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@surreality said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

Jesus, people. Share with the class, if there are examples.

That the examples exist is not going to make the place that banned the cause of those examples look bad, after all.

I have no logs. But as I gather it: dude was harassing at least one female character, got banned. Dude immediately started logging back on through VPN and paging Apostate with juvenile insults, including the one referenced above, because dude clearly has not got a lot of imagination. Decided to come here and post his witty bon mot for...some reason. End of story, I'd expect.

@Roz The idea that anyone is even able to contemplate getting level 6 skills is, in itself, crazy to me, and a sign that maaaaybe XP has gotten out of hand.

@Lisse24 said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@Pyrephox said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

That said, the XP situation is crazy. I mean, that's been known (and mentioned, even in this thread, I think) for months. Some people regularly get 30/40+ XP a week, and maximize it with use of the very generous teaching system, and I know several characters with 5+ skills at 5 (the highest you can go without being actively supernatural in ability) and 3+ stats at 5.

I'd be lying if I said that this perception and my own perception that I just didn't have the time/desire to keep up, wasn't a major factor in my leaving. It's really disheartening to log in and, week after week, see people getting massive XP gains, while knowing that I'll never be able to do that.

It can be. I've long since come to terms with the fact that my character will never be able to compete on XP gains (or spends, for that matter, since I don't find teaching/learning scenes very fun in a general sense, and thus choose not to use the teaching system), just due to matters of my own availability and my character's personality.

And having come to terms with that, I can find a fair amount of fun, even knowing that statistically speaking, my character is far, far behind others (even significantly newer characters) because I don't fully use the systems available, or spend my time hunting down randomscenes or seeking out the big, social scenes. And, to be fair, current policies do allow new characters to 'catch up' with dinos if you don't mind a flood of people trying to randomscene and firstimpression you in your first couple of weeks.

But for a game that is still, as I understand it, supposed to be at a low fantasy stage, we have a looot of folk who could put Conan in a headlock until he cries, etc. And that's likely not sustainable going forward, while still maintaining an environment where people can be useful in a variety of contexts.

I will say some of the newer mechanics do HELP with the meaningful issue of XP Bloat (which is 'can some characters contribute so much more than others that lesser XP characters are rendered obsolete'), especially AP. Have AP as a limited resource that everyone has an equal amount of (although some uses of AP are modified by stats) helps to keep the high XP folks from dominating everything. Some of it leads to a certain artificialness in trying to justify why you can't look into something highly relevant because you're out of +storyrequests for the month (and I would love to see that removed in favor of a scaling AP cost, although it might put too much of a burden on staff), but it still means that even the most dino-y dino has an initiative to find people who will be willing to Do Stuff on your behalf.