That's cool. In the short time I went to college (who needs a degree, I thought stupidly), I bounced from engineering to math to computer science. I've always liked playing with the numbers.
I didn't mean to sound ungrateful for your spreadsheet, so I'm sorry if I came off that way. I've used (stolen) some of the layout details to make mine look better (I was never good at presentation).
As far as the second equation, I'd think there'd *have* to be more than the first equation. The first equation doesn't take current skill level into account: just what your INT/WIS is, if there's a INT/WIS penalty, what level of difficulty the tradeskill is, and whether or not you successfully combined. If it was only that equation, leveling from, say, 175-200 would be just as fast as 1-25. That doesn't mean the 2nd equation is the same as that posted, just that there has to be more than equation #1.
I'm sorry to hear you quit the server. If its not fun, then yeah, you definately shouldn't look back. I don't have nearly the time I did when I played live, so I haven't really run into any of the high end stuff here that seems to be have been the problem.
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