Source: http://forums.aiononline.com/na/showthread.php?p=329918#post=329918

i hope so, twinks drive off so many new players!

rifting is part of the game it makes this game a pvepvp game. people who whine and complain about rifters wont last long in the game anyways

thats all fine and dandy, but even to the player that loves the threat of enemies in the territory, running into a twink (even 4 or 5 levels below you) that has a +15 weapon and +10 gold abyss pvp gear and jewelry that they farmed for months, after suiciding 30+ times daily to stay their level, you get mowed down in 10 seconds. you can call for help! you cant fight, not even at all.

i twinked my cleric in 3 months of total play starting witha fresh account. im a 40 twink that mows anything under 50. its not hard to gear up people just need to put work in

thats kind of his point, people that played for months and months that kept their character that low specifically to kill the new players drive them away, im currently level 26 and i can't go anywhere without being killed, i try to grind in Eltnen= ganked, abyss=ganked, any quest i try to run= ganked

so i don't even play right now unless i can do the instance but with so many people being driven out of the game i can't even find a party no party=no leveling, no leveling=i'll quit too

making an all day every day thing about making sure the other race knows that you've got a twinked out char that will fuck up anybody near your level everytime you set foot on this map makes chars not play anymore- once in a while is fine, but not every 2minutes

wouldn't put it past them.
regardless of what you think about twinking, gm interference in the game like this is complete bullshit.

At level 26...and you're making seem like you're talking about traveling the abyss..

You should not venture far into the abyss at 26, twinked or not, its pretty much suicide for the most part.

GM interference is wrong no matter what, at 26 there is a few grind spots for both factions.

Eltnen and Theobomos I think it's called, for elyos where as Morheim and Brusthonin for asmos.

In both of these maps, theres plenty of grind spots where people uncommonly go. I'll either see no one there, or a bot, just because they themselves know no one goes around there
But at 26, you're having it easy leveling. 29-30 is the worse for asmos in the 20-30 range, where as 20-25 comes in 2nd. 25-29 is just easy.

as a tip to level faster, don't play to level.

If you want to level faster, just grind and join groups and stuff, don't expect to be leveled, and don't focus on the xp bar.

and levels will just randomly happen out of nowhere

This post was edited by 3hitk0 on Aug 17 2010 08:54pm

complete trash leveling / grinding advice. grind the balaur by sulfer fort for money and drops obv on top of making the money off of balaur mats you make decent ap.

hit did you not read anything i said? people with twinked out chars are forcing players my own level to quit, therefore there are no parties so i'm forced to do the slow bullshit grind and ya the abyss is the best place for my level to grind exp/ abyss points as long as i'm not being ganked

no shit the other race will kill me- i just got killed by a level 48 so what i'm an easy target i would kill me too but thats the point, people only tackle the weak chars making them quit so newer players can't level, which is why the gm's interfered

people with attitudes like "i'm going to kill everyone 10+ levels lower than me and make them quit" hurt business, if i was the GM i'de stop you too, 1 decked out player rage quits because the gm interfered or 10+ people quit because the rager wouldn't allow any new players to play..simple math there guy, i'de take the more money