06-29-2004, 06:06 PM
Hi,
Actually, my implication was that social players who have high-level characters will slow down to help their friends keep up,
Which has nothing to do with either the price of fish nor the rest system.
I was interested to see that the low-level characters were being played apart from the group in an effort to level and "catch up" more quickly.
Well, that is about the only way they *can* catch up. If they play with the group, then everybody gets experience. They can narrow the gap but not close it.
So, if everyone in practice (as opposed to theory) is, as you say, staying at the same rest level and gaining the same degree of experience per unit of time, then the low-level characters will gradually catch up to the higher-level ones.
No. Look, it is true that going from, say, 10 to 11 is easier than going from 20 to 21. So what? If a level 10 and a level 20 start out together and each plays the same, it might be that the 10 will get to 20 in the same length of time the 20 will only get to 24 (just pulling numbers out of the hat). But now, the new 20 has to play that same length of time *again* to get to 24. So your argument is flawed that way.
It is doubly flawed because it has *nothing* to do with the rest state. If the two play different amounts, then there are two cases:
The guy starting at 20 plays more: he will slowly pull away from the guy starting at 10. Rest state slows him down a bit but not enough to matter.
The guy starting at 10 plays more: he will slowly catch up, but the rest state will cause him to take *longer* to catch up.
So, again, as a means of catching up, the rest state *at best* does no harm.
--Pete
Actually, my implication was that social players who have high-level characters will slow down to help their friends keep up,
Which has nothing to do with either the price of fish nor the rest system.
I was interested to see that the low-level characters were being played apart from the group in an effort to level and "catch up" more quickly.
Well, that is about the only way they *can* catch up. If they play with the group, then everybody gets experience. They can narrow the gap but not close it.
So, if everyone in practice (as opposed to theory) is, as you say, staying at the same rest level and gaining the same degree of experience per unit of time, then the low-level characters will gradually catch up to the higher-level ones.
No. Look, it is true that going from, say, 10 to 11 is easier than going from 20 to 21. So what? If a level 10 and a level 20 start out together and each plays the same, it might be that the 10 will get to 20 in the same length of time the 20 will only get to 24 (just pulling numbers out of the hat). But now, the new 20 has to play that same length of time *again* to get to 24. So your argument is flawed that way.
It is doubly flawed because it has *nothing* to do with the rest state. If the two play different amounts, then there are two cases:
The guy starting at 20 plays more: he will slowly pull away from the guy starting at 10. Rest state slows him down a bit but not enough to matter.
The guy starting at 10 plays more: he will slowly catch up, but the rest state will cause him to take *longer* to catch up.
So, again, as a means of catching up, the rest state *at best* does no harm.
--Pete
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