I agree with Lilian. While seeing the occasional ant swarm of people in places they really oughtn't to be can be vexing when your'e trying to grind, I look at it this way: They're really not doing that much harm. I mean, it takes them a good while to kill something, so its not like they're taking all the spawn. When Lil and I grinded a lot on blue trumpies and an ant swarm of level 3x-mid 4x would come in, we would kill about 5-6 trumpies before they could kill just one, lol.
With people farming things though, the only frustration it caused was when they would run towards us with a trumpy and die at our feet, leaving us with aggro, which with her being such a beast wasn't ever a problem, but if she were say, a mage or something, then I could see it being an issue.
My ideal resolution of dealing with this problem is simple and balanced.
Instead of putting an experience cap on mobs, put a level cap on gates. However, it should still be available for people who do not meet the cap to pass through the gates so long as they are in a party with somebody who can. This would still allow for powerleveling to take place, or duoing if your cleric is quite lower than you. I mean, you get an exp boost from powerleveling lowbies for a reason, I think. :3 Maybe not though since, after all, its outspark.
But this way of course would still allow people to do the same thing they are doing but it would be in a much more controlled and fair aspect.
It seems a lot of people who have reached levels above 50 have, no offense, forgotten what it was like to be such a low level and broke, and have become somewhat snobby and even greedy about the issue.
Come on, you guys remember how devastated we were as lowbies, always broke and barely scraping by with a silver or two? =P And how would you feel if you had a friend you wanted to powerlevel or help out, but you couldn't because of these caps or restrictions? Would eat away at the gameplay's community aspects.
Lets see some pros and cons:
- P R O
- Can powerlevel friends of any level in any area
- Duoing with lower clerics possible
- Being able to participate in events that take place in areas
- Have a friend escort you somewhere that you could farm some for money
- C O N
- Bots are able to get through
- Farmers can cause deaths to some
- Ant swarms of 3x-4x (If you consider them a real "Threat")
These are just my personal lists. But yeah, actually, the most trouble lil and I had while grinding in blue trumpies wasn't caused by farmers or lowbies, but rather by people quite higher who would take the entire spawn of the map.
Like I said - I honestly believe most complaints are from people of higher levels who have gotten a little overly greedy.