Linkup Queue Times
Adjusting/ Actually fixing the Linkup Queue times
With the new update and 'crime progression system' making money is harder in the aspect you have more RNG pre-requisites and its now soo time heavy and demanding then ever before which in itself is fine but the linkup app queue timer doesn't help in the slightest. I'm not sure exactly what changed but everything is now more cop reliant then ever before which results in waiting up to 2-4 hours at times for basic crimes like House robberies, not to mention when you queue for an actual job only to be met with 'On Hold', or just being fully unable to queue for a bigger job due to lack of cops. Which makes sense why would I go rob a bank, paleto or bank truck with no cops around? Exactly I wouldn't and thats where petty crime comes in IE House Robberies and Stores, both of which are lowest level and both of which have to be done as a criminal, but when you wait hours to hit a house just to get nothing you needed, or even the bare minimum loot its discouraging when alot of people cant be in for hours on end, waiting for these absurd timers. I've seen it said again and again the new systems cool but reverting back to the old would make life so much easier and accessible for so many people, at the least the linkup being reverted would be huge for those of us who cant wait ungodly amounts of time for even the lowest jobs.
At first glance 21 minutes 11 queue, thats not bad (image 1)
Then you actually join the queue and it becomes 2 hours which is absurd waiting 2 hours for a simple petty house robbery only to get this as your loot for waiting.
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aldente.
Mar 1, 2024
Guess what? Old linkup had the same "issues" with people being in queue for 6 hours and not receiving any sort of feedback in to why, also house robberies where in that same queue.
Cop counts for crime has remained unchanged in the criminal expansion.
Again, also an old linkup "issue". Only this time you can plan around it knowing the job is unavailable and why.
Last night queues for house robberies reached 40+. The cooldown between houses are 5 minutes. That means a new house robbery every 5 minutes. This is extremely low as it is. You don't seem to take into account the scale of the server and criminal activity.
Also without linkup at all here's how the server would run; people will camp "start locations" of heists and keep spamming it to know when it's off cooldown.
crimmain/cop
Mar 1, 2024
For the larger jobs sure, but when houses once were do X amount a storm, you could go pick whatever house you wanted and bang them out and focus on other things the remainder of the storm. The linkup queue time for larger jobs is obnoxiously long but like I said it makes sense, you need cops and theres no point robbing a bank without cops to chase you.
My main point was low end crime especially with the new system is 100x harder to do, with the new linkup timers.
You mention they haven't changed but the posted image reads Est wait time 2 hours, while only 12 are in queue, so if its 5 minutes between houses that would be 1 hour wait time no? So is it possible the times are off? If not perhaps they should be lowered, especially as how pivotal low level crime is now to progression - making cash/crypto and obtaining job equipment and even job materials.
A) House robberies are the start of every criminals adventures in Echo when it comes to progression now, it gives SDs, Crypto, Money, Guns, Ammo everything to get you on your feet.
B) Playing RP shouldn't feel like a chore, and having to wait hours on end to rob a house that might give you as little as $500 if you get unlucky is well pretty shitty. We all know its being looked at and monitored but at the same time it feels as if we're taking away from the base of entry level crime for the aspect of RP and balancing when 90% of house robberies will go unnoticed no alarms, no PD response anyways.
None of this is hostile and my point is just the linkup queue reads one thing, but then you queue for whatever job and its suddenly 100x longer (which can be seen in the photos above taken the same time before and after joining one reads 21 minutes the other 2 hours, more people etc.. A huge update just dropped and everyone wants a piece the queue is an example but locking people out of crime just make things harder for anyone who has limited time to play, after waiting in a queue for hours sometimes just to get in and wait in another queue?
matdidit
Mar 1, 2024
I've noticed this happens for all jobs, not just houses the app says Queue size, and a Est Time but once you join the queue it changes into like 2, 3 sometimes even 4 hour wait time for houses. Also with the comment from Greigh below, with everyone doing jobs now the linkup app has a large queue time for almost all jobs 90% of the time, with alot of them being put on hold and just stop moving completely. Does the linkup cooldown still go down during this time?
IE I queue for a Fleeca im 2/2 then I become 1/2 but the app goes on cooldown and everything freezes is the Fleeca cooldown still counting down during this time or does it no begin/resume the countdown until Linkup App goes off hold?
greigh.
Mar 1, 2024
I agree with this. A small wait time is fine because it gives you time to think of a plan with the heist. But two hours is a little excessive. It makes you have to stay on the server for hours and some people have OOC things such as work and family to take care of.