I side with Tsiregal on this.
Back when cats were really useful (and rare) at the high levels, I always turned them off when approaching a level, not because I was worried about "wasting" xp, but in order not to waste catalysts! That no longer applies.
If it's a matter of a few numbers changed and a server reboot, that's cool. Any more effort than that is a waste of dev time imho.
Consider: On the average, the so-called "waste" is a fraction of an action. All things being equal, it will average out to half an action. The way levels work, that "waste" is *less* than half an action's worth on the next level.
Less than one half action, that's all. The only place that might be a significant fraction of a next level is in Silan, and the number of actions in Silan that net the user 3K points is very *very* small (and I say that because I've never seen one, but there's always a possibility that I missed one). That means that the "waste" is only a few hundred xp.
If someone is worried about a few hundred xp, they aren't going to stick with this game anyway.
"Fair" = "all players are treated the same", not "all players are treated the way you would like them to be treated."
Back when cats were really useful (and rare) at the high levels, I always turned them off when approaching a level, not because I was worried about "wasting" xp, but in order not to waste catalysts! That no longer applies.
If it's a matter of a few numbers changed and a server reboot, that's cool. Any more effort than that is a waste of dev time imho.
Consider: On the average, the so-called "waste" is a fraction of an action. All things being equal, it will average out to half an action. The way levels work, that "waste" is *less* than half an action's worth on the next level.
Less than one half action, that's all. The only place that might be a significant fraction of a next level is in Silan, and the number of actions in Silan that net the user 3K points is very *very* small (and I say that because I've never seen one, but there's always a possibility that I missed one). That means that the "waste" is only a few hundred xp.
If someone is worried about a few hundred xp, they aren't going to stick with this game anyway.
"Fair" = "all players are treated the same", not "all players are treated the way you would like them to be treated."
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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