Castrum Queue and the overflow lottery

[MsMisato]

Leaving things like this up to RNGesus is insanely dumb on Squeenix's part, just one of many reasons BSF needs a complete overhaul.

its not true. I have gotten in every time solo. you queue up, wait for it allow you to enter the instance and just go. I won't stick around for a fate or anything because it sure feels like tis first come first serve with CE. I mean next time you are in look at /say, /yell with the shear number of people lfg

[van_arn]

I really wish we had a DR style queue for Castrum.

[Puremallace]

I really wish we had a DR style queue for Castrum.

Far too much common sense for this to actually happen.

[Kaurhz]

Wouldn't mind seeing a Delubrum themed queue for Castrum Lacus Litore. I equally don't understand very much why the instance population cap is 72, yet the cap for Critical Engagements and so fourth is 48. Just make them consistent and in-line at the very least.

[Seraphor]

Wouldn't mind seeing a Delubrum themed queue for Castrum Lacus Litore. I equally don't understand very much why the instance population cap is 72, yet the cap for Critical Engagements and so fourth is 48. Just make them consistent and in-line at the very least.

Because not everyone in Bozja is going into Castrum?

[Nafreyu]

But what if they wanted to?

[Iscah]

But what if they wanted to?

Allowing all 72 participants to join in for Castrum would be setting it up to fail even more so than the current situation.

It's highly unlikely that everyone in the zone is prepared to join in, even if the instance is full - but the battle would be set up around the expectation that all those people could be participating.

It's like the previous issue that people could only scrape half a team together and they couldn't handle the geared-for-48 mechanics. That problem is already likely to resurface once the excitement dies down, so having it instead geared for 72 would only make it far worse.

[Riyshn]

That's actually not likely to be an issue with CLL. It already scales enemy HP based on population.

[Iscah]

That's actually not likely to be an issue with CLL. It already scales enemy HP based on population.

I thought people have said that it doesn't? Or possibly it has the problem of the other skirmishes where it's based on previous participation so a small group after a large group is out of luck.

Still, even if the difficulty scales, a small group is going to rattle around an arena built to be packed with 72 players, and mechanics requiring a certain amount of players to do a thing are harder. There's also probably less margin for error and more chance of a wipe simply because there are less people around.

[Riyshn]

I thought people have said that it doesn't? Or possibly it has the problem of the other skirmishes where it's based on previous participation so a small group after a large group is out of luck.

Still, even if the difficulty scales, a small group is going to rattle around an arena built to be packed with 72 players, and mechanics requiring a certain amount of players to do a thing are harder. There's also probably less margin for error and more chance of a wipe simply because there are less people around.

It doesn't scale linearly - a full group (should) still have an easier time than a small group. But it's also a matter of people being prepared. A group of 13 (the smallest party I know to have cleared it) bringing full DPS essences and action will likely have an easier time than a group of 30+ who don't bring anything.