Almost every player will eventually encounter an [b]infinite loading screen[/b] while queueing into the tower.
I believe this is because the game tries to load us into an already full tower.
Today I encountered this bug a few times in a row (yes I tried loading in through the annex too), which inspired me to create this post. Here's to hoping they fix this bug after so many years.
I'm tired of players unknowningly camping tower lobbies with that annoying DJ emote forcing other players to wait in loading purgatory because for whatever reason we have to be physically in the tower to reset our vendor rank.
It'd be one thing if there were robust social features in the game, but at this point, I think we'd all appreciate [b]a solo option[/b] for tower queueing.
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Barring it being a server problem, Bungie have 2 methods of loading people into the tower, individual load and batch load. They switch between them (either manually or automatically) every so often, currently I believe they have batch loading active. With batch loading your load time is based on the [i]slowest loading player[/i] currently flying in as you are not spawned into the tower until they are finished loading. Next time you're stuck in a long load, count the number of players, the current tower cap if I'm remembering correctly is 26. If there are less than 26 then you're stuck loading because of either a connection/server issue or someone else loading in at the same time as you is loading slow.