Queue time dread throttler

[b3nzyme]

Here is something that can throttle queue time dread... since queue times are a way of life at the moment, can we put something in place in the software that would allow people who unexpectedly and randomly (yet quickly) disconnect and reconnect be able to log back into the game without being thrown to the back of the queue? I seldom dc, and this time it was brief because of a quickly-passing over thunderstorm that is at this moment no longer over us.

Today at work, I could not fathom how there were an insurmountable amount of people surging the shopping centers everywhere. Now when I got home to enjoy some ff14, I'm doing the second to last role quest for endwalker, and we got a brief and quick moment where the lights in the house "browned out". It was quick enough that it fortunately did not turn my pc off, but it in fact threw my modem offline. My modem came back online, and you know the rest of the story. 2k queue at 5pm central. 2k queue at 2pm isn't so bad. At 5pm, nobody is logging off, so I'm dreading how much time is going to be spent waiting in queue before I'll ultimately have to make a choice between losing sleep for work again or just not doing that and instead, cutting the game time short and just telling myself "it'll all be over soon. After enduring another rush of customers tomorrow due to the football lovers in this state, i might soon be able to pick up where i left off on this story"

Q.Q.

[ibiteyourankle]

They already have that in place. You just do not notice it right now because of how overloaded the login requests are and the timer that they currently have on those that DC while in the game. The ones that DC while in-game becomes over writtened by the sheer amount of login requests.

[b3nzyme]

wow

i basically just watched the rest of my role quest chain on youtube so when i log in, i can just fly through them. such is the way for now

[Shibi]

Here is something that can throttle queue time dread... since queue times are a way of life at the moment, can we put something in place in the software that would allow people who unexpectedly and randomly (yet quickly) disconnect and reconnect be able to log back into the game without being thrown to the back of the queue?

I always feel bad for the people - who in a dungeon - disconnect for whatever reason. Some people do have real crappy internet, and glasses of water do get knocked over computers. A 5 minute login token for the specific character would have been super nice, as that's the time I normally allow people in a dungeon before kicking and getting a replacement.

But I get the feeling the decade+ old lobby server code is now þe olde arcane science. Things held together with chewing gum, duct tape, and coathangers & documented with post-it notes taped to a whiteboard that has been untouched for 10 years... (Don't laugh, my previous job at a major international airline had one of these)

One mistake, and nobody can log in at all.

To do it at all would need a lot of QA, and that QA would have to be perfectly and expertly done. Not a single bug.

We can hope!

[Larirawiel]

To do it at all would need a lot of QA, and that QA would have to be perfectly and expertly done. Not a single bug.

We can hope!

QA team vs dev team would be like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=981Pl9-pCLQ




But yes, 5 minutes time to reconnect without queue would be really good. Other games have it already in place.


Cheers

[Shibi]

I've always loved that video. Poor girl, she starts out so happy.