MSQ cutscenes - Allow vote to skip if there are no first time/new players

[DarmaniLink]

While I don't mind it being unskippable for any new players who want to enjoy the story, if everyone has already completed it (and watched the cutscene) once, it only really serves to further increase the amount of time it takes to do MSQ roulette.

It seems like a good middle ground, I'm sure a few people would still grumble over having to wait on new players, but I'd think most people wouldn't mind given that whenever they don't have any new players they can now skip. Because right now, its a massive pain point.

The code is already there to check if there are any new players, any you have the ready check system to use to skip on a unanimous vote. Prototyping this wouldn't take more than an hour for whoever gets the ticket.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Skip cutscenes and reduce rewards by 90%.

The rewards exist because of the cutscenes.

Just don't run the roulette if you don't want to spend the time...

[Allegor]

This topic is brought up so often it's not even bait material

[Tint]

It seems like a good middle ground, I'm sure a few people would still grumble over having to wait on new players, but I'd think most people wouldn't mind given that whenever they don't have any new players they can now skip. Because right now, its a massive pain point.

Why should they grumble? They can just kick the new player.

As others have said: The rewards for that roulette are so good because of the long cutscenes. Skipping them and the rewards should be lost.

Just don't run the roulette. Spend your time better by running 2 normal dungeons instead.

[Clover_Blake]

People would mass quit if they realize there's a new player. I can see why that's not an option.

Making cutscenes unskippable was a way to help newbies enjoy the dungeon and watch the story. Giving people a reason to quit would just bring a new problem worse than the previous one.

(And for the record, I try avoiding that roulette like a plague).

[SherlottaEryut]

While I don't mind it being unskippable for any new players who want to enjoy the story, if everyone has already completed it (and watched the cutscene) once, it only really serves to further increase the amount of time it takes to do MSQ roulette.

Agreed. I don’t mind if new players would like to watch a cutscene but I really do think the MSQ goes on for way too long to the point where even they would get fed up of it..

Maybe both of the MSQ can be split into 2 parts, so gives us 4 potential places to turn up in the roulette.

Castrum part 1 and part 2 - kinda don’t think this one needs to be split into two because it’s more lively and I feel time goes by quickly.

Praetorium part 1 and part 2 - I think this one would benefit the most from being split into seperate runs due to the numerous, long cutscenes.

Not sure if what I typed made sense ‘cause I’ve not long woken up

[Alien_Gamer]

Yoshi addressed this in a live letter shortly after the unskipable cs were added. In short, the lockout is a global setting for each dungeon and there's no way to toggle it based on party composition.

And what Valkyrie said, if you don't want to watch the cut scenes, don't run the roulette. You've got other ways of earning those tomes easily, use them.

[TheMightyMollusk]

If it were a vote,you'd have people refusing just to troll the party by wasting everyone's time.

[SenorPatty]

I really hate to quote this but: "Don't you guys have phones?"

You know, to pass the time during cutscenes. Or alt-tab?

[Kyu-Momo]

If you don't want to watch cutscenes then don't queue. It's as simple as that.