once I knew they would be necessary for the ShB relic. I play on NA and have just English enabled.

These queue times happen and it is due to ilvl cheese. It needs to go.

Unfortunately I think it's one of those things that is a lot more widespread on the American data centres than the Japanese ones, so the dev team don't see it happening so much.

Add in the fact that even without that element, you're naturally going to have less people queuing who are eligible for the Lv70 raids than the Lv50 ones. If you assumed an even spread of people of various levels queuing, anyone at levels 50-69 isn't able to access Ivalice even if they wanted. That's two thirds of the roulette automatically ineligible, and likely to drag the last third down to their level. Assuming that third aren't the ones who are cheesing...

[Kuroka]

99% chance they are on one of the Japanese data centres but didn't have their duty finder set to include Japanese.

This should no longer work? i though after a 10 min or smt the languages are ignored.

I have an AUS friend who regularly encountered 1.5 hour queue times while trying to progress through Omega normal. I once waited 2.5 hours to get into one of the stormblood Alliance Raids. Even during off-peak hours, that's pretty excessive.

This issue seems to unsurprisingly affect ilevel-cheese prone duties like Normal Raids and Alliance Raids the most, so fixing that may be a reasonable place to start.

Yes i had the same issue with friends on shiva, during any time that isnt 17:00-18:00.

Honestly if its too much work or they simply dont want to, to not upset ppl, then pls, just give us a roulett for each of the raids...

[Deceptus]

I have an AUS friend who regularly encountered 1.5 hour queue times while trying to progress through Omega normal. I once waited 2.5 hours to get into one of the stormblood Alliance Raids. Even during off-peak hours, that's pretty excessive.

This issue seems to unsurprisingly affect ilevel-cheese prone duties like Normal Raids and Alliance Raids the most, so fixing that may be a reasonable place to start.

Lower ilvl sync on the old ARR 24 mans would be a start. Labrynth of the Ancients syncing down to 110/120 when the it should be ~ ilvl 60 (maybe 90 max) or so.