(09-04-2013, 08:56 AM)lady2beetle Wrote:Exactly this.(09-04-2013, 07:39 AM)Niklaus Lucin Wrote: Errr.. Anyone else kinda upset about the duty finder groups? Balmung was placed in "Group 1", while a lot of heavily populated servers were placed in "Group 2" - i.e. Gilgamesh, Leviathan, and Behemoth. I'm kind of worried this will hurt DF times by splitting it in half, not help
I don't think that's the case. I mean the thing with the duty finder is that it's all about proportions. If all the tanks and healers were in the other duty finder, sure, that would cause problems. But if you have 100 people queued up for a dungeon and 85% of them are dps, it won't be any worse than if you have 1000 people queued up and 85% of them are dps.
Actually... someone with math... would it actually be better?
Anyway, I don't think it's anything to worry about. On the contrary, I think the fact that we're more likely to run across people from our own server is kind of cool.
I guess I should clarify.
There are two potential situations. One is that when you queue, the DF is trying to find someone, anyone, who wants to do what you want to do. The second is that the DF actually puts you in a long line of people trying to do the same thing.
If option 1 was actually what was happening, then yes, the smaller group would be frustrating. But it's not, as shown by a few pieces of evidence:
a) Tanks and healers typically get insta-queues. That wouldn't be happening in option 1. It shows that the queue is actually a line of mostly dps waiting for a tank or healer or both.
b) When I did Ifrit, I stayed in that cavern and there were a TON of people standing around waiting. I could watch them and a few would disappear one after another until it was my turn. It wasn't that no one wanted to fight Ifrit - it was simply a matter of waiting my turn.
So, yeah. More or less people isn't going to hurt or help queue times at this point. The only thing that will affect it is the proportion of tanks and healers vs. dps.
Some mmorpgs do this and it works just fine. one that I'm aware of doing this is WoW, they split the dungeons/pvp instances by 'battlegroups' for these reasons and to probably put less stress on their servers like SE is currently doing.
