look here is a letter from 2001:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/edit...rs_letter.html
they made some changes to experience in this one, but you can extract some stuff from it.
From what I can gather on live before this letter at least, hybrids had a 40% penalty, monks 20%, and int caster 10%. rogues and warriors had an experience bonus. The letter didn't state what the class bonus for rogues and warriors was, but it was either 5% or 10%.
Okay, hybrids 40%, monks 20%, int caster 10%. No other class had a penalty, and rogues and warriors had a bonus. Oh yeah, bards counted as a hybrid.
Now as far as races go. Big races had a penalty. Trolls had the worst. Then ogres. Then barbs. I'm not sure what the troll penalty was but it was like 10 or 20% or something. I know barbs were 5% and I think ogres were as well.
No other original race had a penalty, though I might add that halflings got the xp bonus of 5% that was supposed to go to humans. And they have kept it for all of live. They said it was some kind of error in database coding way back and it would be too "disruptive" to fix it. Although they never stated in anyway that the human xp bonus hinted at in their game info was really going to halflings, until the show eq people found it.
Now as far as I know this game is supposed to be like eq 1999.
Exactly.
Your guess is as good as mine, but if they actually gave halflings the xp bonus that was supposed to go to humans, I am going to rofl.
It'd be like a cargo cult.