Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[darkstarpoet1]

ya know reading yoshi's post about they didn't forsee the extent makes me wonder........ did they test this new system at all? how is it that they put in a new system and everyone and their brother tried power leveling as soon as it came out, but none of the dev team was able to think this far in advance. it just seemed that there was no foresight nor actual testing done previous to it going live.

[MattyWS]

ya know reading yoshi's post about they didn't forsee the extent makes me wonder........ did they test this new system at all? how is it that they put in a new system and everyone and their brother tried power leveling as soon as it came out, but none of the dev team was able to think this far in advance. it just seemed that there was no foresight nor actual testing done previous to it going live.

I dunno maybe cause every arse on these forums are rushing them so much they thought they'd have to release a patch without 'waste time' on testing?

You guys complain if they are a bit slow to release a patch, then complain when they release it and it has a few bugs. >.>

[darkstarpoet1]

I dunno maybe cause every arse on these forums are rushing them so much they thought they'd have to release a patch without 'waste time' on testing?

You guys complain if they are a bit slow to release a patch, then complain when they release it and it has a few bugs. >.>

don't even start with you guys anything. i have been against this since day one which is why i catch so many rude responses in general.

i complained about the nerfing of the nm's before the new battle system was put in that made them super easy.

i complained about the removal of the old battle system and replacing it with a less finished system.

i complained about the partial crafting changes done now and the rest completed at a later point.

the problem is they put in partial changes. i would much rather them take the time to actually get the patch corrected. i don't like removal of something to put in the bare bones of another.

i have also fully supported a test server for people to be able to test the changes. if a test server was put in place previous to this patch this would be the first thing people noticed along with the fleece farming issue.

[neorei]

ya know reading yoshi's post about they didn't forsee the extent makes me wonder........ did they test this new system at all? how is it that they put in a new system and everyone and their brother tried power leveling as soon as it came out, but none of the dev team was able to think this far in advance. it just seemed that there was no foresight nor actual testing done previous to it going live.

we are the test server.

[Joeking]

ya know reading yoshi's post about they didn't forsee the extent makes me wonder........ did they test this new system at all? how is it that they put in a new system and everyone and their brother tried power leveling as soon as it came out, but none of the dev team was able to think this far in advance. it just seemed that there was no foresight nor actual testing done previous to it going live.

Perhaps SE was naive and had faith in its community to not exploit such things.

[Reika]

ya know reading yoshi's post about they didn't forsee the extent makes me wonder........ did they test this new system at all? how is it that they put in a new system and everyone and their brother tried power leveling as soon as it came out, but none of the dev team was able to think this far in advance. it just seemed that there was no foresight nor actual testing done previous to it going live.

As I say for every patch after playing myself, there's no way they tested it all, or else they probably would have found it and changed it before WE got to it. OR perhaps it was their intent on making PL'ing that easy, cept too many people complained about it.

Or... Perhaps we're really the ones doing the testing >.>?!

[Frein]

As I say for every patch after playing myself, there's no way they tested it all, or else they probably would have found it and changed it before WE got to it. OR perhaps it was their intent on making PL'ing that easy, cept too many people complained about it.

Well, we know they're going break-neck speed and probably cut every corner they can, however, I think in this case the devs simply failed (again) to anticipate player behaviour, perhaps putting too much faith in the assumption that the playerbase as a whole will approach the game the same way the devs themselves would. This despite the fact that they themselves are only a small sample size and represent only one cultural group out of many.

This is why it's always important to align the players' interests with what's good for the game. The PL epidemic was a result of players chasing personal benefit at the cost of the integrity of the game as a whole. People were essentially shooting themselves in the foot, but the dev team was to blame for creating an environment that rewarded such actions, not the players themselves. Players seek to advance in the game the same way a current always takes the path of least resistance, yet some posters foolishly threw around accusations of hypocrisy when players who engaged in PL themselves questioned the legitimacy of the activity.