Experience Awards

[SirArtemis]

well here's the thing... experience, overall, likely doesn't matter. However, at lower levels, that 100-200 is more relevant to leveling, so it has more significance. It's not that my stories overall are going to change as I level up more, though obviously I'll be able to do more... "extreme" things. My main thing, to be honest, is customization. Customizing my weapons and armor with enchants, names, higher quality materials and such is not permitted at lower levels. So, it's nice to develop your character as you level up. I'm not against the process, by any means, but at lower levels, your experience is already limited because of your level. So.. yeah.. i have nothing left to contribute. the mods are likely taking care of it.

[Tainted Bushido]

Let me just say you certainly have gotten our attention. Already we have a discussion going in the mod forums that, before it exploded with Rayse's attempt to skew information in a favorable light, was on par with this thread's activity. We are looking into it, it's just a matter of if things will change drastically, and how much...

[SirArtemis]

Let me just say you certainly have gotten our attention. Already we have a discussion going in the mod forums that, before it exploded with Rayse's attempt to skew information in a favorable light, was on par with this thread's activity. We are looking into it, it's just a matter of if things will change drastically, and how much...

given that it's being talked about, then there's nothing more i can ask for. it's probably best to just close this thread. the agenda has been reached and mods will make their own decision.

[Letho]

well here's the thing... experience, overall, likely doesn't matter. However, at lower levels, that 100-200 is more relevant to leveling, so it has more significance. It's not that my stories overall are going to change as I level up more, though obviously I'll be able to do more... "extreme" things. My main thing, to be honest, is customization. Customizing my weapons and armor with enchants, names, higher quality materials and such is not permitted at lower levels. So, it's nice to develop your character as you level up. I'm not against the process, by any means, but at lower levels, your experience is already limited because of your level. So.. yeah.. i have nothing left to contribute. the mods are likely taking care of it.

See, the thing is in order to customize your weapons and accessories and upgrade them, you can either get them as a spoil for a completed thread or buy it in the Bazaar using money you get from completing threads. So regardless of which you opt for, level is not as significant to the customization and completing more threads actually benefits you. As it stands now it takes, what, like three of four decent threads to get to the first level? I think that's well balanced. Gives you enough opportunity to get some loot and develop your character before you level up.

[Hysteria]

I like the current system, if only because word counts a harder to count than posts. However something like this comes up and I am not sure if word counts might be more nessicary, even if its just a guideline saying something like "Consider the amount of words making each post when deciding the post count".

[Tainted Bushido]

That thread was done as a project. It was to show it's not even possible when pulling stuff out of your bum, typing with your butt on the keyboard and attempting to FAKE your way to a score of a 1.

[Hysteria]

It also shows that doing say, four of those threads (taking maybe 15min?) would give you more xp than a normal solo.

[Letho]

Not really, because only an idiot of a judge would actually award EXP for something like that. That's where the discretion would kick in. Duffy listed the rewards more as a joke. At least I hope so. :P

[Duffy]

Disclaimer. No experience will be awarded for the completion of the talented epic And One (AKA 'SHOotz')...

As Letho pointed out, it was a joke to highlight various issues with discretion, post count and let's face it...I only gave it a 10 because I was laughing so hard when reading it.

[SirArtemis]

well if anything, we're at an advantage here because we have a small and dedicated group of forum judges and moderators who all want what is best for the website. I have faith that they will come up with the best solution, even if it doesn't fit everyone's wants and needs.

Don't let the desire for perfection take away appreciation of a near perfect product.