Once full groups are available for the service, you just PL the heck out of one character to do seven.

Not quite sure how likely that is to work. If you have to PL the heck out of one character at twice the amount of XP for the current pact system, it’s reasonable to assume that one character leveling at a time would need eight times the experience to level a full group worth of Pact.

You can avoid having to give out account information, but each character that does so is going to cut down experience gain for the ’set’ (if X minion is ‘worth’ 100 xp for a full group, a group with one LP being powerleveled is only going to get that LP 50 experience as opposed to the typical 100 for a conventional power leveling. Doubling the time required probably won’t double the costs, but it’ll add significantly to them.

Final Fantasy XI recently introduced “Level Sync”, but this seems more to be like Exemplar/malefactor or perhaps more like EQ2 mentoring but for a whole team. The team memberss effective level is reduced to that of a selected player in the team, if their real level is higher.

I LOVE it.
I prefer to call it “Innovation in evolution of the genre”
How brilliant, and a very smart system for couples who play or buddies in small groups.

These guys impress me so much.

Wish I liked Super Hero games though.

Brian Clayton:
Sure. I mean, it’s absolutely a concern. It’s a concern that we deal with today, without the system. Really, what we’re trying to do is build opportunities for our players to play the games in the way they want to. We’ll continue to enforce our policies, and do everything we can to mitigate powerleveling services and things like that. But more importantly, this is a feature that our customers have been asking for, and it’s a feature that we want to provide them with. Arguably, you could say we’re making it easier for some of these powerleveling services, but at the same time we’re probably improving the grouping experience for a substantial amount of our customers.

Matt Miller:
There’s actually less incentive now to use a powerleveling service, because now instead of paying someone to powerlevel my guy, I can actually have my friend play… and I’m not giving up my play time to some other service. I actually get to play whenever I want to on my character. And my friend gets to play whenever he wants to on his character, and we’re both leveling at the same rate.

I don’t think their arguments actually work, because this does make a new, more convenient method of powerleveling easier. Once full groups are available for the service, you just PL the heck out of one character to do seven.

But really, if you are missing the leveling game in City of Heroes, you are missing the game. The game has little endgame. And this only works if you want to skip to the end, otherwise you are permanently tied to whatever character you are in a pact with. Maybe powerleveling services will have a couples deal, I don’t know, but you must start by level 5 and it never ends, so it only works if you want to buy a 50. [new dev comment, see below]

Love the Multi-builds; currently playing a Mind/Psi Dominator with lots of Leadership picks, which is fantastic in large groups, but painful to solo. Having a second set-up with more Psi than Mind and some other solo-based Pools would help enormously.

Quite annoyed about Architect itself being pushed back - it’s the main reason I resubbed recently; so see how that’s going to work.