Valkon
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The group I was exploring and advancing with had reached their 20s by Sunday of the 2nd weekend. Undone appeared in chat and said something along the lines of "wtf 20 already, should I reduce xp?". As a group we did not feel that we were leveling too fast when progressing via on-level mobs. I wound up conversing with Undone in a private chat. I recommended that the level range for "green" mobs be reduced as it seemed that we feasted on Meadowlands even though they were many levels below us -- mainly for the flux, not so much for the exp mind you, the exp was a bonus. I don't know if it was the lack of quills or what, but we didn't rest between kills, we just non-stop mass slaughtered them. By comparison, it was necessary to rest up after killing white/yellow mobs and only one at a time.
After some philisophical and design back and forth, I restated that I thought the issue was with green mobs (the bunnies specifically). I also passed along the group's feeeling that on-level progression felt good and gave an impression of achievment whereas the low greens did not. Undone thanked me for my feedback and we left it at that. Later, Undone sent me a tell that he'd reviewed the code and he may have discovered an issue with the exp calcs for green mobs and thanked me again.
So 1) next patch we may see progression slowed if you are relying on very low green mobs to advance and 2) Undone works too hard and needs a raise
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-- Knoon, aka Boon, Woon, Soon, Valkon
After some philisophical and design back and forth, I restated that I thought the issue was with green mobs (the bunnies specifically). I also passed along the group's feeeling that on-level progression felt good and gave an impression of achievment whereas the low greens did not. Undone thanked me for my feedback and we left it at that. Later, Undone sent me a tell that he'd reviewed the code and he may have discovered an issue with the exp calcs for green mobs and thanked me again.
So 1) next patch we may see progression slowed if you are relying on very low green mobs to advance and 2) Undone works too hard and needs a raise
-- Knoon, aka Boon, Woon, Soon, Valkon