Look at it like this, considering you want max profit per level:
Solo: You have to kill all monsters and have to collect all the loot.
Party: You do not have to kill all monsters, but you still have to collect all the loot.
It still goes faster in a party. Now, shut up and party!
(This doesn't consider increased HP from bigger parties, but that doesn't seem to make a big enough difference when you have 4 Blitz knights.)
Nope. You still get all the Minerals from a party. And you need all the minerals you can get for your little shoulder-cannon.
Actually, with elevator costs removed that's no longer as big of a concern. I'm no longer worried about making enough money to cover my elevators, and am actually quite a bit more likely to skip sections of levels in the arcade in order to run more levels per minute, which in turn will give more profit per minute.
Bonus points to anyone who is actually running at one level per minute. That's impressive.
Considering monsters dont flinch nearly as often now, blitz spam isnt as good anymore; a team of 4 blitz doesnt kill as fast when enemies have x4 health on top of that in elite difficulty :v
Also, while the mineral bit IS a good reason to party up, so far only 1 party I've been up has had people rushing in, wasting their emergency revive and staying there while the rest of the team mop up, say "I dont have a spark of life, pls rev" and revive on their own immediately as soon as we find boxes or are about to reach the elevator.
Even worse when the other 3 guys do that at the same time :\
Bonus point to anyone who is actually running at one level per minute. That's impressive.
That's not impressive. That's impossible.
Right. A party of four faces monsters with about twice the health of the monsters that a solo knight faces, but the party has four times the offensive power, so it should be more efficient.
More importantly, running in a party gets you more minerals...unless that's changed?