XPing in the game

[Sedok]

To be fair you can play the game however you want

You can, just don't be surprised when the developers quash you're way of playing the game, because they have their own vision of what they want the project to be. And that's what this whole thread is.

Also, if everyone played the game however they wanted to, your server would then having competing macro-cultures all trying to push the game in different directions. That is not conducive to creating a thriving community, especially for a private, single-server, project of an offline game.

[blackwatch1508]

I like the current system. It makes you play the game. Yeah you can grind pve to 40 mindlessly killing mobs, I mostly do this lol(watch a movie, listen to an audio book), but your not playing half the game. I know my alliance doesn't mind letting sub lvl40s into our wbs, and when it's not a Zerg fest my chars lvls up at a good pace compared to when I grind. Also it's a lot more fun, the experience helps a lot tward me being a better player, being lvl 40 with low renown sucks, and the whole under 40 in orvr isn't nearly as bad in an organized group.
Also if there was no experience splitting or devs forbid a grouping bonus... That would be insane. 6 people Kil 6 lvl35 champ trolls, at like 5-6k exp a piece. That's like over 30k exp a minute easy, then you want to add a group bonus. You could grind 39 to 40 in less then a half hour. Crazyness

[Marnles]

Why not have all players scale to a level adequate for Public Quests they are near? A lot of my friends have quit because some of us have more time to play than the others and can't play together with regards to PQs because the level gap becomes too large. To prevent abuse with players scaling up to T3 or T4 zones for extremely fast exp, you could allow players to only scale down to the PQ level or come up with another solution. Sometimes PvP is dead and having alternatives to logging off and coming back later would be nice; I believe something like this could fill that void.

[RuffRyder]

Just as a suggestion: Do some of the epic quests from time to time, plus PQs, so you can level up quicker - especially with the epics where you can make 2-3 levels during one run and you can even do it solo - and you get some shinies out of it.

Furthermore the capital city quests offer more XP and grinding higher mobs, which you can use for crafting, too, adds more XP.
Leveling up is not that hard.