Remove instance-cap on bosses

Currently most bosses are limited to 1 ongoing run per cc. As is, some bosses will reach capacity during peak hours with 8 channels, notably Zakum, and during event raffles, Ravana and Papulatus, but I have also seen close to capacity on other bosses such as Horntail and JC.

with the reduction in total channels, there is now also a reduction in the total amount of potential concurrent boss runs. As these runs are instanced from each other, there will be no notable decrease in ambient population (the stated intention of reducing ccs) as those runs would have been separated regardless.

please consider, if possible from a technical standpoint, increasing the number of boss runs that can be simultaneously run on a given cc to be more than 1, at least for popular content.

 

People should not be looking at it as an absolute difference. It’s not just 2 channels, it’s a 25% reduction in potential concurrent boss runs.

people conceptualize 2 as small and insignificant but 25% is a drastic change.

 

Counterpoint: people being forced to not play the game is usually a bad thing

HT requires people to plan ahead of time, and people being forced to cancel those plans feels terrible. Super bad for player morale and generally detrimental to the playerbase

 

Seeing as how Gaga JQ, Moon Flower JQ, and Mine are all instanced PQs (Gaga JQ requiring a party even and supporting multiple members in the same instance) that can be run by multiple groups simultaneously on the same channel, the technology is there

Hopefully staff is able to apply this to currently contested Bosses to help alleviate competition during peak hours