PLEASE have some sort of balance in PotD? Introduce some sort of checkpoint system.

[Jetstream_Fox]

There's a reason for that. If they didn't put in that limitation, you know people would "accidentally" DC whenever there was the possibility of a wipe, so they didn't get a penalty. Sure, it screws players who have something legit happen, but that's a small price to pay for being able to stop cheaters. I mean, look at the abuse rampant in every other thing in this game. Win Traders, speed hackers, etc. I mean, we had a BLM who used a third party tool to cast spells faster than the GCD. So if some poor shmuck gets the boot and loses their progress, while yeah, that sucks for them, or even me, if it happens to me, at least some unskilled scrub cheaters can't abuse it to make it further in.

I understand the logic behind cheating the system, but that doesn't mean they couldn't have worked out a contingency plan. They could have easily developed a timer that resets every day or once a week, that gives players 1 free pass for dc issues, that upon use sets players back 5 floors, removes pomanders, and upgrades obtained. This is a small courtesy that gives SE the appearance that they understand many outside issues can obstruct this particular content, but they're not going to let you go right back to where you were with what you had.

Regardless of what content people play there is always a way to game the system in some capacity, that's just really the nature of games, even games such as Bloodborne and Dark Souls have ways to cheat around rules, yet those developers don't run and patch it unless it's truly game breaking, for example, in Bloodborne leaving your game on in the starting area for an entire day used to result in enemy AI becoming watered down, this was patched for obvious reasons. While that is Bloodborne and this is XIV, two very different games, cheating is still going to be a thing. Think of force dcing like it's a rolling stop, ya it's not technically legal, and you'll likely get off with a warning for it, but the second time you do it, you'll be paying a fee. SE has all the game data, they can easily look back and determine who is doing it maliciously, the only catch is, they don't do this.