EXP IS SO SLOW!

[fastboy21]

The Group Exp Penalties change is a classic example (pun intended) of something that was in classic and was not a good idea. Eventually, in SoV, the devs changed this because they got saw the problem of groups rejecting certain classes because of it.

My comments:
1. This is a classic server, so in the pure mission of the server it should be included.
2. This change will make the server "more classic".
3. This change will disgruntle many players for a variety of reasons.

Over all, I think this change does more bad than good to the community. While it certainly makes the server more classic, it is going to have a greater net negative impact on groups and individuals.

I also think, from a fair-play point of view, that it is not the most fair decision to spring this major change on the community without discussing it first.

I was very impressed with the community discussion regarding keeping/removing the global channel. The dev team here, in that case, actually did a better job of communicating, discussing, and explaining the change than any PAID mmo I have ever played. I recall thinking, even though I was on the side of the debate to keep OOC, that I understood and felt included in the dialog well before the change took place and, therefore, felt fine about the change when it finally came.

With this change, I feel like it was just thrown at the community. It's your play pen so I respect the right for you to change what you like whenever you like, but it would have been a good thing for the community for you to have handled it more like the global chat channel example imo.

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On top of all that, I also think you have gotten the formula wrong/coded it wrong. I was grped for 3 hours last night in MM at gy, and got 4 blues during that whole time. I recall 1 hour per blue only going from 59 to 60. We were pulling and killing the entire time. There is something wrong here. Was this tested well enough and long enough? Did the GM who made the changes sufficiently tap the community as a resource to make sure the new calculation was accurate?

It feels like this was a quick shot from the hip...and its wayyyy too important to implement that way.