I'm pretty torn on the subject. i like the purist idea of trying best to recreate what was, but at the same time "what was" was actually a complete ignorance of the hybrid exp penalties and their effects on party exp. if they existed, no one actually knew, so it never really impact their perceptions or playstyle. It was only awhile after showEQ popped up that people started looking so deeply at the code and such and realized the penalty was shared with the party. For the life of me I can't recall how much time elapsed between between hybrids being exp pariahs after showEQ outed them and verant/sony actually ameliorating the issue.
in any event, I think i lean towards the exp penalty existing but having no influence on party exp rate. This both contradicts "how it was" and "what eventually happened", unfortunately.
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