Quote Originally Posted by crb View Post
No, you said that my analogy of giving the richest people even more silver (which is accurate) would only hold true if we were talking about giving everyone the average of the 50 largest bank accounts.

Considering no one is being given a gift of free experience your analogy is false.

Lumnis was implemented to allow casual players to keep up with power hunters. It was a flat amount, but doing it as a dynamic system would really be best. There are things that occurred after it's implementation, such as the bounty system, that sped up experience gain further for power hunters.

Hunting pressure is a good example of a dynamic system, the more a creature is hunted, the less treasure it has.

So GMs felt the static Lumnis system wasn't keeping up, and they felt that a dynamic system would perform better, but to truly know how much help the casual player needed they needed to know how much experience the power hunter was getting. So they devised this little "contest" to measure that value.

They're now adjusting the modifier in a dynamic way to achieve the predefined ratio they have in their head of the competitiveness of the casual player vs the power hunter.

No one is being given free experience, no one is having experience taken away from them. This system now works very similar to how the hunting pressure works, only more individualized. The less you hunt, the more you get per kill, which was always the intention.

Saying you want those top power hunters to have every more experience because they're so good at getting experience is like saying you want someone getting the most treasure to get even more treasure because they're so good at getting treasure which is not the same thing as saying give every player the average of the 50 largest bank accounts in game.

This need not be so complicated, think on it thoroughly.
Where once did I say anyone was being given free experience? I look back and realize you were probably trying to pretend Methais was saying the stuff you had in italics though. We're arguing the same bullshit.