Players connot join the party while you are engaged in combat

[Zacko]

its basically to prevent the many exploits that we had in ffxi, log off your hate, come back, the new exploit of changing skills mid combat and the old of gear swapping. the only solution i can think of is if it doesnt actually kick players when they get dced in a party, and puts them in a standby state where they can still die, get hit etc, but i dont really know if the whole log in and etc mechanic would support that

I agree that some restrictions/conditions should be applied, because we all know that players will exploit whatever they can , but to completely prevent us from doing some basic things is a little too much in my opinion.

They could always impose some kind of weakness or "cooldown" for changing classes/skills in the middle of the fight.

As for logging hate, perhaps they could try and make sure that hate you had just before logging out is not immediately lost...but you keep loosing it when you get back on (if you get back in next 3-5min for example).

This is just a basic example, I'm sure there are brighter people around who can think of better ways to deal with hell maybe even SE can come up with something lol

[Kallera]

I agree that some restrictions/conditions should be applied, because we all know that players will exploit whatever they can , but to completely prevent us from doing some basic things is a little too much in my opinion.

They could always impose some kind of weakness or "cooldown" for changing classes/skills in the middle of the fight.

As for logging hate, perhaps they could try and make sure that hate you had just before logging out is not immediately lost...but you keep loosing it when you get back on (if you get back in next 3-5min for example).

This is just a basic example, I'm sure there are brighter people around who can think of better ways to deal with hell maybe even SE can come up with something lol

I think there was a status effect in the system specifically to address class changing in battle..