Ready-up system for monoliths or change monolith instancing/loading behavior

Current Behavior

When a party of players opens a monolith instance, all party members hit a loading screen which halts their current activity (forging an item, interacting with the stash, interacting with the settings menu overlay, etc.)

Desired Behavior/Suggestion

When a party of players opens a monolith instance, no loading screen would halt players’ current activity as listed above. This could be accomplished in several ways including:

  • Making changes necessary to prevent the loading screen entirely (understandably has a potential to be a large lift and therefore unlikely to be implemented).
  • Making changes necessary to save the player’s interface state prior to instance load and restoring it to their screen after the instance has loaded.
  • Implement a ready-up system where players must mark themselves as ready before a monolith instance can be opened for the party. This could potentially be a configurable option in Social (H) > Party.

Reasoning

It can be aggravating to lose your progress/be interrupted when a player is in the middle of game activities such as:

  • Managing inventory in the Stash
  • Modifying an item in the Forge
  • Configuring game settings
  • Managing social/party settings
  • Shopping at a vendor
  • Collecting rewards following a completed monolith instance
  • Reporting a bug
  • Etc.
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