AFK Leveling

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This is to the Devs. AFK leveling is ruining the game, SP parties are so easy that a person can just latch on and not do a thing and gain SP. Whether the party is a grinding party or leve linking party people are getting SP while not at their computer screen. This is happening because party members do not have to pull their own weight in parties and this makes this kind of situation possible. This is pretty much botting with a safety net. Archers can rank from 1-50 without shooting a single arrow, gladiators can hit 50 wearing a weathered sword and shield in their underwear.

Yes AFK leveling is a effective method of gaining SP because every knows you only need 4-5 active members to effectively kill anything that is worth good SP. For example in a r40-45 leve linking party doing Ranine Reveries in which the SP is capped at 3-4 star rating only 5 of those 8 members have to be active for the party to complete the leve which leaves 3 spots open for AFK leechers and such but regardless of who did what everyone gains the same SP.

Edit: Since my post is confusing for lots of people I'm going to borrow panda's picture to better explain myself.

http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...1298656210.jpg

Yeah who cares if you afk because you need to use the potty or having a cig break. But if you're ranking entire jobs from 1 to 50 without ever having to engage in combat then yes its a problem. Why is it a problem? Because you don't have to be at your screen to gain SP. Botting requires you to not be at your screen while gaining SP. Do you seem the similarities?

Yes there are people out there doing this, and a solution to this would be a new method of SP distribution to party members.

Edit 2: This isn't about one or two people AFKing for a few minutes at a time. What I'm pointing at is organized AFK leeching. Whole parties dedicated to AFK leeching, Linkshells that organize these AFK parties. Report them all you want, b-list them, avoid them, but I'm only trying to inform the community of what they're doing so we can shun them and not get involved.