Quote Originally Posted by Vackashken View Post
It does. No amount of semantics or technicalities changes that. The reward is you get the same best SP giving leves in a row guaranteed. The gil is meaningless because you don't fail every single leve. You make plenty off the others. The faction points are equally as meaningless since you can simply buy the items if you even want to bother to with how crappy they are.

Semantics doesn't change it one bit.
ok let me ask something. this is not meant to be a flame or an argument.

player a runes dunes and fails. he gets the sp from every mob he kills, but leaves the last mob so he misses that sp. he abandons the leve and the leve ends. by linking the payer loses a percentage of sp per kill. the overall goes up, but with 4 people they lose over 1 full mob worth of sp over doing it 4 times.

player b runes the leve and completes. he gets the sp from every mob he kills. he kills all mobs and completes the leve. after completing he gets gil, guild rewards, items, and faction credits.

if both player a and player b runs the same leve and both kill the same mobs then the rewards for finishing the leve are the stuff you get at the end. they both got the sp off of each mob they killed. how is one any different than the other as far as sp goes? it's determined that the overall sp does drop by linking over running it 4 times. they were already punished by giving up 120%-160% of the sp for one kill by max links and the rewards that are given at the end.