Confirmation of Uncapped Raids. Confirmation of a terrible decision.

[Lerris]

im not the one who says people wont use it(go look at some of the replies to my posts, its the pro cap people who say a slider wont work and people have to be forced into the challenge or it wont be any)


also, my biggest arguement for a slider, and not a cap, is that a slider is ALREADY CODED into the game and will take less work to implement into this then a level capping feature(which isnt in the game at all yet)

This is a key point. When level capped content in CoP was introduced, there were already capped BCNMs in the game... they knew how to keep characters under cap. There was also no possibility of changing jobs in the middle of the fight, so the cap only needed to be applied and calculated upon entering a capped zone. Applying a cap is a little more complicated in FFXIV since we can change classes freely ( and I'm guessing they don't want to disable this ability ) and the level cap would have to be checked every time we did this.

On the other hand, a one-time difficulty selection upon entering is very manageable, as it is already in the game for levequests.

My preferred approach though, is to include high-level passages and rooms. Just because the main content is geared for 25-30 doesn't mean there can't be deeper, more dangerous areas that provide a greater challenge and greater rewards.

[Xenor]

Applying a cap is a little more complicated in FFXIV since we can change classes freely ( and I'm guessing they don't want to disable this ability ) and the level cap would have to be checked every time we did this..

No it's not more complicated. It's a simple logic check when the player sends the request to the server to change quest. IF CLASS > 30 DENY ELSE CHANGE CLASS. How hard can it be to program that? They wouldn't be disabling the ability to change class, they'd be disabling the ability to use an over-ranked class. You'd still be able to change class to one that meets the requirement.

[Physic]

No it's not more complicated. It's a simple logic check when the player sends the request to the server to change quest. IF CLASS > 30 DENY ELSE CHANGE CLASS. How hard can it be to program that? They wouldn't be disabling the ability to change class, they'd be disabling the ability to use an over-ranked class. You'd still be able to change class to one that meets the requirement.

most people do not mean a level cap as in you cannot enter this dunegon, they mean a level cap as in, it adjusts your level for the duration of the raid.
they already have gear scaling in effect, i dont think it would be that hard, but who knows.