If I need to go to the toilet while in queue and it pops while I am there. No big deal just re-queue.
I usually never miss it as I do what I need to before I queue.
If I need to go to the toilet while in queue and it pops while I am there. No big deal just re-queue.
I usually never miss it as I do what I need to before I queue.
This would be a nice feature, I hate missing ques when I step away from the computer for a few minutes. Post it in the Battle.Net Forums definitely!
Something like that would be really nice, but IMO the act of waiting (like for a queue) is a task just like any other, albeit a mostly passive one. It's a calculated risk, but if you can accomplish making boom-boom while waiting at the same time then grats on multitasking. If not, oh well, L2Pee
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It's been dropped on the official site tons of times. They just don't care to implement such a feature. Likely cost more to make than the number of people who would actually use it. Just my take on it.
I usually shit before I queue, but hey, I can see it working.
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"Hm, 30 minutes in queue, average queue time is 58 minutes. Should be enough to go to the toilet" Forget it, 90% chance the you'll get the invite right when you leave the room. I would welcome a pause button.
Imagine you are one of the other 24 players who have been waiting to get in. Now you queue just got extended cause someone forgot to go piss before hitting the queue button. now stack this affect as you gain people in the finder. if all 24 people have an auto-pause setup, you could conceivably add up to 120 minutes to a queue time.
planning your idle time is a good thing too; called being efficient. When you see 30-60 mins, you shouldn't sit with your thumbs in your ass waiting on a queue, if the only thing you feel like doing that day is getting that queueing over with; then a smart person would be getting other stuff done while in their mandatory waiting line for the 'fun'.
BTW, let me call ahead to any restaurant you are going to and make sure that anyone making your food goes potty and only takes 38 seconds to wipe, pull up pants, wash hands, and be back at their position ... I'm sure you'll LOVE how sanitary that is, right?
It requires a MINIMUM of 20 seconds of warm water and soap scrubbing to effectively cleanse your hands of germs. If you were doing effective hygiene, then that would leave you less than 18 seconds to wipe, pull up your pants, dry your hands, ascend/descend a flight of stairs, get to your chair, and click accept.
Pause buttons affects YOU in no way at all. All it does do, is allow people who've been in queue for 45 mins and find that their body has decided they have to go potty OR someone rang the doorbell that wasn't expected OR any other random possibility that can take you away for less than a minute for any reason, to retain their position in queue, while other people get to -move ahead- of them while they are paused.
There is no negative here; it is simply giving courtesy to the loyal, paying customer.
People will have to just keep abusing the system though, by using proving grounds or other personal scenarios to hold their position, which technically is an (albeit minor) larger strain on their systems overall. If you have thousands/hundreds of thousands of people holding spots on instance servers to save their spot in a queue, it would be much better for their systems overall (once implemented) to just have the ability to pause in a situation that you must leave your PC.
Hell, even when a queue pops, you should have an option to 'pass to next in queue and pause' because things can literally come up as the queue pops (like doorbells, phone calls, etc); but that is asking a bit much from people who are so ignorant to real life that a pause button seems outrageous, as if they've never had a feeling to poop or piss sneak up on them in their life; or any other thing pop up unexpectedly.
I'm sure people like that are the opposite of what they claim; it makes them feel better to spit lies of their delusions of grandeur so they seem bigger than life to people on the internet, while they wallow in their insecurities and depression when they step away from their concocted fantasies on the screen and into their daily life.
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They could easily configure it so you would 'step aside' in the queue, so you don't lose your place, but don't have to go to the end of the line again. A timeout would also likely apply... say no longer than 5-10 minutes?
This!
Imagine you have been in queue for 1h (so you're likely a dps) and are - unkowningly ofc - number 1 in the dps dungeon group. This means you will be on the next group. But then your body kicks in but you reaaaaaaaally must go and do it.
With the current system you would hang on, hopefully waiting until the last possible minute to get into the group and then go "do it". Ask for a little break to the group if you're polite.
With the pause system you would pause the queue when you felt the nature's call, the number 2 (and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6) would go in your stead into that ready group and then when you return and un-pause you'd still be number one and going on the 1st group formed.
Gains:
a) 1 less ready-check timeout for players 2,3,4,5 and 6;
b) you haven't been in line for 1 hour for nothing and didn't crap yourself in the process.
Perhaps you should consider rolling a tank class or a healer class? Shorter Ques. Moreover, if you only want to log in to raid (and not do anything else), why don't you try giving oqueue or openraid a try instead? That way you can attempt to find a raid that runs at your schedule so you can do your pooping either before or after raid (and never during raid, especially during a boss).
Alternatively, there are these things called dailies, farming, harvesting, and TI stuff that you could be doing during that "downtime".
That's probably true.
So, now, I need more queue pausers I mean class trainers sprinkled about?
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But, I can't go 45 minutes without coffee, and if I have coffee ...
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This person gets it.