Hey, I think there seems to be a misunderstanding here, so let me try to clear some of it up.
I think it would be a better solution to have different commands for game and for class, so you can't make any mistakes.
I can personally confidently say that 99% of the 'issues' that has occurred with players using /leave, has come from players wanting to leave the queue instead of the class. Players wait hours for classes, whereas minigames are often a message in /ch ga away. If there's 100 people who uses /leave in a class, 99 of them are using it to leave the queue, where that 1 other person is meaning to leave the class to join the minigame.
This suggestion is proposing a solution to the following issue: "/leave makes you leave class, instead of the minigame queue". Okay, if we make /leave remove you from the queue instead of the class, would that not solve this issue? Seems like it would?
We're changing it to work like that, but I do think changing it to recommend using /exit would cause less confusion, so I've gone ahead and changed that. You should expect this to be live in a few days (maybe more, depends on a lot of things).
I do wanna comment on some things said:
For me it seems like players have to explain you everything and telling you exact ideas and solutions for problems because you can't really do it on your own, but I believe you are really supposed to do it.
At the end of the day, the Potterworld staff & development team are volunteers. This means none of us are doing this professionally, or know how to do things the right way. We try as we go, and see what works and what doesn't work. A comment like this is really uncalled for, and is downright false. We'd love to hear what solutions you think is best for a specific issue, but at the end of the day, we look at the bigger picture and we know *a lot* more about what goes on than you - which means the decision we make might not be the solution you proposed. Did you know that the message that says 'You can leave the queue by typing /leave' was only added a few months ago? Players have been using /leave for *years*, changing this message would not do much. This has been an issue for years. Changing
how it works (by prioritizing the queue instead of the class) would solve most issues, changing the message wouldn't.
2) I hope that members of the Poltergeist team are creative and have their own ideas. Moreover, I believe you need to be creative and responsible enough to provide solutions for any problems, fortunately players provide that anyways...
I can assure you that the Poltergeist team are creative and have their own ideas. You haven't seen the work they do behind the scenes, but yeah. At the end of the day, the Poltergeist team is not actually the department making the decisions. This decision was not made by them, it was made by the Development team.
Poltergeists simply leave their opinion, and propose alternative solutions if they can think of some and then bring it up to the relevant department. In this case, the relevant department was development, and all developers (including myself) agreed that changing the behavior was the best solution because a lot of players still use /leave, and have been for years. Changing a message slightly is not going to change this behavior that players have gotten used to for years (one of the comments admit that they've made the same mistake over and over, which is a prime example).
Ash, what's your opinion?
This reminds me of myself when I was younger - I'd ask my mom for something and she'd say no, then I'd ask my dad for the same thing in hopes of getting a different answer. That might have worked in my house, but that's not really how it works here
Like I said above, this was a decision made by the development team, and if you ask any developer, you're going to get the same response. It was a decision made collectively.
Phew, that was a lot of text, but I hope it clears up everything. TLDR: Don't be so quick to assume and yell at the Poltergeist team, I've changed the message, and we're still going to change the behavior because changing the message isn't going to do nearly enough, but it is going to help so yeah.