Again this misunderstands the system.
No, you just aren't seeing how it will be used in the wild...
This is purposeful to avoid making it easy for people to abuse it.
You can't simultaneously help a wide population and also hide the details. These are conflicting objectives. This notion of hoarding details is a losing proposition.
Disney probably thinks that far fewer than 1 out of 100 people will use this. I tend to think Disney is correct. This is going to be a "use it in case of an emergency" situation for people for whom emergencies are unpredictable.
This is someone's hope - and someone who is ignoring you just took a HUGE POPULATION and pulled the rug out from under them. This isn't some hidden gem people will have to discover... It's going to be iterated by Disney hundreds of times a day to people and also over every Disney website.
If there is an advantage to using it - people will.
I think Disney believes that the number of those true emergencies requiring someone to exit a standby line is going to be pretty low. We'll see, but I bet they are correct.
Live look in at the policy writer's room...
We don't need to get back into the "DAS user" versus "riding party" debate, but under either analysis the number of actual DAS users (the ones with the disability) is not 30 percent, it's been posted here by an insider that it's somewhere around 8 percent.
It is significant - because the # of people waiting is not just the DAS holder, but the rest of the party. Oh and where is the limit on your party size for RTQ? Oh.. not covered is that? So one mule can wait for how many people?
One of the major reasons the LL's are currently backing up is because of the unpredictability of DAS users return times. Eliminating a majority of these users should fix the LL backup problem (unless a ride goes down).
Funny - didn't I address that? Yes.. I did.
Do you think Disney would ever let LL lanes get down to walk on all the time? What that situation would signal is in fact there is free capacity they should be offering to LL and G+. As long as there is a paid option using the LL - there is a feedback loop to encourage that LL to never be empty.
And LL return lines being long is an every day occurance - not just limited to shutdowns. Disney won't be sacrificing LL or G+ sales to make RTQ work better.
Again, I think Disney thinks this is probably goign to be few and far between enough such that you likely won't have more than a couple people waiting here at any given point. I think Disney is right, but time will tell!
All the math screams otherwise. And the better the system works, and the longer the lines are, the more reason for people to use. Literally all the incentives point to the system breaking down - not improving. That's why it's doomed.
RTQ won't help the "send one ahead" cheaters because they'll necessarily have to have gotten in line in the first place. There might still be some abuse, but it's a effort/reward thing. It's a lot of effort for an extremely small amount of reward.
A lot of effort? Get in line, then leave, come back 60-75mins later... Why is this hard? You don't think people would be enticed by the opportunity to get out of line?
Ok? This is the same angst that will always exist when you have a two-tiered line system, including with the current DAS.
I was responding to the comments that basically tried to deny this kind of conflict existed - it did, and will even be worse than the current situation because of the physical constraints they are trying to operate in.
Nobody should be ducking out of the standby line unless you are leaving because you have an emergency and need to use RTQ. This sort of thing happens with some frequency right now, so it's not like this is some huge uknown that disney has no experience with. People can leave a line if they have to, at worst by backtracking.
Again, you see this once or maybe a few times a day.. no big deal. Now imagine a significant portion of the population are doing it.. Do you not see how this differs?
You don't need to move between queues, i think you are misunderstanding how this will work.
So you think someone is going to backtrack through the entire standby queue every time they need to do this? Yeah, good luck with that.
Again, this statement seems to be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how this system works. There's no "ducking between the queues". You exit the queue, and after speaking to a CM will be allowed to re-enter the LL queue to meet your party. No cutting back and forth.
So the person who 'really needs' this as a sense of urgency... is going to be forced to move through a crowded queue, the entire length of the queue to exit. How long do you think that would take? How do you see that working for someone who maybe less agile or fraile? Or maybe even struggling with a physical issue that is WHY they are leaving the queue in the first place? And you don't see a problem with that? Not even if it's the simple 8% of people you mentioned?
All your points boil down to the exact reasons I'm saying it's doomed. You're relying on the fact only a small portion of people would use it.. while concurrently believing it will benefit those who use it... while not limiting who can use it.
These ideas can not co-exist and survive.