I just get concerned about content from small teams. Leveling, hell levels, minimum number of retards needed to kill raid boss, all that "classic" stuff that Verant/989 used to take advantage of to give themselves breathing room to complete projects ... The audience for this game will be super sensitive to any kind of duplicitous shit like that. But fk it, at least its something else on the table, available to play. Fuck, its not like WoW is putting out a ton of content with the launch of entire expansions anymore, either.
A bunch of stuff in EverQuest was created by that same thought process. Feign Death splitting for example. Thats not to say it didnt work in their benefit - because if they didnt want hell levels, they would have removed them much sooner.
Im saying that I dont give a shit if it was an accident, a freak flip of the switch in coding or who gives a shit? Im literally saying that hell levels, a minor fucking thing being nit picked about, worked in their benefit. My reply was to go so far as to mention fucking feign death splitting a camp wasnt fucking intended either, and look how that turned out. For fucks sake.
I believe you but I'd be curious how they coded it such that every 5 levels after 25 was somehow much longer than the levels inbetween it!
They admitted it, no? The internal XP was originally for total XP, and you had formula for total XP needed to get to level N, since you could go up or down in levels at any time.
