Where is my level sync

[Akumu]

Its very clear that you never used XI's level sync, and as a FFXI vet, it was amazing... I don't know why your friends felt it to be so wrong, and I do know people who didn't care for it, so in that case I'd say, then don't use it. But others shouldn't be penalized because some people don't want it.

In XI, you couldn't level sync until Level 10, it didn't go lower then that, and they could easily add some balance to it in FFXIV... Where as the SP calculations would be based off the sync, and then have some kind of deduction for being over the sync... So in the case of a rank 30 player syncing to a Rank 10 party, players who are Rank 10 get 100% sp/xp while players who are rank 30 get 50% Sp/XP... (Or some other numbers or math, etc, I'm just making up numbers as an example)

In this case, everyone still gets sp/xp and can party, but the higher level players would get less... And less is better then nothing, as well as throwing off the sp/xp calcs for the lower ranking players.

With some kind of penalty like this, everyone can group, get sp/xp and thus as players rank up they would naturally be encouraged to move to a new zone, to get the best sp/xp and not re-sync down to 10 again.

Now also, since there might be some who don't know how this also works... You can't just set a level and sync down to it, you must have someone of that level in your party... As they level up the party's sync level goes up too... You can't sync down, unless you get someone who is the player who want to sync with... thus vets end up helping out new players, and people can play with each other however they choose.

Right now, I never get to play my con with my friends because I'm 25 ranks higher then they are, so end on working on other classes that I don't have any interest in... :S

Yea I must admit as a vet myself level sync helped me a lot with parties. The wait times were very minimal and I could even play with my brother or friends that were lower than me. The problem with level sync comes from not being balanced properly but instead just allowing the syncing down of players while not taking into account the opportunities for exploits.

Even if they add level sync they should keep analyzing it and keeping watch for exploits such as smn burns in XI.

edit: Even GW2 is using a level sync feature so why can't SE use a feature they already had? As previously stated I am neutral overall but for XIV I can see a lot more good than bad.

[RathSkybreaker]

I am gonna have to agree with you on this one. Point is not enough people were xping at lower levels and you needed a group to level up especially if they added all these jobs and you want to level something new up yourself. You would be stuck with no pt for idk how long. Idk how well it would do in XIV but it wasnt a throw in the towel move by SE imo.

Hey ashely but regardless I agree with you, but not so much with what kilta was saying. In a sense it is easy mode as you're taking someone with more experience and letting them take away from that learning curve that they had to go through. But regardless I agree with you ash mainly because towards the later years of XI parties at lowbie levels were stupid hard to find... So it was a good thing, not a game breaker until they awarded full exp for all levels.. they should have gimped that. Granted they didn't want people to feel like they're wasting their time, however don't bread a new generation of quifim 75-ers either.. just my 2 cents.. I don't know if I would like the same level sync in this game though...

[drakken]

Interesting thread. It seems a lot of the people talking either want to power level, or are afraid of it.

To me level sync has nothing to do with that.

A friend and I don't have equal time, and its a fact that being a different level makes some things difficult. It also ruins the fun for us when one of us is gimp compared to the other. it really sucks to be a tank when your friend is a few levels higher and you are pretty much useless.

Level sync fixes that.

My friend and I duo a lot, and in any MMO we tend to quest and level much slower than everyone else, so our desire for level sync is actually to let us slow leveling, not speed it up.

Any game without features like this in 2011 is just inherently broken.

*ALL* game features can be and are abused, crippling a game to avoid that doesn't make sense. For us, not having level sync is a huge negative in our play style and fun.

When fixing problems in a game, designers need to make sure the solution is not worse than the problem.

[Shika]

Level sync in FFXIV as it stands would not be such a bad idea and I can understand why they implemented it in FFXI.
But, if they get rid of the physical level and change skill point allocation to a system similar to FFXI- i.e. having to actually skill up magic/attack attributes (e.g. sword skill or enfeebling magic)- then in my opinion I hope they don't put level sync in. Playing with people that did nothing but burn through levels synced to somewhere like the dunes, and then trying to hit stuff at a higher level without capping their appropriate skills was just awful.
Warrior - *whiff* *whiff* *whiff* *whiff* *Hits for 1 point of damage* *whiff* *whiff* *whiff*..... you get the idea.

[Nephera]

It'll probably be helpful to have at ps3 release.

[Enthy]

Level sync please! /like

[Delmontyb]

Yes, please add this into the game... I think this would really help high level players and low level players get together once the big changes have been implemented.

If they had this by PS3 release I think that would be a big help for new players coming into the game.

Also, the post exists in the gameplay board:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...8Level%29-Sync

[Zenaku]

we don't need this right now maybe in a few years for me this just mess up ffxi for me sorry but no thanks.

[Delmontyb]

we don't need this right now maybe in a few years for me this just mess up ffxi for me sorry but no thanks.

How did this mess up FFXI for you? I'm just curious as I had the opposite experience.

[Zenaku]

How did this mess up FFXI for you? I'm just curious as I had the opposite experience.

I enjoy going camp to camp once it was added to the game all i did was party at 37 and it's not like i could make my own party and go to the right camp. Everyone would just leave and make the party themself and go to the Ron (s). Once you do endgame events you saw many noobs without the needed skills.I know in FFXIV that does not matter but i guess it can work out in FFXIV better then it did in FFXI.

Seeing how we level by doing dungeon and quest and leve quest and not really party camp this may work out in ffxiv. But i wish it was never added to ffxi i never had issue looking for players only when a new game came out or it was sports week or something like that,.