Disable ``Experience'' in WOA?

[The Beatles]

The experience calculation has its benefits, such as favoring long-standing accounts to newly-created ones; it is also rather realistic.

However, its benefits which don't accrue too heavily over the short-term, become downright harmful in the long-term. And on a server that never resets, they can skew the game much too heavily.

An alternative is to cap experience points at double your normal offense/defense, on all servers.

[Turock]

Maybe the server needs to reset periodically.

[Slasher]

Reset every year?

[The Beatles]

I'm strongly opposed but let's see what others think.

[Freenhult]

Yes, I disagree as well. If experiences is capped, and market storing becomes less of an issue, it doesn't really matter how long the game goes. Mainly because everything will even out after a while.

If we're going to do a reset, then I want to make sure people will come and play, otherwise its not even worth it. I would also like to see the game start to go towards a new direction, but we have winter break to talk about that. Hopefully we can get a general idea of what we want to do, and then announce it by the first of the year, but that could be far to soon.

I should round y'all up and force ya to talk.

[Gen. Volkov]

I like the cap idea, makes the most sense to me.

[Turock]

Why does the cap make most since?

Also why is everyone so against a reset every so often?

Seems to me if the games all get reset periodically then all the issues of this topic would be solved.

[Devari]

WOA was meant to be something of a semi-permanent server, I guess. Still, if/when we start enacting some major gameplay changes, it might be wise to restart the server, much like RWL only restarted with major version changes.

[Gen. Volkov]

Well one, WoA was supposed to be permanent, no resets unless big changes in game. Secondly, even though almost no one plays, if we reset, the playerbase would be embarrassingly small, and the land would not grow.

Also, for me personally, I like being able to leave my account for extended periods of time, it allows me to have a life. To correct the whol experience thing, a cap would be most useful for the situation we have right now.

[Freenhult]

Your enemy captured 960,746 acres and destroyed:
# 5,844,244 Swordsman

You managed to destroy:
# 2,669,867 Swordsman

This happened on MM. I got own'd because someone had 2x my number. I had 2x as many mice as them. I never realized how bad it is. Srsly...thats bleeding overpowered.