Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Rinsui]

The point is just: Of those groups, only 1 was playing the game, while the others were afk.
Read. Think. Judge.
Not the other way round.
And before you say: "Oh, but those were real accounts playing!" - Gilsellers have real accounts, too.
Read. Think. Judge.
Just because you profit from a design flaw doesn't mean it's good design.

[Sun-Runner]

The point is just: Of those groups, only 1 was playing the game, while the others were afk.

Possibly true. Or they could have been at their computers chatting away in party-chat or in linkshell-chat watching the show.

Just because you profit from a design flaw doesn't mean it's good design.

It truly doesn't matter what you (or I) think as to whether it is or is not a good design. They may change it. They may not. We aren't the ones making the decision. We are allowed to voice our opinions. You've voiced yours. I've voiced mine. They may even listen to them.

I do know that a number of (if not the majority of) other for-pay MMOs have power-leveling to varying degrees. I expect that this game will retain such, of one kind or another, to one degree or another. This is a fact of it being a MMO. PL happens.