Please fix the “naked queueing” for Aliance Raids

[Nixxe]

they are not dragged out, it's just that everyone is used to the 1 minute blast-through that are the crystal raids. I bet that if difficulty were brought back to how it once was, you'll be saying the same for CT "Cerberus takes too long! the behemot is not dying fast enough! Scylla add phase can't be skipped I hate it!". aka, "I'm too lazy to do anything else but hit 1 button for 30 seconds"

You should stop to consider that you are just more easily amused and require less mental engagement to have fun than others.

[Novae]

CT roulette is beyond boring. That's the reason why I never queue for alliance roulette. It's faceroll easy and lvl 50 rotations are terrible.

Give me a 60/70 roulette and I'll gladly queue for it everyday.

[RyuDragnier]

I also challenge you to check your party list everything you queue in and report back how many times there isn't a 50 level player in it.

From the past week getting stuck in CT? 5 times there wasn't a level 50 in it. The other two there was. And I'll be honest, I'm okay with running CT if there's somebody new, they need it. But when there isn't...I don't want to deal with that crap, it's beyond boring.

[Veis_Alveare]

Hello Ms Legendary Dungeon Tank, how nice to see you again. You tell me not to respond to your posts but I guess you enjoy responding to mine.

This person prefers other later 24 man raids instead of the most commonly queued one which is LOTA. The solution would be to just queue for the raid you want. It just seems silly to queue 24 man alliance roulette knowing the most common one is LOTA and then complain when you get it. When I queue for a roulette I understand the instances will be randomly chosen for me based on everyone else queueing so I don't complain. Also, SE makes it very easy for people who don't get the instance they prefer. No one is forcing you to stay and complete the instance. You are allowed to leave, you just have to take the 30 minute penalty. So if you hate LOTA so much, there's always that option as well.

I was perfectly willing to be civil but I guess if you cant I can point out how I'd wager clear buyers would have trouble with things like basic reading comprehension.

As Packetdancer pointed out the issue isn't that the OP (or really most of the people in the thread) hate the CT raids, they hate that their roulette results are being manipulated by lazy people to the result that they're seeing less variety in the content they're running.

I hope that clears things up for you, if not I would offer a lengthier explanation at some exhorbinant price since I'm sure it wouldn't be the greatest sum you've spent amirite?

[DoH]

Considering the amount of Poetics you get from doing PvP content and roulettes when your level is over 50 and all the new Poetics vendors added everywhere, lack of money to buy gear pre-80 should not be a problem.

I don't think I really understood what Poetics were at the time and I don't think I could've really spent them anyway until I finished at least the ARR MSQ. Even now I'm not sure how someone who has completed the MSQ just through ARR would use Poetics to make a ton of money as you're suggesting. The stuff you buy with Poetics doesn't sell for that much. Also, you're assuming that new players will know to use poetics to buy and sell stuff on the Market Board. There's a lot of assumptions going on here.

[Granyala]

they are not dragged out, it's just that everyone is used to the 1 minute blast-through that are the crystal raids.

No, I thought they were dragged out back when they were brand new too.
Esp the Ronfaure (?) boss. Second last in the first raid IRRC.

They have too little mechanics, too little is happening and for too long you just stand there and mash your DPS buttons whittling away it's HP.

I totally agree with you that the syncing is beyond absurd in the CT/VA raids. You're basically one shotting the loot pinatas w/o seeing any proper boss mechanics.

[Veis_Alveare]

I don't think I really understood what Poetics were at the time and I don't think I could've really spent them anyway until I finished at least the ARR MSQ. Even now I'm not sure how someone who has completed the MSQ just through ARR would use Poetics to make a ton of money as you're suggesting. The stuff you buy with Poetics doesn't sell for that much. Also, you're assuming that new players will know to use poetics to buy and sell stuff on the Market Board. There's a lot of assumptions going on here.

I think what they're saying is that the poetics you get are more than enough to buy your next set of level cap gear. So between 50 and 60 you'll accrue enough to buy your 60 gear rather easily and so on, nothing about buying items to sell on the MB.

[LittleImp]

So then you always want to be stuck doing Crystal Tower with zero chance of ever seeing a different raid?

Because that's what removing those players from the Alliance roulette pool would accomplish. Since those players were no longer there to fill the Crystal Tower groups, you're now stuck doing it on a permanent basis when you choose to queue for Alliance roulette.

Think things through first.

You're functioning on the incredibly poor assumption that SE knows how to program their game, and that the anti-social weirdos that cheese their roulettes are consistently placed into groups with new players that are doing the content for the first time. As anyone who regularly runs the roulette knows, this is absolutely not the case. This kind of behavior is simply bloating the system with more, 'unnecessary' instances of CT raids that pull in roulette groups, and deny or significantly increase queue times for anyone trying to specifically queue anything else.

You're also vastly over-estimating the amount of players that actually participate in the ilevel cheese, probably because it helps you to rationalize an amoral behavior that you approve of.

This issue is basically:
"I want to more regularly experience the full variety of content that the Alliance Raid Roulette is meant to offer."
versus
"I want to manipulate the system in a way that personally conveniences me, at the theoretical cost of the preferences or expectations of other people."

[Granyala]

I think what they're saying is that the poetics you get are more than enough to buy your next set of level cap gear. So between 50 and 60 you'll accrue enough to buy your 60 gear rather easily and so on, nothing about buying items to sell on the MB.

I wonder about the "knowing" part though.
Does the game tell new folks that they can buy excellent gear with these stones? Or does SE hope they stumble upon the NPC by accident?

[ADVSS]

From the past week getting stuck in CT? 5 times there wasn't a level 50 in it. The other two there was. And I'll be honest, I'm okay with running CT if there's somebody new, they need it. But when there isn't...I don't want to deal with that crap, it's beyond boring.

Can we be real here? If you sign up for MSQ, you're given 2 boring options, and thats also a roullette. Does it really matter? Theyre both dailies, hence why a vast majority of people will do them, regardless of how boring they are. People can simply not choose to sign up for them, as per the argument over cutscenes being skippable or not. To me, the argument is the same on all ends. Like if people dont want to run CT, then dont sign up? Same for people who wish they could skip cutscenes? What I mean is MSQ is a roullette, but 9 times out of 10, for some god forsaken reason, you're given Castrum Meridanum, They call that a roullette. I do Alliance raids and 9/10 its LotA, or Syrcus Tower. I could just not sign up for the daily if it sickened me that much, just like anyone here can just not sign up for the alliance raids, if CT was that sickening to them.
Or I guess we could complain that SE needs to police people who sign up for the raids that are ilevel locked, some how. The amount of coding required to force a player, in less than ideal gear, i just dont know how it would do it without an in depth search feature before someone signs into anything. It sounds like a bigger problem will occur from attempting to "fix the non issue reallu" than to just simply have people who by now understand that they will most likely get these raids, and just not sign up for them at all. The actual real result of this is that they a - will have to split alliance raids to levels and add more daily bonuses for the higher tier raids(a winning suggestion btw from those that had brought this up_) or b will have to deal with new players complaining they cant progress at all because of this and no one queuing, which will force them to make more attractive rewards for veteran players to even bother. Also a win for everybody.
The solution seems pretty simple to me. Just stop doing the daily roulette. If nothing else happens, at least you wont die from boredom. just manually queue for puppets instead, thats what you want to run anyway. And if the wave of people not interested in doing alliance raids is high enough, SE will have to address the issue, because it is now required to progress in story and is no longer an opt in or out sort of thing.