Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Rhomagus]

There is anecdotal evidence that the current power-leveling mechanism for gaining XP is detrimental to the Light & Full Party mechanisms for gaining XP. Producer/Director Yoshida can achieve the same effect that he wants, without the negative effect to Light & Full parties, by simply implementing a Level Sync system.

As long as gaining XP via power-leveling remains the most time effective means of gaining XP, systems like Light Party bonus, Full Party Bonus, even the party search system ... are pointless.

My question to Producer/Director Yoshida is, "Why build a system of balanced XP-gaining mechanisms, then allow another mechanism to completely bypass that same system?"

Personally, it just doesn't make sense to me.

I'm actually happy this thread is still going. The last attempted fix for PLing was highly deficient.

We need a system that only gives you XP if you directly engage in battle in some way.

I very much agree with Sorel and Kiote here. I understand the current claiming system but it bypasses the entire balance of character progression as well. I've made suggestions to how the current claiming system could remain as I do like the claiming system. I just don't like how the rewards can be exploited.

I also prefer that old threads be necrobumped rather than new threads be made. As the game changes old concepts deserve to be looked at again since the context they can be used in has changed and is worthy of discussion.

A surefire way to get this thread nuked would be to have a group of posters strategically derail the topic while prodding posters into making personal attacks. As long as there are enough people willing to have a civilized discussion on the topic at hand then detractors will just get censored from the thread rather than it being nuked outright.

Also, blatant non constructive necrobumping will get it nuked as well. If you're going to necrobump a thread make sure that the response is thorough enough to be considered legitimate.