Quote Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1 View Post
you WILL be further punished because less people will be willing to party up to do your leves. raptor grinding parties will be the norm and leves will be something you do solo. leve parties are done for time saving measures. you remove the reason to party and you remove people willing to party.
How will balancing out the rewards between leves, or simply moving the majority of the SP reward to the completion of the leve (versus kill rewards), change things so that people won't want to party to do leves? The idea is to remove the incentive for people to fail. You should never be rewarded for failure at all, let alone a larger reward for failure over success. The rewards for succeeding should be along the lines of what people get for failing now, so I don't see how that would prevent people from doing them.

Besides, if I recall - the leve system was meant to be a means of supplemental progression for people who didn't have a lot of time to play, not as the primary method of advancement. That's a separate issue though and the current state of things is mostly a result of the lack of alternative content in the game.