Castrum Queue and the overflow lottery

[Nafreyu]

I stuck around in a map, doing everything needed while waiting for a queue to pop for CLL. Queue'd as was 18/48, I thought 'Great. I chose a poor instance anyway as had to wait closer to the full hour and must have just missed the last one'.

Only to find, that 55/48, I missed out. Most likely because of that shard priority engagement buff.

MF'rs stole my queue. I was so livid, I had to go and play something else for a bit to cool down.

Either way, point of the post is it's an interesting map, I enjoyed it, but mechanics like that where there's potential to miss out, no thanks. Not playing that part any further.

[DrWho2010]

the "Priority" buff from cluster purchase does NOT work for CLL. it's up to RNGesus if you're queuing solo if you'll get in or not. probably have more luck with a full 8 man party going in.

[van_arn]

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

[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?

[Riyshn]

the "Priority" buff from cluster purchase does NOT work for CLL. it's up to RNGesus if you're queuing solo if you'll get in or not. probably have more luck with a full 8 man party going in.

Citation needed.

Literally the ONLY thing we know for sure about Priority is that the entire party has to have it for it to work. ANYTHING ELSE is speculation.

You say it doesn't work? You're working from the assumption that it's purely a pass/fail mechanic, where people with the buff will always get in before people without. Where is your source for this assumption? It could easily be something like "roll twice, take the higher number" or "roll + 50", either of which would sometimes make it look like the buff didn't work, but does still give you better odds of getting in.

[MariaArvana]

Citation needed.

Literally the ONLY thing we know for sure about Priority is that the entire party has to have it for it to work. ANYTHING ELSE is speculation.

You say it doesn't work? You're working from the assumption that it's purely a pass/fail mechanic, where people with the buff will always get in before people without. Where is your source for this assumption? It could easily be something like "roll twice, take the higher number" or "roll + 50", either of which would sometimes make it look like the buff didn't work, but does still give you better odds of getting in.

Sure, but given the buff states "Officially selected for priority deployment in critical engagements per Resistance leadership." and the fact that the other marching orders are a 100% guarantee you get into the CE, it's hard to imagine that Marching Orders is some random buff but not guaranteed mechanic, since if it wasn't guaranteed, it would fail to get you into any non-Castrum CE's at a decent rate (Since plenty of them have 60+ people queueing into them in the first zone regularly) and be well documented by now.

Even in my personal experience, I have never failed to get into a single non-Castrum CE even once with marching orders up across around a hundred or two of CE's, but have failed to get into Castrum 5x now out of 8 attempts with marching orders up. it's pretty damming evidence its ignored for Castrum.

[SecretIsland]

I stuck around in a map, doing everything needed while waiting for a queue to pop for CLL. Queue'd as was 18/48, I thought 'Great. I chose a poor instance anyway as had to wait closer to the full hour and must have just missed the last one'.

Only to find, that 55/48, I missed out. Most likely because of that shard priority engagement buff.

MF'rs stole my queue. I was so livid, I had to go and play something else for a bit to cool down.

Either way, point of the post is it's an interesting map, I enjoyed it, but mechanics like that where there's potential to miss out, no thanks. Not playing that part any further.

Is this an alliance raid? (Didn’t know there are 48-man ones!) That happens to me sometimes. It will tell me there are 10/15 Dps queuing and I’m in the #1 position on the queue. Then suddenly everyone disappears and I’m suddenly 1/15 DPS. Just have to be patient, I typically only wait for a few minutes. Maybe queuing during prime time will help?

[JamieRose]

the "Priority" buff from cluster purchase does NOT work for CLL. it's up to RNGesus if you're queuing solo if you'll get in or not. probably have more luck with a full 8 man party going in.

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