Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Rowyne]

This issue has gotten so out of control that it's become one of four major reasons I've decided not to sub come January 6th.

While many things have been fixed since launch, core issues (like this) are now actually worse.

It saddens and angers me to see that this game is most likely irreparably broken until 2.0 because Yoshi-P is obviously okay with this.

[ChiefCurrahee]

Abolish PL, add level sync.

[Kitfox]

Abolish PL, add level sync.

I support this.

[Stradivari]

SE, as a former FFXI player, what kept me in the game for all the years that I did stay, was the challenge. The game forced you to be social and interact with others in order to succeed. Here, all you need is to know one or two other people and you get a free ride to the top...

Power Leveling has got to stop... it's not only ruining the future of the game, it's ruining it for the people that currently play and don't even realize it...

There have been plenty of statements made in this thread that validate why power leveling on this scale is a ticking time bomb...

=(

[AndySolace]

Abolish PL, add level sync.

God damnit stop necrobumping dead threads. Get over yourself already.

Mods kill this thread already, please?

NB: Are the forums always like this? It' absolutely retarded. Wish i'd never joined.

/logout

[Elexia]

God damnit stop necrobumping dead threads. Get over yourself already.

Jesus you hate people playing together that much? lol.

[ssppiikkeeyy]

level sync should of been in the game since day 1, they designed this game to be solo play ok awesome but now u cant even solo. takes nearly a month just to solo to 50 maybe more i no it took me 2 weeks to solo till 32 ><

Now there isnt any partys i have not seen 1 party shout or even a party on my server this last week just pling. i acully had to pay people to party with me which got me thinking y should i be paying other people my level just so i can level when i can pay a pler and just get it over and done with.

Since SE wont fix this and bring out dam level sync you might as well try and use what we have got. the worst part is i hate being pled i hate not knowing my job and god i hate not being able to meet new people and talking to my party while were exping wtf SE what are u guys going to do about this?

[Sorel]

level sync should of been in the game since day 1, they designed this game to be solo play ok awesome but now u cant even solo. takes nearly a month just to solo to 50 maybe more i no it took me 2 weeks to solo till 32 ><

Now there isnt any partys i have not seen 1 party shout or even a party on my server this last week just pling. i acully had to pay people to party with me which got me thinking y should i be paying other people my level just so i can level when i can pay a pler and just get it over and done with.

Since SE wont fix this and bring out dam level sync you might as well try and use what we have got. the worst part is i hate being pled i hate not knowing my job and god i hate not being able to meet new people and talking to my party while were exping wtf SE what are u guys going to do about this?

This could be more evidence of power-leveling hindering regular party playability. However it isn't irrefutable evidence unless you can provide screenshots and/or date, time, timezone, and server. The last part is important because SE has the means of actually checking the data logs to see actually what was happening and the context in which it was happening. At that point it stops becoming subjective opinion, and starts becoming empirical fact.

[ChiefCurrahee]

This could be more evidence of power-leveling hindering regular party playability. However it isn't irrefutable evidence unless you can provide screenshots and/or date, time, timezone, and server. The last part is important because SE has the means of actually checking the data logs to see actually what was happening and the context in which it was happening. At that point it stops becoming subjective opinion, and starts becoming empirical fact.

Do you think fraps videos of how PL mechanics are effecting the game bring something not yet known by the dev team? I can make those videos and post them here, part of the player base would say "yeah so what" the other part would say "this needs to get abolished stat!"
So it comes down to the devs. Yoshi said he himself thinks PL is fine, because the higher rank player is taking his time to level the lower player.
What I wonder is did they think the system would be abused in such a way? I don't think they thought that far ahead when they made the system.

I think the best those of us that are ANTI-PL can hope for is further revisions to the claim system once ver 2.0 arrives.

[Sidious]

Power leveling needs to go in my opinion.