Lets talk about the exp system

[banok]

Do people actually like how it works right now?

The basic premise of it was cool. I like the lore texts and the little music that plays, but in terms of current gameplay I think the system works completely the opposite to how exp gain was intended to be.

Playing the game normally means you will never get much experience, but constantly seeking to trigger new events and chain them allows people to really game the system and get oodles of exp.

Once you get an event if you intentionally seek a new one by running through a list of things such as: right click a willow, pick something up, etc. you are very likely to immediately trigger another event. So you can get a chain going.

Its not like people who aren't gaming the system like this are running out of exp, its more an issue of people playing the game in such a arbitary fashion are getting ahead. You can bet alot of people are autostudying mirkwoods since world start.

Sorry JLo, I think you might need to go back to drawing board with this system. Its both unintuitive and tedious. What do other people think?

[Lunarius_Haberdash]

Playing the game normally means you will never get much experience, but constantly seeking to trigger new events and chain them allows people to really game the system and get oodles of exp.

What the hell are you talking about? I'm playing 'normally' and have about 18k experience. Even stringing offerings I can't kill the XP I get. O.o

[banok]

I guess 2 peoples versions of normal can be very different, but I never study mirkwoods for like 1 month and I was steady 1k-2k despite playing 10 hour days and doing all sorts of stuff. after I started doing a bit of intentionally right clicking willows and such, its up to like 4-5k.

[Tamalak]

As cool as the xp system is, it probably should have been hidden to prevent people from accumulating checklists.

Should have no pop ups, no exp display, and if you try to study something you don't have xp for the error message should be "go play the game"

Jorftar could then periodically rotate what actually gives xp.

[venatorvenator]

Do people actually like how it works right now?

The popups were really neat, they add soul to the game. It's really nice that now we also get to see words and not just numbers.

But as far as I know it was implemented to also prevent curio bots and slow down the LP grind. Is that working? Not at all.

The system definitely needs to be reworked to slow down char progression. That shouldn't be done now though, it would create a huge gap between new players and already botted factions. W9 world reset please

[Avu]

I also noticed that the alt factory prevention is not really working. My suggestion is acumulate hidden xp charges while playing and doing activities and if you then intentionally go through the checklist or just play the game get them easy. If you're an alt that only logs to switch curios no luck you can right click them willows 200 times no go.