"Unable to register. Duty registration has ended."

[Iscah]

A couple of times I've had a duty briefly come up, cancel and then instead of returning me to the queue, I get the message "Unable to register. Duty registration has ended." and I'm no longer in the queue. One time I saw it happen in front of me, another time it just happened while I'd left it to do other stuff, and came back to find the message in my chat log.

It's not the same thing as when you actively fail to press the Commence button and it tells you you've been penalised for not joining.

It may have only happened with my character on Sophia, and/or may have only been for PVP duties, but I'm not certain on either of those counts.

Has anyone else seen it happen, or know what causes it?

[Nizzi]

For PvP its because the map has changed so it kicks you out of the queue so you're not sitting there unable to match with anyone.

[Dikatis]

From what I've heard, every so often, the Crystalline Conflict map rotates. If your queue falls into one of those windows, you'll be booted out and get that message.

[BRVV]

As said the maps rotate. All in the manual. Just read the description of the instance / roulette.

[Iscah]

Oh, that's weird. It's not like you have any control over which map you queue for, so I would have thought the PVP queue just assembles a group of ten people and drops them into the current map. Maybe the queuing system can't handle it that way.

[Nizzi]

Oh, that's weird. It's not like you have any control over which map you queue for, so I would have thought the PVP queue just assembles a group of ten people and drops them into the current map. Maybe the queuing system can't handle it that way.

It likely does it to prevent you from just sitting in the queue forever; if 9 people queued right before the new map switches over, you'd be sitting in the queue for hours waiting for that 10th slot to be filled, but it's never going to be able to until the map comes back on rotation which is like 3+ hrs I believe.

[SannaR]

Yeah the maps rotate every what 90 mins? Course I don't think I ever qued up for CC right as the switch happened. With how quirky the DF can be I'm surprised that it actually kicks you out if you got unlucky and qued just as the map change was happening.