Gourd

60 minute queue time in Final Fantasy XIV for Pandamoneum 8 Normal before I got in. Jeez.

I'm completely log-jammed because MSQ (main plot quests) also requires me to do an solo instance right now, and I can't do Alliance Raids until I progress MSQ. And you can't enter solo duties when queued for a multiplayer duty so...

I even asked the players in the raid "are you mentor roulette" (the duty that fills the longest waiting queues), but no, they were all Raid Roulette. I hadn't even been in queue long enough for the mercy system to kick in.

this is increasingly absurd, I just need to read a book or something while waiting lol

#FinalFantasyXIV #FFXIV #EmetSelchsAncientDMVSimulator

Apr 12 at 4:05amWeb
Show threadGourd2d ago

Keep in mind that I have a thirty second time limit to accept the duty whenever it fills, and if I don't accept it in that time not only do I have to start over, there is a thirty minute lockout as a punishment.

so uh, hope I don't have to go to the restroom

Show threadkera vortiwife2d ago
@gourd ITS SO FUCKING MISERABLE I HATE IT HERE. I USED TO START SINGING MARGARITAVILLE IN THE GENCHAT IN THE HOPES THAT PPL WOULD GET SO ANNOYED THAT THEY'D QUEUE JUST TO SHUT ME UP
Show threadKitkat, winter love account2d ago
@gourd Yeah, the mogtome event has made queuing for other normal raids nearly impossible (except the DT ones). I helped a friend complete Panda recently and we just made a pf that specified it was for a first timer, that I then shouted in the city states and the endgame cities of our DC
Show threadGourd2d ago

@kincat of course the event designed to make it easier to queue for content that isn't queued for is making my queuing worse

of course it is lmao

Show threadKitkat, winter love account2d ago
@gourd last time they actually used less queued raids iirc… but there's no point in encouraging people to queue Alex when basically everyone who does normal raids to begin with will have them unlocked 🙄
Show threadGourd2d ago
@kincat the incredible troll option would be putting mogtomes on Crystal Tower :p
Show threadKitkat, winter love account2d ago
@gourd don't speak so loud, yoship could hear you
Show threadEzlin2d ago

@gourd @kincat

Mmm, well, they have done this in the past with other "event"-related currencies, so.. you never know.

😮‍💨

I'd give one of my morning cups of coffee to YoshiPls if he would just move all CT raids to MSQ roulette. But I digress..

Show threadTlapka🐾 2d ago
@gourd I suspect the game's queues aren't smart enough to even have a mercy system ngl

the game's notorious for sending people to the lowest level alliance raid, for example, instead of allowing the higher level people to help someone that's queuing for a higher level alliance raid instead, which just hints at a simple greedy algorithm that just creates lobbies as fast as possible instead of trying to match you to someone that's waited the longest