Instant leveling fromNCSoft?

In general I agree with the sentiment that autoleveling is bad. But the reality is that the RMT people cause a lot of problems, and if it were possible to destroy their business model without destroying the game, it might be an acceptable trade-off.

Under certain conditions, it might make sense for NCSoft to sell you an autoleveled third build that functions only under certain circumstances: a PvP build, for example, that only works in PvP zones and the arena. Your other builds would have to be leveled the normal way.

The price for that build would have to be commensurate with the subscription time lost. For example, if it were determined that it takes on average 100 hours to level a character to 50 under optimal conditions (these are just numbers I'm throwing out -- the devs would have to compute real values), and the average player spends 10 hours a week, it would take 10 weeks, or two months, of subscription time to get to level 50. The price would thus be $30 to autolevel to 50.

A compromise might be the ability to pay for turning on 2XP permanently for a character, or maybe even 4XP or higher. Patrol XP is already a move in that direction, but you have to leave the character idle for a time.

Another possibility would be to allow the purchase of autoleveled characters only by veterans of a certain level.

A corresponding change that might also make sense would be to allow you to purchase veteran rewards up front: if you buy two years of subscription time at once, you immediately get all the vet rewards (though you don't actually get the vet badges).

I don't think it is a bad idea for NCsoft to sell leveling upgrades.

Some people enjoy playing the game by leveling up themselves. Other people enjoy coming in at the top, and will abuse the game mechanics trying to get there.

I wouldn't ever buy a level, since I'd prefer to level by playing the game, but other people would do it.

NCsoft should probably also sell inf as well. Again, I'm not interested in buying it, as I don't really need it to play, but clearly a lot of people do buy inf from RMT types. I'd rather see that money going to Paragon Studios for game development.

I don't see how this would be the death knell for the game. People who want these things are already getting them done. It won't stop people from playing at lower levels, and it won't stop people from earning inf.

In fact, one change I could foresee for the game in relation to this is something of an abolishment of level-oriented content, and more of a move toward content suitable for any level, where completion of an arc might unlock subsequent arcs in the story.

Thye should just make a PVP server for those of us sick of the grind. Have instant 50s free accolades and any recipes from a vendor. It would only be a pvp server so I dont see the harm.

But of course lolpvp nothing like this is ever gonna be done most likely. sigh.

eleventy bajillion percent /unsigned to this idea. and to all those that think this is a good idea, what MMO do you plan on going to next when NC shuts the doors? stop thinking about how you would use it and think how the 100 some odd thousand others would use it.

What i rather see is a Vet reward that lets you get to 20 because I really do not care for the lower levels. Especially since, if you need Stamina, there does 3 powers for Fitness pool.
After 5+ years running the content at lower levels get old and I done different directions on every new character.

I've asked people before what they would do if they had a literal "I Win" button that would take them to 50. I got mixed answers, but about half of them said they would use it once or twice.

It made me sad.

I don't understand why anyone has such difficulties leveling in this game. We've had 2 or 3 xp curves, debt nerfs, and changes to the difficulty system. This game was easy enough to level 1 - 50 before all the xp curves.

Can someone explain how the game gets damaged by allowing players to officially buy their levels and inf instead of buying it on the black market?

All I've heard people say here is that they wouldn't take advantage of such a program, or they might do it once or twice.

So ... where's the damage coming from?