So I've come across this post from Absor replying to Mage Compendium question about pets and xp in groups.
Note that this is
before the changes to Pet XP were proposed to deal with Dire Charm etc (those were announced in June 2002).
Quote:
posted 03-11-2002 10:16 AM
Hello.
I have an update, rather a correction, on one of the answers to the questions that the Mage Compendium folks sent in.
I was just informed by Scott Hartsman that I made a mistake about the pet experience thing. Pets only take experience from a group if they outdamage the entire group. If they do, then they gain a share as if they were a group member. If they do not, they take no experience at all.
This is how it's been working the whole time, and it makes a lot more sense. I'm sorry for the mistake.
Alan
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http://web.archive.org/web/200308191...ML/000514.html
This is consistent with the newsgroup posts up above.
It seems that after January 2000 or so, Verant changed the network protocol to only send fractions of the XP bar instead of raw XP numbers data, which accounts for the dearth of ShowEQ data from after that time.