Penalty for watching cutscene

[Yma]

Ugh this is a rant post.

I do not understand why there is no way to pause your queue when you are watching a cut scene. All I want to do is work on a few quests whilst I queue, but they all have cutscenes, and the queues always seem to pop in the middle of them! Was just queuing 30 mins to get into Urths Fount. It popped during a long cutscene and I had the choice of either exiting the cutscene or losing my spot.

To top it off, you then get an abandoned penalty. The whole thing is infuriating, and encourages you to do something outside the game instead. I’m not going to sit and watch my character for 30 mins. Other MMOs simply pause your queue when you are not in a position to accept the group.

Anyways, it’s very frustrating and I’d love it if they fixed it somehow.

[Misutoraru]

It is weird that some cutscene allow the queue pop up and let you enter the queued content and “reset” the cutscene
Some other cutscene I think it is mainly MSQ? Allow the queue to pop up but don’t let you join until the cut scene finish or you skip it
I don’t understand why can’t all the cutscene or set to “reset” if the player choose to join the content, they just have to chop the long non stop chain quest into smaller pieces

[RobynDaBank]

It is weird that some cutscene allow the queue pop up and let you enter the queued content and “reset” the cutscene
Some other cutscene I think it is mainly MSQ? Allow the queue to pop up but don’t let you join until the cut scene finish or you skip it
I don’t understand why can’t all the cutscene or set to “reset” if the player choose to join the content, they just have to chop the long non stop chain quest into smaller pieces

Hmm, recently I ditched an MSQ cutscene in Shadowbringers in favour of a queue pop, it was ready for reset when I returned. Perhaps it's not applicable for all of them? Would be odd.

I think the "pop during cutscene" is a bad situation only if you changed your job after you queued up and before you started the cutscene. No way to accept that pop without worming out of the scene and returning to your queued up job. Sadly IMO a full wait option would be iffy since cutscenes can vary from a minute or so to several minutes (even those without the long scenes warning), and an instance doesn't begin until everyone accepts. After all there has to be a limit on how long pop is available, it keeps both those behind you and those who accepted waiting for an unknown amount of time.

Either way, you can miss one or at the most two pops per day with the penalty count, so it gives some leeway at least. Worst that happens here is for DDs who wait for many minutes, risk a cutscene, decline queue but have to start waiting again. It seems a little too situational to warrant a long wait solution instead.

[Iscah]

Hmm, recently I ditched an MSQ cutscene in Shadowbringers in favour of a queue pop, it was ready for reset when I returned. Perhaps it's not applicable for all of them? Would be odd.

It is indeed odd. Sometimes you can accept the duty mid-cutscene, so the cutscene doesn't get marked complete and you can rewatch it from the start once you come out of the duty. But other times, even if you're the same class that you signed up to queue with, you get an error when you try to accept – from memory, something about "cannot use the duty finder while occupied" or something like that.

I've been trying to make a list of them when they happen, to see if there's a pattern. Perhaps it's cutscenes that behave in some particular way.

[Ranaku]

I think someone doesn't understand how a queue works...if you get into a queue in a themepark...and you just go quick to get a hotdog or something...and then come back and can't get into the same spot in the line or the ride already started...that is your fault you know that, yeah?

Maybe you learned your lesson now and don't to stuff that prevents you from accepting the invite. Maybe gather some mats next time. Or just wait and be a bit patient.

[Fayt1203]

I think someone doesn't understand how a queue works...if you get into a queue in a themepark...and you just go quick to get a hotdog or something...and then come back and can't get into the same spot in the line or the ride already started...that is your fault you know that, yeah?

Maybe you learned your lesson now and don't to stuff that prevents you from accepting the invite. Maybe gather some mats next time. Or just wait and be a bit patient.

?????? did you read the post she was asking why she gets a penalty when the system dose not allow her to accepted the duty while in Msq cutscene with out skipping it and is pointing out that need to change which i agree though don't know how they would be able to do that

[Jeeqbit]

It's inconsiderate to ask everyone else to wait 30 minutes for you to finish your cut scenes.

If you accept the queue while in a cut scene, you will be able to watch them after from the beginning, but if you remember how far you got you can just click through the text you already read.

Urth's Fount is supplied by Mentor Roulette, which can only be used by level 80 players that have met the battle requirements, so it can take a very long time if it even succeeds at all. You may experience the same problem with Minstrel's Ballad/Extreme trials and coils.

[MellowMink]

If someone is in the middle of the one-and-a-half hours of cutscenes at the end of A Realm Reborn's follow-up story patches, it's unreasonable for others to have to wait for them to first finish.

[Illmaeran]

It would be lovely if they could change the queue system to automatically pause a player's status in the queue when in a cutscene and resume it when they're done. For example, I'm 15th in line for a place in a party and start a cutscene. My progress in the queue is paused so that I remain 15th in the queue during the cutscene while others behind me progress in the queue. Once the cutscene's done, my queue progress resumes as normal. That way we don't get a penalty, are able to remain in the queue without going all the way back to the end, and the people behind us are able to move up in line as normal.

[Xirean]

The thing that bothers me about que pop during cutscenes is if I qued as a different job than I am during the cutscene. The only way to change jobs is to skip the cutscene to get out of it. I'd really like a "pause" or "eject" option to get out of it and simply mark it as unfinished. I don't want to go to the inn and find the cutscene in my journal just because of a que pop.