Retrying the same Leve Quest

[Dragonhaven]

It is common pratice for players to have a static group who have the same leves, they make sure to link all of their leves to get the max SP, then fail the leve after killing all but the last require monster for the leve, this insures they can retry the leve in 2 days when the leves reset. Once the reset happens they repeat this action, which insures the maximum ammount of SP from leves every 2 days by doing the same leve's over and over, with out ever completing them.

My question is:
Is this pratice ok, or is it viewd as an offence?

[Dragonhaven]

Platform: Windows
Date & Time: 27Apr2011 0600
Frequency: none for me
Character Name: Dragon Haven
Race: Highlander
World: Trabia
Class/Skill Rank: 44/lancer
Physical Level: 46
Area and Coordinates: the world
Party or Solo: both
NPC Name: n/a
Monster Name: n/a
In-Game Time: n/a

[Viperdance]

There is another thread where it is posited that this has been allowed by Square Enix:

The fact is this has been going on for a very long time and SE are well aware of that and have done nothing to stop it so it is not an "exploit". As Applepie stated "actual exploits" of spawning endless mobs and the spamming buffs to get crazy SP were dealt with by SE as soon as they were aware. They have done nothing to stop the abandoning of Leve's, why? Because it is not an exploit that's why.

We have only the dev team to blame for that ^^. But since they have authorized it, people will do it until it becomes unnecessary to do it.

Ok so this is like the umpeenth thread on this, it surfaces as a new one every other friggin week

but let me sum up what EVERY OTHER thread on it has stated

1) This is not a exploit, it is not a bug, its reward vs sp, you sacrifice the reward to get more sp
2) The devs added this on purpose, it isnt an accident
3) people will always whine about something they dont agree with

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post103745


It seems people are basing this on an interview where the developers said it was OK to do this. I could not find the source of this.

It would be good if they would address this directly saying it is part of the system or it is an exploit, do not do this.

[Reika]

It has been mentioned many times that this is ok to do, and over many threads. the only exploit with leve abandonment has been fixed (Faction NM leves)

[Laros]

Honestly I am good at the English language and this is just as confusing as another language. I cannot get a grasp on the content let alone the subject!

Yea I agree something official would be nice.

[Haru]

In game GM says "It's ok to do since the ABANDON feature is there, as long as it does not adversely affect other players or cause one player to gain a significant advantage it will not result in an infraction"

In other words this is allowed, and since it's available to everyone its not going to give you any advantage over anyone else.

Example: the infinite runestones for no faction points exploit.

[Dragonhaven]

do you have a screenshot of this becasue it seems that we are being ignored by the GMs here

[Haru]

I don't believe I have one but let me check

[Dragonhaven]

thank you Haru its been 72hrs since this was posted, ive followed the steps given to me by SE customer service over the phone and then followed the instructions passed to me by a GM premade message, Im hoping Xophious or Baccanale will give us a heads up and put this to rest.

[Eekiki]

So it's not a bug. However, I feel SE should close this loophole. I don't think there should be any reward for intentionally failing.