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![]() I've seen people say things like "hybrid exp penalty is shared with the group, racial exp penalty does not" and complain about inviting bards or a ranger. According to http://wiki.project1999.com/Game_Mec...perience_Works that's not at all how it works. Has there been some update that has completely changed how experience works in this game? Is experience no longer distributed based on experience totals? That's the only way these kind of ignorant statements could be true. If so, please point me to the patch notes so I can educate myself. People seem to have absolutely no understanding of how experience is distributed and it can be frustrating trying to convince people that their understanding is incorrect when the wiki states 3 times in a row, "Group with people with similar xp totals to you" just to pound the lesson home.
"When the tasty pie is cut into slices for the group, the levels of the various PCs are not consulted (not directly anyway), only the xp totals for the PCs. The game code doesn't care if Bob is a human or an elf, a bard or a monk, level 10 or level 15... the game code only cares what Bob's total xp is." (Quote from the wiki link that I posted) tl;dr Are people just illiterate or has the way experience works actually been changed? | ||
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![]() most people are just incompetent - it works like you think
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![]() I'm so sick and tired of people being fucking stupid about this. I once answered this question in OT and some guy raged at me for 20 minutes. He insisted that I was lying to perpetuate a myth to get my Ogre SK to 60... when I explained that my SK was 60 and geared to the teeth anyways, he insisted I was just bulshitting everyone. Mind you, I was soloing on a 40ish wizard at the time... but I digress...
And people aren't illiterate so much as ignorant. They have this perception that there is a penalty and it's applied to the group and whatever-the-fuck-else they believe, like not looting corpses prevents mobs from respawning, that being out of food makes your invis drop sooner or my favorite that epic drops go to planar minis with release of epics or Velious. They refuse to listen to reason, will take ANY excuse at all to continue believing the myth but dispute even the most irrefutable proof of the truth. That asshole above that raged for 20 min? I told him about Dumesh's guide and he insisted it didn't exist, so I gave him the URL 4 times before he read it, he then insisted that I had fabricated it specifically to dupe him and the rest of the server into letting my toxic hybrid deny them their precious XP. I'm pretty sure he's still in the 30s or 40s; I sure am glad I haven't had a hybrid in that level range since 2011! There is an excellent, idiot-oriented guide to this on the Wiki (referenced by the OP!), but it is a bit hidden if you don't know where to look. You can read it here, or here (bolding is not copied from original, but added by me for emphasis): Quote:
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Last edited by uygi; 01-19-2014 at 03:09 AM..
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![]() I completely understand your frustration, uygi, and I've heard the "racial exp penalty doesn't apply to group" line so many times that I had to wonder if the way experience works had completely changed. A cleric once joined my group and instantly sent me a tell saying "you're welcome for sharing your exp penalty", as if I was supposed to thank him. Even after politely informing him that according to the wiki, his understanding of experience was misinformed, he repeatedly insisted that he had read the wiki and that it was my understanding that was incorrect. Un-freaking-believable. I don't hate my 68% exp penalty, I hate players who are vocal about their ignorance of exp penalties. These are the same kind of people who, 10 minutes into grouping with me, will rave about how great my class is at getting and holding aggro quickly, while throwing in another line about my exp penalty nerfing their experience. Meanwhile, they don't mind the three iksar monks that are in the group. I never see the ignorance stick waved in their direction, despite having one of the worst exp penalties in the game.
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![]() What's great about the forums is they're a big source of knowledge for people... and that misinformation can spread like wildfire [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Funny how nobody picks up on the iksar monk penalty isn't it? Min/maxers gonna hate 24/7. | ||
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