IllegallySane Wrote:A couple levels is fine. The former (hardcore leeching) is a blatant insult to the class the player chose to leech. Why even play it if you will suck at 4th job? If there was a way to distinguish hardcore leechers from people who actually leveled by grinding I could see leeching dropping in a sense, because who wants to party with a person who knows jack squat about the class?
Hey I thought of a way... call it your "leech rating".
Shows, as a percentage, how much of your exp you gained yourself, and how much you gained due to party members. In cases where you both hit a monster, it would be granted based on how much HP you took down (1 hp = ~0%, 34999 hp = 100%) multiplied by the total exp gained.
Obviously nobody would be at 100% or 0%, but it would be obvious who just partied a lot (you get ~60% for your own kills in a fair 2-person party) and who paid for their level.
Higher levels would be able to reduce it, since low levels become less and less significant (doubling time of 13 levels on exp tnl) but would require actually playing the character.