Fleurs and Krakii on the officials

[Taernath]

Isn't more XP it's own reward?

Let me rephrase

If Simu wanted to benefit everyone without pissing off anyone, they should give the top 25 wealthiest a bonus in their bank account to reflect the extra silver they pulled in during the contest.

You want to give the 25 most prolific experience earners an extra experience bonus for being so good at getting experience?

It's classic game theory. Yeah the top earners make more xp the harder they work, but they are expending a lot more effort (and resources if you're feeding gem bounties) to do so while everyone else gets the same rewards.

[Jhynnifer]

It's classic game theory. Yeah the top earners make more xp the harder they work, but they are expending a lot more effort (and resources if you're feeding gem bounties) to do so while everyone else gets the same rewards.

As opposed to not putting in the effort and getting less experience. Maybe it's not really a reward for doing well, but an incentive?

[Fallen]

When a game starts feeling more like work or a chore, people tend to stop playing. From everything i've seen of the process of maximizing XXX, it wouldn't fit my definition of fun.

[Tisket]

Put me down for a Team Fleurs t-shirt.

[Wyrom]

I think the biggest thing that gets lost with this Lumnis Contest is the fact that the top earners never earn that much every week. Some never earned that much ever. In fact, the top 25 don't usually even hit the average (20844) every week. I realize the point can be made that it is feasible. But yeah...

[chalion]

1) Everyone agrees that to max out experience potential its just unfun gameplay. This is something that may or may not need to be addressed.
2) The apparently difference between prime and plat is that plat apparently came together and fed gems and waivers to people who had the logic enhancives to try and max out and make it easier on them to do so. To my knowledge, nothing like that happened in prime. If it did, would the top earners still complain after being given gems etc during that 6 hour period to achieve highscores?
3) The concept of lumnis itself is a bonus that many people now feel entitled too. You aren't losing any experience you earned because you didnt "earn" bonus experience. The experience you "earned" is the normal pulse and in no way shape or form being adjusted with these changes. Its funny how quickly people just pass up that fact to scream socialism etc while happily accepting their free obama experience.

[BigWorm]

Methais considering you have zero characters in the top 50 and you never try to maximize your Lumnis, I'm not sure why you think you have any expertise to offer here. I think you may also overestimate Fleurs' contribution as I think her entry for her main was good but not particularly amazing since I nearly matched her (#14) and I don't consider my entry to be close to maximally optimal.

Due to real life stuff, I didn't start my contest attempt until the morning of the last day and didn't do a very good job of preparing (e.g. started lumnis belled, only had enough skins saved for a handful of bounties, no stockpiled herbs), and I was able to get three characters (none of which are burghals) in the top 50. I was actually a pretty surprised that my third character made it in the top 50 as he had no logic enhancives and I was sacrificing his pulses to use him as a gopher for the other two. I am not sure why you think it "requires a fuckton of silver" as I spent zero and finished above the average.

As someone who did usually try to get a lot of my Lumnis before the changes and who finished above the average in the contest, I consider this a very positive change because I no longer feel like I need to go out of my way to alter my playstyle every week to maximize my exp gains. I often join the nightly capped Reim group, and I would sometimes skip an outing if I was on Lumnis because it wasted a lot of pulses off node. Now I don't have to care about that and with zero effort I get more exp than I did before the changes.

Sorry if you are butthurt by facts. I also think it is pretty rich that you complain about snowflakes when you are one of the top crybabies on the officials.

[crb]

That isn't even comparable, unless the average of the top 50 bank accounts is given to everyone.

Free experience is being given out? Where do I sign up?

My understanding is that they used this "contest" to set the upper range of a curve on which the judge the difference between a casual player and the hardcore player. Lest you forget, if you ever even knew, that XXX was not created to allow players to earn more experience, especially power hunting players. It was created to allow casual players to keep up with power hunters. Period.

No one is getting any experience for free. You still have to hunt, heal, pick boxes. Experience modifiers everyone already gets are being adjusted on a curve now instead of on a straight scale.

If you're a person who has problems with reading comprehension and you read the release of this new way of determining the "experience gap" and thought that you were going to win a prize for hunting your ass off, you're an idiot. No such offer was made, expecting one reeks of entitlement.

Simutronics simply provided a leaderboard and a list to prey upon the innate need many humans have to see their name in lights. It works on my children, they get their jammies on much quicker when I tell them it is contest. Congratulations, you were manipulated, but you're an adult so you should have recognized that.

In exchange for hunting your ass off you gained a shit ton of experience. This is your reward. If you regret doing so you have only yourself to blame, if you think to pout and threaten to try to get your way and say that fine, next time you won't hunt at all and won't even try. Well okay, enjoy your little tantrum, no one cares.

[crb]

3) The concept of lumnis itself is a bonus that many people now feel entitled too. You aren't losing any experience you earned because you didnt "earn" bonus experience. The experience you "earned" is the normal pulse and in no way shape or form being adjusted with these changes. Its funny how quickly people just pass up that fact to scream socialism etc while happily accepting their free obama experience.

Winner.

[Gelston]

Free experience is being given out? Where do I sign up?

My understanding is that they used this "contest" to set the upper range of a curve on which the judge the difference between a casual player and the hardcore player. Lest you forget, if you ever even knew, that XXX was not created to allow players to earn more experience, especially power hunting players. It was created to allow casual players to keep up with power hunters. Period.

No one is getting any experience for free. You still have to hunt, heal, pick boxes. Experience modifiers everyone already gets are being adjusted on a curve now instead of on a straight scale.

If you're a person who has problems with reading comprehension and you read the release of this new way of determining the "experience gap" and thought that you were going to win a prize for hunting your ass off, you're an idiot. No such offer was made, expecting one reeks of entitlement.

Simutronics simply provided a leaderboard and a list to prey upon the innate need many humans have to see their name in lights. It works on my children, they get their jammies on much quicker when I tell them it is contest. Congratulations, you were manipulated, but you're an adult so you should have recognized that.

In exchange for hunting your ass off you gained a shit ton of experience. This is your reward. If you regret doing so you have only yourself to blame, if you think to pout and threaten to try to get your way and say that fine, next time you won't hunt at all and won't even try. Well okay, enjoy your little tantrum, no one cares.

.... What? Do you even ready what you are replying to before you go off on some giant rant and then say someone is throwing a tantrum? Never mind, I forgot how retarded you are.