Let's have a round of applause for bringing grind parties front and center in FFXIV

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In response to your post Xianghua Shizuka. I think that competition is healthy and promotes a stronger community. The good NM's that offer high reward will always be camped at least moderatly, and should be. There would still be alternatives to acheive SP as there are now. Also, a battle does not have to be rnk 50 to be tough/challenging/fun.

As, for the bots .... I guess if there is an award waiting to be claimed somewhere in the game ppl are gonna create bots to attain it. Does that mean that there should not be awards worthy of persuing?

What you're suggesting is to basically make certain rare NMs "big buckets-o-SP".

Given that people these days seem single-mindedly obsessed with "getting as much sp as possible" - even if it's at the expense of other aspects of character progression (such as how they'd willingly neglect leveling their weapon skills in XI if it meant getting faster xp on their jobs) - I have a feeling it would *not* turn out well. It seems like no matter what kind of rewards a developer puts in their game to reward a player for their time and effort, people absolutely lose their minds when it comes to sp/xp gain.

I don't know if you played XI or not, but the competition over rare NMs led to a lot of serious imbalance between players who used bots to get claim every time, versus those who tried to claim them legitimately. For a time (prior to SE patching it out) if someone claimed the mob legitimately, their competition (being sore losers at having lost the claim) would try to MPK the player so they'd lose the claim, or try to steal it away from them somehow.

It didn't lead to 'friendly competition'. It led to a lot of cheating, hacking, harassment and hard feelings.

Eventually, SE had to change the nature of the world drops to no-sell/no-trade just to alleviate all the issues.

I think NMs should give an amount of sp proportionate to their level and, with perhaps a *small* boost for the fact that they're a rare creature and tougher than others of their type. There's also the chance for nice drops. That's enough reward. I don't think it would be wise turning them into buckets-o-sp for people to try "farming".