Powerleveling Revisited

[Aleczan]

How exactly does one "steal your party members". I'm asking because I have put together a great number of EXP parties over the years. An EXP party is:

• Generally a pick up group.
• It is maybe rude to leave it unannounced.
• It is rude to leech if you are expected to be pulling your weight.
• It is not an agreement to do whatever the Party Leader says because it is his/her party.
• People can leave parties if they don't like what the leader is doing.
• Party leaders can remove people they don't want in their party, and then recruit others to replace them.

People joined your random EXP party, probably from a shout in Ul'dah, they didn't elect you their moral compass.

Do you know it takes time and effort to look for members and put together a balanced party?

Yes?

Good.

Now look, someone took time and effort to make a party. After the party is finished, they go out to kill stuff.

Supposed a person who joined without doing any work in recruiting suddenly wanted to get PL'ed, and called their friend to come help PL.

Now, at least half of the party want to welcome PL, while the leader and just 1-2 friends want to continue playing normally.

The party now breaks into half, or 3:5. The 2 groups part ways.

The leader and 2 friends now cannot continue leveling up in that camp because it was originally chosen for a group of 8 people.

If you want to leave the party for a PL, then fine. Just notify the group you're going to leave, and then shout to recruit for your own members. Don't be a lazy ass and use the shortcut by taking other people's ready-made party. Wrecking someone else's party - a party that was doing good and getting EXP - is just rude.

And yeah people have free will to leave the party for whatever reason. But it's another story if you make use of other people, like slaving them to make a party for you without knowing, and then take their members, leaving them in the middle of nowhere.

Yes leader can replace members, but how are they suppose to recruit like, say, 5 members in the middle of EXP camp? Perhaps people in Ul'dah would miraculously see their shout from Camp Glory???

Maybe you're right, people have their own freewill and freedom. But it's against my moral standard to make use of other people's effort, break their party in half, and leave them stranded out there just because I have the FREEDOM to do so.

If you still don't understand what point we're making here, then I have nothing more to say. I tried my best.