Castrum Queue and the overflow lottery

[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.