Re-open closed instances.
antrobot
The 'Close Instance' feature is nice, but once an instance is closed, there is currently no way to change that. I propose that their when an instance is closed, the close option be replaced with a reopen option, which will remove the closed status from the instance.
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[1441] Closed instance allows the instance owner to unlock the instance once I have locked it.
mochamofu｜もちゃもふ
I would like the instance owner to be able to unlock the instance once it has been locked. For example, in a game world, if I want to play with a specific number of people and I've locked the room after 10 people have gathered, but during the game some players leave and I want to recruit new members to make it 10 again, or if I want to recruit new participants in the same instance later, I strongly feel the need for this feature.
Deantwo
I would argue that the "Close Instance" feature wasn't designed to be a "make my instance private so no one else can join". It is intended to be used for when an instance is closing because the management is leaving or the event is over and the population can slowly wind down until the instance is fully empty.
If you want to be able to control when people can join the instance, it sounds more like you want to change the type of an instance at will, so I would suggest you take a look at this instead: ability-to-upgradedowngrade-instance-types
~Zuelatak~
As someone who uses a Custom Instance ID for their weekly event I found it extremely disappointing that the "Close Instance" button not only prevented new people from joining for that event like I wanted, but it prevented people from joining any future event.
Even a month later using the Instance Link and clicking "Invite Me" does nothing. Why? Why can't the ID be recycled after like 24hrs, a week, or even a month. Why is it just dead for the rest of time.
I had to go through every location where I advertised our weekly event and change the link to be every so slightly different so it worked again, and I for sure am not going to do that every week if I were to keep using the "Close Instance" feature.
This issue has made the feature completely useless for me. I hope this gets changed soon, because it would make the feature EXTREMELY useful when it does.
Deantwo
~Zuelatak~: I have heard of similar issues in the past, about instance IDs not being recycled in the way that we expect. But this sounds more like a critical bug that you should be making a dedicated bug report for, rather than attach it to an unrelated feature request like this.
Deantwo
This was quickly mentioned in the developer update post last night.
Hintswen
I don't understand why the instance link cannot seemingly be reused ever once closed. A group I'm in closed an instance and more than a week later we cannot use the same instance link still? These should start working again once no one is left in the instance or after some timeout eg. 24 hours after the instance was closed. This would allow groups to use the same instance link to advertise their event on a regular schedule but still be able to close the instance once the event is open.