I’ve been enjoying the game solo and got a couple of friends to start playing, so we started up a new Realm and got through to Sacrament. I’d love to run around and grab lumber and ore while they’re offline, but the experience curve of this game means I’d quickly out-level them even just gathering.
It would be great to have an option for a Realm to band levels so that no one player can out level anyone else but still be able to play the game.
As an example:
We start a new Realm and set Banded Leveling to +2. We have three players and all three of us log off at level 6. Player A decides that he wants to hop on and just do some gathering, and in the process hits level 8. Now player A doesn’t gain any experience until players B and C gain a level. Once they’re level 7, now any player is able to get to level 9.
It would let players who just want to run around and play the game to do so without worrying about outleveling and trivializing questing and progression when others are able to get back online.