what would you consider a powerleveler?

[theirah]

just curious as to peoples definitions of powerleveler, and how many you would meet in an average real-time day.

[Zan]

Someone who makes being better than everyone else in certain areas their top priority. To the extent that friendship, family, etc. are being neglected (or roleplay in planeshift terms).

[Parallo]

I'd say that about 70% of the people that I see everyday in PS are powerlevelers. If I went to the arena at all I'd imagine that I'd see about 90%.

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

Hotly contested topic, again i think the manner in which powerleveler is tossed about in ps is egregious and somewhat leet on the part of some of our role players. Nowadays it seems almost everyone is a "powerleveler." I would very much like to see the community exercise greater restraint in terms of who they label with this moniker and why. Except in the case of botters there is not much "twinking" happening. To me this indicates that we have many levelers but not many power levelers.

Ps dev team is strongly allied with the idea of teaching rp skills and the production of true immersion in our game world, players will definitely see changes that may enhance the rp aspect of the game. However, because roleplaying is highly subjective and therefore nearly impossible to codify the final responsibility for teaching rp within the community will always fall on the community itself. I would certainly like to see more of an effort made to teach new players these skills from the outset. Mind you I am not asking for anything I have not done myself.

Many of the the coders, artists, writers and demonic presences on the ps dev team currently are veteran roleplayers and very eager to improve the quality and rp-ability of PS, but as I said, it is difficult to do. Labeling other players with a word with such negative connotations cannot really be a great way to open the door to good communication. If players want the rp to improve they can do a few things fairly easily:

Host player events.

Use the temple.

Avoid cliche roles.

Stop hanging out at the smithy. (again it is loud and smelly)

Take the rain as real.

Reach out to other players.

Also note you have the dev team to blame in part as we are leeching off good rpers every week to join the team.

[Mordraugion]

Ask a hundred players and you'll get a hundred different opinions as to what a power leveler is I have only met a handful at most in 3 years of playing that I'd call a power leveler but then I'm what a lot of people would call an RP nazi so what do I know

[Mornox]

A powerleveler is anyone who trains skills, works quests, evaluates and analyzes the merits and weaknesses of the game better/faster than I do.

Naturally.

Meet a powerleveler?  Why would i wish to do that?  It's much more fun to disdain.

[theirah]

lol

well, my own definition of powerlevelers are those that are willing to exploit bugs, cheat, and so on to level up. that would include bugs, bots, buying accounts, and so on. and as for how many I've met, probably only one or two on planeshift. on runescape, on the other hand...

[Rayken]

A powerlever (In PS terms--I think what theirah describes is an older, more generic term) is someone who's leveling is not backed by RP and is done completely without a thought as to how their skills pertain to and are derived from their character.  While I am all about encouraging more RP, I do think we tend to overuse the term.

[SerqFeht]

I hate thinking of this as RP vs. Powerlevers. Many good rpers powerlevel at some time. In fact nearly everyone does it at some point, to some extent. I define it as training yourself hours on end, neglecting virtually everything else. Yes, mine is a universal viewpoint, but again, I don't think of it as a conflict of interests. Just as a temporary mode of playing. If that's all you do, you're still in the same catagory, just at the most extreme of it.

In other words, if you eat hamburgers, you are a hamburger eater. If you eat them every day, you are still a hamburger eater. Mmm, hamburgers...

[Rayken]

If you eat hamburgers and nothing else, you will die of malnutrition.  If you level and do nothing else, you will die of boredom.  It's all about finding a balance.

[Duraza]

Firstly I want to say I have nothing against leveling. I actually think a good rper is one who rps skills based on the skills they have (which makes me a bad one in my mind  )

I think a powerleveler is one who tries to master all aspects of the game, "beating" the game in their own heads, with no character based reason. In other words they level for "player" satisfaction when one should consider rp and level for not only "player" satisfaction but "character" satisfaction.

In the end theres a lot of different ways to take powerleveling though...If I say its someone who wants to the best one would counter with what if my character wants to be the best amd so on. Not any one way to give powerleveling an effective loophole free definition in my opinion.

[Farren Kutter]

PLer = Someone who does nothing but level when on the game.

Powerleveling and being a powerleveler however are two different things. Powerleveling is just training to get your character strong, powerlevelers just thrive on the training and advancing. Heck I'm the most against powerleveling and the most for enforcing RP, and even I PLed for 5 days straight once, resulting in 50 levels of sword gained

I think Rayken has the best comment

If you eat hamburgers and nothing else, you will die of malnutrition.  If you level and do nothing else, you will die of boredom.  It's all about finding a balance.

PLers are those who ONLY do leveling and have no RP reasoning or even any RP at all.

PLing is going for any larger amount of time of purely training without RP interaction. Such as like a day or so.

[theirah]

so...how many powerlevelers do you meet in a day, going by your own definitions?

[Martine]

A Pler is someone who level faster than me
A Rper is someone that I need a dictionary to understand him.

[Ralleyon]

Powerlevelling?

• Analyzing every aspect of the game and game-mechanics to use levelling scheme more efficiently.
• Working to achieve singular goals in the same PS fashion as always: get PP -> get money -> train level. Preferably continuously without distractions.

I've been there too, done the same thing. But when I had to choose between a roleplay or a powerlevelling session, I mostly chose the roleplay.