Quote Originally Posted by 'Bettysue',index.php?page=Thread&postID=207156#pos t207156
So say you have 1 toon inside for 1 hour 2 min (enough to make sure he is over the limit) and the other toon dies twice and spends 52min inside and 10min outside in the hour. The second toon will get the message about too many instances in an hour the first will be fine to continue with another instance.
This is an interesting idea, but can't be true because if it were after you reset 5 times and waited outside your time would never count up to 1hr.

I always recorded the times I entered an instance and a new one was available exactly 1 hour from that time regardless of if I was inside or out.

Also I have done that simple test of dying and yes it does subtract from the instance limit. I just tried it after being in 4 instances in the last few minutes. After 1 died and came back I left and reset. Everyone else made it in, but the one who died got the too many instances message and wasn't able to get into another for 45mins(1hr from the first)