Punishment for exploitation of Power Leveling

[TheVedis]

You can't get 1-50 in a day of power leveling. That's a huge exaggeration.

with 18 hours of straight grinding and a power level you can
someone did a test, but they also DID NOT do it on a single class
they earned 2mil exp ina single day
that exp was spread across several jobs, which is why people say you can do 1-50 in a day

its not that you actualy go from 1-50, its you gain the equivilent exp if you get power leveled for 20 hours straight

[ViolentDjango]

It IS exploiting something the way people took advantage of it. Exploiting may be assumed to be a negative word, but it isn't always so. It's not cheating because SE allowed it.

I'm fully aware that Yoshida-san said that PLing is fine. It wouldn't make sense for them to punish players for something they said, "go ahead and take advantage of it if you want," to. That has nothing to do with the word exploit and people's assumptions about it though.

Something being allowed does not mean it can't be exploited, AKA: taken advantage of.

I surrender.

[Onidemon]

I feel there should be some sort of punishment for those who willing took advantage of power leveling. Either a rollback of the ill gotten experience points, or even a suspension or ban for the really big exploiters. It's unfair to those that leveled legitimately.

Why Ban people for using something SE themselves gave us? It was SE's mistake not the users. Also, how do you plan on finding out who got power leveled?

[options]

Yeah, I said that in your other dimension =)
I said it's a risk, and if that's going to happen and someone asks me on how to use skills while supposedly being fully experienced on that I'll just not help them. That's my kinda punishment.
And I say that it happened in other MMOs, so it could be likely happen in this game too, but I don't care, the Dev team is gonna solve this in 1.19a, rite?

Yeah they are doing something, but by how much? 1.19a will tell. Is it going to be enough to satisfy the anti-powerleveling crowd?

You gotta understand, if someone asks you how to use their skills at r50, then they are stupid. They're gonna be stupid whether or not it takes em a year to cap, 2 months to cap, or 1 day. They're gonna be stupid at lvl 1 or lvl 50.

[Bizzy]

I feel there should be some sort of punishment for those who willing took advantage of power leveling. Either a rollback of the ill gotten experience points, or even a suspension or ban for the really big exploiters. It's unfair to those that leveled legitimately.

There should be a Dislike Button and you should be banned for making a post like this. Why waste our time reading this. We shouldn't be punished for what the dev team implemented. This will be fixed in the next patch.

[syntaxlies]

Yeah they are doing something, but by how much? 1.19a will tell. Is it going to be enough to satisfy the anti-powerleveling crowd?

You gotta understand, if someone asks you how to use their skills at r50, then they are stupid. They're gonna be stupid whether or not it takes em a year to cap, 2 months to cap, or 1 day. They're gonna be stupid at lvl 1 or lvl 50.

watch them make it so that all characters in the party have to move to get xp in which case everyone would auto follow the PL. lol.

[Vahzl]

Why? What did they do to you? They didn't harm you in any way.

What are you proposing anyway? that like half the playerbase gets banned?

Banning 6 people? Are you mad?!?!

[Aenarion]

the OP should be banned for further lowering the average IQ of the forum users.

[Renshi]

Yeah they are doing something, but by how much? 1.19a will tell. Is it going to be enough to satisfy the anti-powerleveling crowd?

You gotta understand, if someone asks you how to use their skills at r50, then they are stupid. They're gonna be stupid whether or not it takes em a year to cap, 2 months to cap, or 1 day. They're gonna be stupid at lvl 1 or lvl 50.

Yeah. But it happened, and I had to stand some people who didn't know how to use skills in other MMOs, so I suppose there's a risk in this game too if this goes up. Well, they said the PL problem was because of a non-wanted "bug" that they were gonna fix these days, but since 1.19a is happening shortly they'll take it there. Let's hope for the best =)

Returning to the topic, I don't think that who got power-leveled should be punished by the Dev team. They wanted to do it, it's their way to have fun and things. Don't blame someone because that someone likes to do things in a different way! (with harsh punishments. My punishment would still go on and I'd let that someone learn their actions by themselves)

[ViolentDjango]

with 18 hours of straight grinding and a power level you can
someone did a test, but they also DID NOT do it on a single class
they earned 2mil exp ina single day
that exp was spread across several jobs, which is why people say you can do 1-50 in a day

its not that you actualy go from 1-50, its you gain the equivilent exp if you get power leveled for 20 hours straight

Yeah, that's completely reasonable to complain about...

You could hit level 75 in Classic (pre-Abyssea, Pre-TP burn) FFXI in less than a week playing 20 hours a day and the projected level time for an efficient player was 3-5 months to 75 at that time.

I know because I did it back before I had a life with priorities and responsibilities Shit, we're grading games on how quickly the obsessive minority does things? This game will never be slow enough, then.

the OP should be banned for further lowering the average IQ of the forum users.

They are killing me, man. I've regressed back to using images and youtube links to express my points. You should be able to sue people for assaulting your brain cells. Seriously.