Experience distribution and penalties, does the wiki need an update?

[Shaakglith12194]

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?