Anyone who’s participated in fractals since HoT landed has experienced this bug: Upon starting the fractal, one or two players may be booted back to Lion’s Arch from the lobby instead of joining the fractal, and rejoining greets them with “The world you are trying to join is full” as an error message. “Fixes” to get back in usually involved dropping party, relogging or changing zones multiple times.
I’ve found one way to reproduce this bug consistently:
1. Enter the lobby with a less than full party (tested with 3/5 and 4/5 parties)
2. Initiate the ready-check or travel-vote (whatever you want to call it) but don’t complete it.
3. Have the remaining party members join the party and enter the lobby. This usually happens when an LFG listing fills the party up.
4. Finish the travel-vote. The new party member(s) that joined will not be part of the vote since they joined after the game did the count for “players in the instance.”
5. The player(s) that joined late will be booted back to Lion’s Arch and get a “The world you are trying to join is full” error message.
6. If players join after the travel-vote, but do not enter the lobby (stay in Lion’s Arch), then enter once the fractal is loaded, they don’t encounter the bug.
100% reproduction the six times we tested it. I would expect the instance size for fractals to be fixed at 5 and for players to be able to join at any point without error. Seems like there’s a bug with allocating the size of the instance based upon something in the lobby, be it the vote numbers, number of players or something else. We certainly weren’t exhaustive with our tests, so there may be other issues, but hopefully this helps work towards a fix for this disruptive bug.
STEPS TO AVOID THE BUG:
- If you start a fractal, don’t initiate the ready vote until you’re either full, or sure that there won’t be any new party members for half a minute (could take yourself off of the LFG temporarily).
- If you join a fractal, ask the party if they have started the vote. If they haven’t, enter the lobby with them. If they have, wait for them to enter the fractal before joining.