Light/full Party buff

[Chardrizard]

realistically no one is going that far to invite crafters/uselessppl for an insignificant buff, it is a possible scenario but it is not gonna be something that everyone does like "abandoning leves".

Is it fostering good gameplay to reward players for adding useless members to their party?

what is good gameplay? it's subjective.

sure, it might be a bad design, but it is a bad design that people actually enjoys, removing it would cause nothing but setting these people to rage mode and ensues another angry thread.

[Rentahamster]

what is good gameplay? it's subjective.

It's subjective yes, but that doesn't mean one can abandon all sense of logic in one's analysis of what it is to have good gameplay.

If someone honestly thinks that being rewarded for adding an AFK person to your party is an example of "good gameplay", then that person needs his head examined.

hmmm I see your point now, yea I have no idea in this regard tbh.

Thank you.

[Ilean]

If someone honestly thinks that being rewarded for adding an AFK person to your party is an example of "good gameplay", then that person needs his head examined.

So the mechanic can be exploited, oh noes!

Other than that you are whining about something that AFAIK, hasn't been proven to have any impact on whatever little content there is now.

[Rentahamster]

Other than that you are whining about something that AFAIK, hasn't been proven to have any impact on whatever little content there is now.

It's not whining, it's analysis. I've been careful to word my posts in a logically consistent and meaningful fashion, but it that still sounds like whining to you, then I don't know what to tell you.

Throughout the thread I have already shown it to have a detrimental impact on the area of player incentives. It is not good design to reward players for actions that would have otherwise be detrimental to themselves. Another example of this phenomenon occurring in-game would be getting benefit from failing your leves on purpose.