Players Who Don't pull their weight.

[Kallera]

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When people ask for game systems to take into account player performance, just about all sorts of situations and abuses need to be taken into consideration. because however unlikely you may think those situations are(and a clear with ko'd party membes, even healers and tanks, isn't really that unlikely), they can result in ruined runs for players and spoiled victories for statics.

That healer can troll the system, because they are in fact participating, so whether they are punishable or not is very much in the air, and the healer can determine whether the ko'd party member can get the clear/lots or not.

Here's another "extreme example" for you. A static consisting of a DRK/WAR/BRD/BLM/MNK/DRG/AST/SCH get into a ex trial, and the game decides that the DRG isn't doing things up to snuff, so he is blocked out of the rewards. The other party members pull through and win the encounter. But the chest gives out the DRG weapon. What a fun kick in the teeth that would be on a friday evening.