I am writing this to express my frustration I have towards Destiny right now. Today I tried to run the 35 Prison Of Elders. It never really interested me before and seemed like a waste of time, that was until Bungie listed it as one of their Year One Moments of Triumph. I've tried many times, posting on the forums multiple times just trying to get a team together. Hours later, I was lucky enough to get into a 35 PoE with two other people. We made it to round three, and due to an unknown complication, one of our players had to leave. We again, went to the forums and found another player. The new player helped us get to round six, and we attempted to defeat Skolas. We tried 3 times before Destiny decided to time me out of the game, and then the game crashed. The other player from the forums got tired of us and left, leaving my friend in the PoE on round six all alone. I tried multiple times to join the game and it kept telling me that he was about to finish the activity, and to try again soon. My friend continously waited in the airlock for me, and I couldn't join. Eventually, Destiny timed him out and we both lost all the progress we made in the 35 PoE. I'm a little upset, and a little angered that we were playing this activity for an hour and a bit with no reward, and ultimately being timed out by Destiny. Hoping Bungie implements a checkpoint system in the PoE one day, because I am furious.
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It's designed that way so people can't join at the very end of the fight or something. In order to get people into your game on the final round, you have to go into the room and wipe. Right after you wipe the people who have to join press join game. PoE does not need checkpoints.