Can't join Fractals party because they're in a different LA map instance, and the option to join theirs does not show up for any of us!

[yozora.1652]

My gf and I were in one instance of Lion's Arch wanting to do T1 fractals, so we listed our party on LFG. 3 others joined, but none of us could join together. When one person was in the fractals of the mists, several others trying to enter got a supposed "network error" (yeah... it's all 5 of our networks, lol). We all tried logging out, switching characters, exiting the game, but it was still the same. Their dots appeared faded as though they were not on the same instance as my gf and I, but when right clicking on their icon, there was absolutely no "Join in Lion's Arch" option available. The other 3 tried the same and were unable to come to ours. My girlfriend and I could get into the mists, but the other 3 got the ""network"" error message, and it was the exact same reversed. I even tried turning our party into a squad to see if that would work, and it did not. This is a massive issue as it prevents so many types of gameplay. We need parties for fractals and dungeons, we need squads to change our instance to a populated one when doing meta events. I would attach two screenshots of the chaos ensuring, but this format does not allow me to attach image files, and when I tried uploading an image with a link to attach this way, your text box just turned red with absolutely no explanation of why it wasn't accepted. Seems this in-game bug isn't the only thing that needs to be fixed.

[Schimmi.6872]

Were all people in the group from the same region? Afaik sometimes when the login-servers don't work like they should, lfg-entries can be shown in the wrong region too, which would explain this problem.

[yozora.1652]

Huh, that could be one explanation. Obviously my gf and I play on the same region server, but it didn't occur to me to ask the others. Haven't tried to get into another fractals group since, but meta squads later in the day worked fine for me.

Edited May 1, 2021 by yozora.1652