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Originally Posted by Seteris [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Humans don't level 20% faster, Iksars level 20% slower which means human level 25% faster (100/80=1.25) compared to Iksar.

It makes sense to think of "percent faster" and "percent slower" as ratios rather than additive or subtractive quantities. Multiplication and division are inverses of each other, so x * 1.2 / 1.2 = x. 20% faster means multiplying by 1.2. 20% slower means dividing by 1.2. So, using either term is correct.

To be specific, the experience required per level is 20% more for Iksar (eg, 1200 XP to get to level 2) or 20% less for humans (eg, 1000 XP to get to level 2). 1000 * 1.2 = 1200. 1200 / 1.2 = 1000.

The reason that you're getting a weird result is that you're doing it half as a ratio and half as additive / subtractive. That is, you wouldn't get 100 and 80 because that's subtracting 20, not dividing by 1.2.

If you want to see the numbers and play with them yourself, you can check out this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...usE/edit#gid=0