Guildleves: Why do they work the way they do and will it ever change?

[Felis]

I always thought that the cap is just there as a back up plan should the game ever go free to play.
It's exactly the kind of wait-to-play tactics f2p games use and as such has no use in any other kind of a game.

You don't wait-to-play if you run out of leves. You just do other content until next day.

At the beginning of 1.0 it was 8 battle/gatherer leves and 8 crafting leves each 36 hours with no build up. You missed a 36 hour window? You can't redo the missed leves. 8 leves and not more.

Then the leve allowances, how we know it in ARR, came after 1 year ingame. 4 leves each 12 hours (now 3 leves each 12 hours) that build up until 99 (now 100), no seperate leve allowances for crafters.

I would like to see guildleves become more fleshed out in the future, at the very least for battle classes. It would be a great way to create more controlled encounters in the open worlds (mobs are locked to the group doing the leve).

Stuff like one-off leves that you have to find or buy.. Guildleve chains that unlock one after the other. A combination of the two. Raid bosses as guildleves...

There are so many possibilities to peruse the open world with this feature, while still having a controlled environment.

This was already in 1.0 ingame as faction leves. For some reason it got abandoned for ARR.