yeah i screwed up, but there's a suggestion in it!

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since i'm now part of the "no really I swear I must have just forgot to pause my script" club, i can say it definitely sucks more to be high level and get your -15k exp penalty than if you're a newbie.

right now, it'll take me 125 hours to recover exp. a newbie would take a little under 17 hours. heck, even ignoring newbies, the average amount of setback for the average player (ie: the 10 exp drain ones) is only 50 hours. i dread what happens if someone gets a penalty at 100, because that's 250 hours of setback.

since it gets harder and harder to gain exp as you gain levels, the penalty gets more and more severe, and i don't think that was really intended.

it would be nice if the penalty is reassessed in terms of how far it sets you back. maybe make it a sliding scale that goes by absorbtion after the penalty is applied so everyone is set back 50 hours in terms of how much they would drain.

so a level 1 guy would lose 45k exp, the 10 exp draining stretch people lose 15k, and the level 100 people would lose 3k.

that way, everyone is punished for 50 hours (or whatever hours you decide) worth of drain time, as opposed to the way it is right now where the punishment for even the first afk penalty is amazingly severe for someone who has been around longer.

being pushed back a full week of exp drain just encourages me to fill my pool and forget about it even moreso, and while i don't think you should cater to people who screw up (ie: me), i don't think people who made their first mistake should be so severely discouraged from actually being active in the game at all.
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A bright-eyed Thekko Ku Kalla dressed in a dapper sailor suit takes to flight and careers through the air toward the Modan Kucho and slams into him!
With a high-pitched cry, The Modan Kucho collapses in death.

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and, uh, while i hate to possibly screw myself over even moreso, i do find it slightly unfair that the exp penalty is also sliding on how really severe it can be.

today i was already at -5, so it isn't a big deal. that, and the xp penalty ticker is going to reset in a little over a day.

if i screwed up tomorrow after the ticker reset, i'd be at -5 for the whole month, which is a lot more notable since i wasn't even at -5 to begin in the first place.

that gives a 37.5k exp difference in punishment between the first case and second case, as well.

i also just want to point out that i'm not against afk scripting punishments and i did screw up here so it makes sense for me to get one, but i also don't think that makes me amazingly biased in how the punishment system is set up because it isn't like i intend to get one anytime soon again.
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A bright-eyed Thekko Ku Kalla dressed in a dapper sailor suit takes to flight and careers through the air toward the Modan Kucho and slams into him!
With a high-pitched cry, The Modan Kucho collapses in death.

[zamde]

<repeated suggestion for experience grant for 100+ level players in new skill/experience system>
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[Tylen]

The penalty doesn't get more severe. Well... assuming that the lower level player eventually turns into a higher level player instead of getting bored/frustrated and quitting.

Still, my proposed "solution":

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[HR-Rikiar]

Not that I don't believe this was an accident and likely a one time thing for your Yaru. However, that being said, older players should know better. Nuff said. I also don't think the tracker is advanced due to a warning, but I could be wrong on that.
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[HR-Faith]

I just tested it on my test guy and it definitely does NOT advance the tracker.

You have gained experience for 0 hours since the last tracker reset. You have no experience penalty. The next reset will occur in 11 hours, 58 minutes, and 39 seconds.
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[Tylen]

No, in the long run it really doesn't matter whether you get caught scripting at a low or high level.
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