Resetting queue when someone doesn't join is simply mind-boggling.

[Furious]

How exactly do you know it's a design choice and not a bug? There's lots of bugs in games where coders implemented something it works in the sense that it functions and doesn't crash. But the devils in the details and it's possible no one noticed this anomaly.


I'm still leveling I've only seen the reserving instance after I got a full group once. I've seen people fail to click the button when a group forms and I'm definately not being placed in the back of the queue. I don't see how that's possible when my Sastasha queue pops for the first time after a 40 minute wait then pops 3 times in 3 mins due to members not clicking their button. Hard to believe that would be an example of me being placed in the back of the queue.

It sounds like the queue system has two behaviors with the one your stuck in only happening in dungeons where there is a wait list to get an available instance. At least that's how I understand it from this thread. Same system with 2 behaviors depending on various conditions sounds like a bug to me.

The behaviour is very clear. The process is two part. The duty finder creates a group, then puts you in the instance queue. If there is no-one in the instance queue, the instance pops as soon as your group is formed. The former part, creating the group, works how it should. Individuals are at the front of the queue until they get into the dungeon; if their group fails to come together, they get reassigned. Hence, when you queued for 40 minutes before a pop, you were waiting to get to the front of the queue for a healer.

Then, once the GROUP is formed, that group becomes a single entity and is placed in the instance queue. If this group, as a whole, fails to join, the group is broken and the individuals wait for another member to form a new group, which is placed at the back of the instance queue. The existance of the two step process is, I assume, the reason that the problem exists (groups based on individual queues, then instance based on group queue). It is not the same system twice, it is two mechanics within the same system.