Time to Accepted Duty

[Farrongoth]

The time to accept a duty when queuing needs to be increased, as DPS I do other things while waiting for queue. It always procs when I'm in the middle of something and it is unbelievably frustrating.

It needs to have time to accept of two minutes in my opinion. Potentially extended if the player is in a cutscene or it can wait until the cutscene is finished.

Otherwise I can literally do nothing when waiting for a duty.

If I withdraw in the middle of doing something because I know I can't make the time I should not get a 30 minute penalty, this is literally something that is making me want to quit the game.

[Darkmoonrise]

For your frustrating problem :
* All cutscene can be rewatched in your room.
* If you're in the middle of a fight or a discussion, they will be reseted.

It's still frustrating but making 3/7/23 peoples wait on you for 2+ minutes is frustrating as well. So here are some things you can do while waiting for a duty :
* Grinding fates
* Hunting
* Crafting
* Gathering
* Treasure hunt (solo only, otherwise the instances could pop)
* Triple triad
* Social interaction / RPing
* Glamour
* Housing
* Grinding achievements
* Watch Netflix / Youtube
* Doing the dishes
* Doing some exercise/movement IRL
* Read a book
* Play with the cat?
* Pay your bills
* [...]

[Farrongoth]

extra 2 minutes is nothing when your waiting 30 minute.

[Rongway]

Those of us who are prepared for the queue pop shouldn't have to wait 1m59s for the unprepared people to finish what they were doing instead of being ready for the queue pop.

[Darkmoonrise]

extra 2 minutes is nothing when your waiting 30 minute.

It's not because your queue time was 30 minutes that everybody's queue time was 30 minutes. At least 1 person per group had a queue time of 0 sec.

[Farrongoth]

So I should be screwed over because of that? I fail to see the point

[Darkmoonrise]

1. You're not screwed just frustrated.
2. You're not worth more than the other players. You being frustrated is not more important than 3/7/23 people being frustrated.

So to answer your question. Yes.

[Frizze]

If youre ready to go when the que pops, 45 seconds already feels too long. Just sitting. Waiting. Not knowing if the last person is going to hit go, or if we're going to do the whole thing over again with the next person. And then the next. And the next. You want to increase the timer for half of a loot roll? Absurd.

And yes, as a DPS ive also been the person in the middle of something when the que pops. Tricking the que into thinking youre doing something else is a classic way to get it to go faster. Trying to hurry up something that takes a specific length of time to do so you can hit accept(probly after switching classes back to the one you qued on). In this case, hoping someone else drops out so you get an extra few seconds to finish up. Still wouldnt extend the time.

OP - I notice you have your character listed on one of the euro data centers. If your ques are always that long(they shouldnt be) you might try the language trick. Tell the duty finder to accept ques for people speaking any language, and not just english. It makes a HUGE difference on some servers.

Edit: You also might check the specific type of content youre queing into. You mention in another thread attempting Ramuh (Ex) via duty finder. This type of content(as well as savage difficulty raids) is typically handled by pre-made parties using the party finder tool instead. Some of them are qued so rarely that you can literally wait hours and never see a match. Duty finder is most effective with dungeons, story mode trials(hard difficulty basically), normal mode raids, and alliance raids.

[Farrongoth]

Right so, when someone fails to Accept a queue I get put back in queue at the top. This I do not find annoying at all and maybe would happen less if the time was increased.

46 sec is not enough time to finish Mocching when you are halfway through a two step mooch. Most Fates that I'm waiting for while also queue duty proc the second the fate proc the duty then immediately procs, bad luck I know but still frustrating. Most Fates of which I can easily finish within two minutes. Most I could finish within 30 seconds but the game takes ages to let me change to relevant class.

It's not because your queue time was 30 minutes that everybody's queue time was 30 minutes. At least 1 person per group had a queue time of 0 sec.

So I wait 9/15/30/45 minutes and people can't wait 2 minutes. As that was your original someone might have a had a queue time of zero, so why can't they wait 2 minutes serious, whose the entitled one there.

So yes, yes I am screwed, not especially because I am then locked for 30 minutes from queuing.

I will accept the cutscene one is a little harder to deal with.

[Farrongoth]

The only other thing is better estimates but that not an easy task.