Question on race/class experience modifers

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Hey everyone, first I want to say this is the best thing that has ever been created.

With that aside I have been reading up on some of the classic mechanics, I played a bit of it on release but I was really young, and by that time Kunark was already being released. One this I found interesting was a post on eqemulator about this server. There were people talking about exp modifiers that are inherint to classes/races. There is a post by Nilbog that goes as follows...

As far as penalties are concerned, I responded in the other thread but not this one.

Here's a copy of the information


Code:
29 //experience modifiers based on race and class, used if USE_RACE_CLASS_XP_MODS is defined
30 // hum bar eru elf hie def hef dwa tro ogr hal gno iks, vah frog
31 float race_modifiers[15] = { 100.0f, 105.0f, 100.0f, 100.0f, 100.0f, 100.0f, 100.0f, 100.0f, 120.0f, 115.0f, 95.0f, 100.0f, 120.0f, 100.0f, 100.0f}; // Quagmire - Guessed on iks and vah
32
33 // war cle pal ran shd dru mnk brd rog shm nec wiz mag enc bst bes
34 float class_modifiers[16] = { 9.0f, 10.0f, 14.0f, 14.0f, 14.0f, 10.0f, 12.0f, 14.0f, 9.05f, 10.0f, 11.0f, 11.0f, 11.0f, 11.0f, 10.0f, 10.0f};

legend: if smaller numbers are faster exp, then halfling warrior is fastest!

So I guess my question is whether or not this is correct for the server. Nilbog mentioned that halflings would be the fastest but others noted that they (and rangers) are supposedly the slowest levelers..not the fastest. This is crucial for me because I want to make a paladin but I am skeptical to start one if they level at ~2/3 the pace. Also I want to solo but my suspicion is that the server is overpopulated with casters, but again this is just speculation and may not be the case.