Quote Originally Posted by JayvirDeforte View Post
And why can't the local leves be the same way then?
Local leves are the same way. Lots of players decide not to run for 45 minutes to 3 different camps -- or use 16 anima -- to turn their leves in to the appropriate NPC. So they just make all the requested goods to get all the SP possible, and then don't turn them in. When the leves reset, they pick up an entirely new set of local leves without completing their old ones. Again, they don't get the gil or guild points, but they get the SP.

Maybe that's not "heroic" crafting, but probably the enduring lesson of MMOs is that players will do anything to get themselves the most XP in the least amount of time possible.

Of course, Yoshi-P's latest letter discusses "balancing" guild leve rewards. So it's possible that the whole "failing leves" issue will be resolved by making all leves give the same amount of SP. We'll have to wait and see what they decide, though.