@Peregrine If it's any consolation for you, my friend and I did try to come up with an easy way that we could keep our all leves every reset so we could just save time and work together. We started to 'cancel' our leves a long time before other people did, but not only as a means to get ahead. It's just more fun when we are allowed to choose which leves we want to do together and not be forced by the randomness of what the leve counter has. The only thing that influenced us from others is some of the leves to start keeping due to better sp rewards.

We don't make alts to come with us just to link like several others do. We don't beg for full parties in order to run a leve twice. It's not necessarily 'bad' that they do this either, even if it's not something I like. It's legal. It's allowed in the game, whether it's widely accepted or not. My friend and I offer to do leves with people from our LS and they know which leves we usually do, then we do them together. That is why I do leves like this.

I bet it's hard for you to find people to do leves with since you typically will always have different kinds of leves. =(