diff --git a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AssignmentLevelSurtQueueAssignmentPolicy.java b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AssignmentLevelSurtQueueAssignmentPolicy.java
index d187bfc68..758751845 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AssignmentLevelSurtQueueAssignmentPolicy.java
+++ b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AssignmentLevelSurtQueueAssignmentPolicy.java
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
  */
 package org.archive.crawler.frontier;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.archive.modules.CrawlURI;
+import org.archive.net.UURI;
 import org.archive.net.PublicSuffixes;
 
 /**
@@ -32,9 +34,34 @@ public class AssignmentLevelSurtQueueAssignmentPolicy extends
     private static final long serialVersionUID = -1533545293624791702L;
 
     @Override
-    public String getClassKey(CrawlURI cauri) {
-        String candidate =  super.getClassKey(cauri);
-        candidate = PublicSuffixes.reduceSurtToAssignmentLevel(candidate); 
+    public String getClassKey(CrawlURI curi) {
+        if(getDeferToPrevious() && !StringUtils.isEmpty(curi.getClassKey())) {
+	    return curi.getClassKey();
+	}
+
+	UURI basis = curi.getPolicyBasisUURI();
+	String candidate =  super.getClassKey(curi);
+        candidate = PublicSuffixes.reduceSurtToAssignmentLevel(candidate);
+
+	if(!StringUtils.isEmpty(getForceQueueAssignment())) {
+	    candidate = getForceQueueAssignment();
+	}
+
+	// all whois urls in the same queue
+	if (curi.getUURI().getScheme().equals("whois")) {
+	    return "whois...";
+	}
+
+	if(StringUtils.isEmpty(candidate)) {
+	    return DEFAULT_CLASS_KEY;
+	}
+	if(getParallelQueues()>1) {
+	    int subqueue = getSubqueue(basis,getParallelQueues());
+	    if (subqueue>0) {
+		candidate += "+"+subqueue;
+	    }
+	}
+
         return candidate; 
     }
 
diff --git a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/URIAuthorityBasedQueueAssignmentPolicy.java b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/URIAuthorityBasedQueueAssignmentPolicy.java
index 8001540db..3212c4f07 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/URIAuthorityBasedQueueAssignmentPolicy.java
+++ b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/URIAuthorityBasedQueueAssignmentPolicy.java
@@ -90,9 +90,12 @@ public String getClassKey(CrawlURI curi) {
         if(getDeferToPrevious() && !StringUtils.isEmpty(curi.getClassKey())) {
             return curi.getClassKey();
         }
+
+        UURI basis = curi.getPolicyBasisUURI();
+        String candidate = getCoreKey(basis);
         
         if(!StringUtils.isEmpty(getForceQueueAssignment())) {
-            return getForceQueueAssignment(); 
+            candidate = getForceQueueAssignment();
         }
         
         // all whois urls in the same queue
@@ -100,9 +103,6 @@ public String getClassKey(CrawlURI curi) {
             return "whois...";
         }
         
-        UURI basis = curi.getPolicyBasisUURI();
-        String candidate = getCoreKey(basis); 
-        
         if(StringUtils.isEmpty(candidate)) {
             return DEFAULT_CLASS_KEY;
         }
diff --git a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/prefetch/QuotaEnforcer.java b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/prefetch/QuotaEnforcer.java
index d76302271..171bb5d0a 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/prefetch/QuotaEnforcer.java
+++ b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/prefetch/QuotaEnforcer.java
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ public void setGroupMaxNovelUrls(long max) {
      * being force-retired (if the Frontier supports this). Note that if your
      * queues combine URIs that are different with regard to the quota category,
      * the retirement may hold back URIs not in the same quota category. Default
-     * is false.
+     * is true.
      */
     {
         setForceRetire(true);