Hello guys here im coming with a good fix feedback for APQ On the 2nd Stage if someone dc's you are not able to finish the PQ. But since you are enough people it would make sense to let the leader on the Rope! My Recommendation would be adding a "/talk Amos" ingame function which will be only enabled if 5 people are left in APQ.
I had a similar suggestion written here ^ This has been done on the other big server to a great QoL for avid APQ players. I don't understand why Staff hasn't accepted a change to make Stage 2 completable with 5 people unless technical issues on the Dev side limit this from happening.
Something must be done about the current state of APQ. So few players joining, recruiting a party takes 5-10 smegas as a leader. Really hard getting a reliable party if you're guildless and don't have loads of friends... Drop rate is so bad that rngjesus is not reliable. Not to mention the amount of people is required, making sure they are not blacklisted for bad manners or apple stealing. Then we have the random DCs. They are recoverable after stage 2 but before that there is no chance. 1 DC ruins a complete run. Then having 3 runs with bad RNG, 1-2 apples in total. Also seeing how Apple prices keeps raising. APQ is getting worse. Either make it so you can continue with less than 6 people or up the apple drop rate slightly.
Talking to balloons is kind of weird to me. A wholesome part about apq is that you communicate with Amos the entire way. What about some little megaphone you can click on to shout at Amos for confirmation?