I just don't have the stomach for a trip to the motherboards, would you explain this one?
As usual Ash being a half of a fanboi himself decided to misinterpret the exchanges, here it is, btw using the fucking link next time.
Toxxxyk wrote
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Instead, you should recalculate the xp, so that if I'm 90% done level 25, when I log in after the expansion, I'm 90% done level 25. There are no downsides to this over what you've proposed.
Since a couple of people have brought this up:
There is a major downside to this proposal: Players are strongly incentivized to stop playing DDO right now, this instant, because this unfairly rewards XP to those who happen to have stopped getting XP at a particular time/level.
Under this proposal, anyone who has exactly enough XP to gain level 22 should probably stop playing, especially if they think they won't hit level 23 before Update 29 comes out (maybe stop playing today, maybe in a week, etc.), or maybe get some alts up to exactly level 22 (or 21 or 23 or whatever breakpoint you think makes sense). Otherwise they are "wasting their time" because instead of playing they could just wait and get "free XP" for choosing to not play DDO.
While we will probably consider a more gently sloped curve, the same issue is likely to be there in some form. There's really no world in which we want to explicitly reward not playing the game. (Considering it's entirely fair to ask each character to earn the same amount of XP to earn the same levels, ultimately, we're willing to deal with the downsides, which we do recognize as being real downsides.)