Petition against Level Sync

[JakeRoon]

20-75 Qufim Island? LOL. Not quite true until way later after level sync was released and it only became that way because travel in FFXI was ridiculous at time to get to any other leveling spot..

^^ THIS FTW^^

Level syc was not the problem, the problem was getting ANYWHERE else wasted half of the playtime of the ppl involed which were relatively few in number as server populations plummeted.

[Jynx]

^^ THIS FTW^^

Level syc was not the problem, the problem was getting ANYWHERE else wasted half of the playtime of the ppl involed which were relatively few in number as server populations plummeted.

Yeah because Colibri camps were such a hike right?

Take my teleport to Wajohm woodlands for 100 seals, walk 20 steps....camp. People really overestimate how long it took to actually get around in FFXI, you all pretend like if I wanted to party anywhere that I should have packed a lunch for the long haul.

The only time you "Wasted time" was when someone was a complete idiot and neglected to tell anyone he didn't have the craig they were headed too, or were just generally un-prepared to party. I guess people shouldn't have to actually do stuff to play the game though...right?

Only god can tell me what terrible fate awaits a FFXIV party that no members have Anima for.

"Sorry guys gotta disband we don't have anima, walking 5 minutes outside of Ul'dah is too much stress for me I have to work in 2 hours."

[JakeRoon]

LOL exactly

[Jinko]

I'm a low level player. I don't have any job at 50 yet. I have basically solo'd my only high-ish level job to 42 on my own. There aren't any parties to be had period, at any level. A lot of that is due to the fact I am on a server that never has more than 300 people on at a time, so yeah, I think I'm making a fairly valid point. If we have a situation where we had 1000's of people playing at a time that couldn't get parties, then sure, level synch the shit out of this game. But thats not really whats causing the issues right now. Parties of ANY level require people to be in them. Why would a bunch of people that have all their jobs at level 50, which is like most of the people on my server at the moment, want to party with a group thats 26? The short answer is, they wouldn't.

Is level synching something that could be implimented later on down the road (which it is from what I have read here), you bet it is. My point was, its not exactly a huge priority right now in light of all the other things the developers have going on, and the current type of population of the game.

Well not every server is that devoid of players, Lindblum isn't that bad at peak hours and still I can't find a party.

I'll come back after Mondays patch and let you know if its still an issue, I suspect it will be, because if you had read my previous posts about the server merge I don't' think that's going to fix the issue either.

Don't expect 2.0 to make a huge difference to the existing worlds, as the majority of new players will probably go to a new world, and its already been established that existing players won't be allowed to transfer to new worlds.

[Kyri]

It's silly to fight so much over this. Level sync is a choice. A choice for a say.. lv 40 person who keeps looking for parties with no luck can decide if they want to sync down to a pt that is on it's way to fight. This being said, you don't -have- to sync down, you can wait, or start your own level 40 party if you want to, but if you -do- the option is there.
This is a option for someone to turn around and play with someone who joined the game for them, even if they have nothing left to level. This is a way to get people to stop coming in your linkshell, complaining about being lv 30 and demanding a power level (I know you all must get asked once or twice). This is a step towards getting people the levels they want, getting others back into enjoying time playing and exping when they are done leveling themselves. If you don't want to level sync, don't level sync. Make your pt or keep looking, go farm while you wait, have fun. It's really that simple. There's no need to fight with each other on this preference. you may as well be fighting about how un-cool power leveling is to how cool someone else thinks it is.

[Kyri]

(Posting as Kaetara Sagitta)

Whoever said that the ogre in Mor Dhona would be somehow "nerfed" by the party because they turned on Level Sync.. doesn't know what the heck Level Sync is or what it does and should properly educate themselves on these matters before making extravagant posts.

Secondly.. in regards to Level Sync destroying FFXI, it didn't. Before the option to Sync was released, almost every high-level party was relegated to Greater Colibri parties that cried if they didn't have two BRDs. Yeah.. I remember days of partying there getting chain 200's for XP and Merit Points. Also, Level Sync pales in comparison to long-running Abyssea parties. When you can get into a party for a few hours and by the end of it you're making 100k+ XP/Hr, what Level Sync party anywhere can compare to that?

For the person who was implying that players should, paraphrasing, "not level everything to 50 because people need to think of the future"... what planet are you from? Most of the "elite" players like to have the best possible gear available for the job they play, and when SE released the achievement system that featured a Paragon's Crown reward for attaining level 50 with all DoW/M jobs.. how in your right mind can you tell people that they were somehow "wrong" for wanting to get it? How can you blame people who wanted to get to 50 with everything just because they are "achievement hunters"?

The simple fact is that there isn't a lot of content in FFXIV. SE releases content and it is beaten within a few days, if not hours, and then people wait for the next patch.. if they aren't grinding out the content 500-1000 times repetitively trying to attain rare gear. Right now, do you see much else in FFXIV going on that isn't Cutter's Cry or Aurum Vale groups? Nothing is really going to change in that aspect until they release a patch that has SO much to do that players literally can't get it all complete in the month or two needed for SE to release another patch.. and then THAT patch needs to have MORE content.

For the moment, XIV is basically a bunch (if relatively small population) of players constantly doing the same thing over and over and over and over.

More on-topic, with the way things are at the moment in FFXIV, it isn't easy to draw in new players. Likely, we won't see an explosion of new subscriptions until 2.0 is released. What new players do come to FFXIV are placed into a world where only people who have been very dedicated to giving this game a chance remain, and most of those people have had to deal with the lack of challenging or detailed content by leveling their jobs, just to give them something to do. Therefore, most of the playerbase is sitting at level 50 and there aren't a lot of partying options for new players.

Level Sync would at least remedy that. Higher level players could party with lower-level players and take a break from the redundancy of running through the same dungeon over and over.

Until some major expansion along the lines of, say, Chains of Promathia for XI, is released.. wherein players can spend MONTHS trying to complete the storyline.. there isn't much to do except repetitive grind and leveling jobs. Don't blame people for being level 50 because leveling is one of the only things to do in this game.

[Davorok]

ALSO: if they added a level cap to Instanced raids, you could party, level up, have fun with your lower level friends.[/B]~ COMPROMISE~

I like your idea but with one change. . Just make Level Synch Instance only. They wouldn't have to Cap the Instances (people could still do speed runs) but just give the Party Leader the option to Synch Levels when they enter the Instance.

[JackDaniels]

Yeah because Colibri camps were such a hike right?

Take my teleport to Wajohm woodlands for 100 seals, walk 20 steps....camp. People really overestimate how long it took to actually get around in FFXI, you all pretend like if I wanted to party anywhere that I should have packed a lunch for the long haul.

The only time you "Wasted time" was when someone was a complete idiot and neglected to tell anyone he didn't have the craig they were headed too, or were just generally un-prepared to party. I guess people shouldn't have to actually do stuff to play the game though...right?

Only god can tell me what terrible fate awaits a FFXIV party that no members have Anima for.

"Sorry guys gotta disband we don't have anima, walking 5 minutes outside of Ul'dah is too much stress for me I have to work in 2 hours."

So what youre saying is that you would have no issues travelling 45 minutes to cape terrigan for partying?

[Peptaru]

45 minutes to teriggan? YOU'RE DOIN IT WRONG! I don't think it took 45 minutes the first time i walked from bastok > altep > rabao > teriggan. lol

[Mychael]

45 minutes to teriggan? YOU'RE DOIN IT WRONG! I don't think it took 45 minutes the first time i walked from bastok > altep > rabao > teriggan. lol

^^^This.

Wait--I got it... Jack, you were that guy who didn't have any crags, weren't you. ._.''