Do not force level caps on content - You segregate the player base

[Venat]

CoP was good because the story, content was hard and you needed a group alwas and battles were hard.

[Dzian]

I disagree, its better if the content requirement is lv60 to begin with.

And then everyone who is level 50 has fk all to do.

Level capped content is fine. It gives people stuff to do other than grind levels. CoP was an example of this.
Level to 30 do chapter 1
Level to 40 do chapter 2
Level to 50 do chapter 3.
Not just level to 75 and trounce the bloody lot.

As for helping out, people just need incentives. Levels have nothing to do with the fact noone ever helps people.

The number of times I see people shout for into the dark / united we stand / to kill a raven for hours because noone wants to help.

It has nothing to do with levels and everything to do with incentives or rewards for helping people.

If I got 5k seals for helping someone do united we stand even though I've already done it I'd be much more willing to go help people when I see shouts.

That's the reason people get left behind or new players can't catch up. not level caps or anything else. as proven by people struggling to catch up in the current game. it's not level caps holding them back.. it's people having no incentive to go help.

[Andrien]

And then everyone who is level 50 has fk all to do.

I don't think you thought this through. I doubt the dev team will leave that wide of a level gap with nothing to do. It is safe to assume in this scenario there will be content that has requirements for 50+. Besides 50s attempting something that is meant for 60s is something a leecher would try to do anyways.

Players will be gaining experience point while completing the main story, and questing in xiv, so I really doubt they'll implement caps for that, especially if the quest are all level and party difficulty appropriate.

[Dzian]

I don't think you thought this through. I doubt the dev team will leave that wide of a level gap with nothing to do. It is safe to assume in this scenario there will be content that has requirements for 50+. Besides 50s attempting something that is meant for 60s is something a leecher would try to do anyways..

But then if that content has anything remotely worthwhile as rewards then parties of level 60's would trounce farm it and make it effectively useless to any 50s. those 50s would just then get to 60 cos its easier that way...

If for example you were to keep av as level 50 content and the cap was raised to 60 how easy would it then be for those 60s to 17 minute and get there mythrils. the same with cutters cry the same with ifrit extreme. all you suceed in doing is undervaluing relic contents even more cos suddenly there easier to get. and all these people who find it hard at 50 will just grind to 60 to make it easier. and bam that level 50 content is never done by level 50 players. kinda like how toto-rak is now.

for the most part the gear scaling in xi was fairly accurate. people just got upset there byakkos hadiate only had 1-2 dex at 74 but 15 dex at 75. people forget that at 74 1-2 dex was about as good as you could get in a leg slot with standard gear.