[dev1026] Please reconsider level sync "Then allowing power leveling"

[Nero]

Level sync was not perfect in FFXI but that was because the game was not designed for it and it came very late into the life cycle of the game. Here they have an opportunity to do it correctly and make sure content is balanced for it.

NO MMO out there is balanced enough for level sync. Level sync will always make ppl lazy and they will stay in easy Areas till they hit the Cap. There is nothing you can do against it if you can Levelsync to w/e Rank. With PL's you have to go on your own at one Point.. I never had a PL after L40ish, so it was just speeding up the lower Levels, nothing more. Afterwards you had to organize the Group, find a good Spot to get good SP, but the People actually had to focus and what they do.

Levelsync as reason for "so i can play with my friends" is the most cheap excuse ever. if you want to play with your friends.. wait till he reaches your level. i always do that and dont mind waiting, neither do my friends.

[AlexiaKidd]

NO MMO out there is balanced enough for level sync. Level sync will always make ppl lazy and they will stay in easy Areas till they hit the Cap. There is nothing you can do against it if you can Levelsync to w/e Rank. With PL's you have to go on your own at one Point.. I never had a PL after L40ish, so it was just speeding up the lower Levels, nothing more. Afterwards you had to organize the Group, find a good Spot to get good SP, but the People actually had to focus and what they do.

Levelsync as reason for "so i can play with my friends" is the most cheap excuse ever. if you want to play with your friends.. wait till he reaches your level. i always do that and dont mind waiting, neither do my friends.

Well as my lowest class is currently R36 if a friend was starting tomorrow then I would be waiting while so no it's not a cheap excuse. You say it can't be balance, how do you know? Couldn't they make it so at R20 the max SP you can get from mobs is 200 a kill then at R40 it is 400 a kill then adjust SP curves in line with this. Doing that would mean if you were R40 and synced to R20 then you would probably be getting half the SP an hour you could get as opposed to staying at your own rank and that's just off the top of my head. I am sure SE could think of something better or at least I would hope so as that's what they are getting paid to do.

[Nero]

Well as my lowest class is currently R36 if a friend was starting tomorrow then I would be waiting while so no it's not a cheap excuse.

36 can be reached in a couple Days.

You say it can't be balance, how do you know? Couldn't they make it so at R20 the max SP you can get from mobs is 200 a kill then at R40 it is 400 a kill then adjust SP curves in line with this.

Dont get me wrong, but that doesnt make sense at all. IF a group Levelsync to.. lets say R20, and then Switch that person out with another Mule to stay at that place, how would the lowered SP for R40 matter, if a Group of R45 Levelsyncs to a R20ish Mule to stay in the same Area over and over? That is what people did in FFXI, to stay in lowlevel Areas. And also the whole Revamp of the Areas and Zone would not matter and SE could stop that and put place just 1 Spot somewhere, where everyone can Rankup straight to 50, without knowing shit, slapping the same Mob for 50 Ranks.

The Point is, a Person would not grow with his Charakter if he stay in one Area for 50 Ranks. He will have Abilities he cant use due Levelsync, he wont even know them and at r50 he will be like "wtf.. how do i do this? how is this working?". The SP itself is not the Problem.