Well my argument to the whole 500k/1h double exp is that it no longer requires
massive amounts of time to climb up in the food chain. Newbies might not gain
the full bonus but hey - its still double exp - a good bonus to your daily
work.

And I remember doing exp with lvl 30-45 char but dunno what has gotten into
the game (massive tunes ?) but even with my eq I suck more than average hooker
on a friday night when I take the pain-in-the-ass reinc and go soloing, which
STILL IS the LEADING choice for NEWBIES since there aren't too many fucking
newbies around to party with

It might just be me, but I've a feeling (and I started from scratch w/o even
eq 1.5years ago) that the mudding is even harder for lov lvl chars (yes yes
you can explore your way up) but the base of the game which is, as I checked
recently, is KILLING MONSTERS - and don't know why but for low level (30-50)
char it seems harder than before. Perhaps its the dam, str, hpmax etc tunes
which have hit the low lvl chars harder than you might have expected, and
without even some knowledge of the game you'll end up doing 500exp/h rate. For
them, the double-exp hour is a major kick in the ass until they learn the
game.
AND nowadays people might not be patient enough to spend DAYS of REAL TIME
before they start to get in the game since there are far more attractive
options available today than there were 10 years ago. Whacking a telnet
console for hours and not understanding a bit of it isn't a real bonus at
3d-age.

And of course you can rape and rape and rape those 1-3k mobs infinitely until
your lvl 100000 with 10 gigs of exp but at least _I_ prefer killing larger
mobs even though it means less rate, but its a hell of alot more fun and
challenging.

\o/

Cilwand raapusti:
It might just be me, but I've a feeling (and I started from scratch w/o even
eq 1.5years ago) that the mudding is even harder for lov lvl chars (yes yes
you can explore your way up) but the base of the game which is, as I checked
recently, is KILLING MONSTERS - and don't know why but for low level (30-50)
char it seems harder than before. Perhaps its the dam, str, hpmax etc tunes
which have hit the low lvl chars harder than you might have expected, and
without even some knowledge of the game you'll end up doing 500exp/h rate. For
them, the double-exp hour is a major kick in the ass until they learn the
game.


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you are correct. I suppose the real reason for this is that now there are more
players doing the same mobs and last time I checked ALL the monsters lvl 30-45
average newbie can solo were in just shitty tune. (This is because of several
higher level players prefer for various reasons to kill lots of small monsters
for exp)

You can all figure the reasons for this out yourselves.