Removal of HQ makes maxing out certain gathering leves impossible

I am currently working through the botanist leve set, and while working toward the levequest Paper Minds, discovered that the math under the new system does not add up.

Each evaluation of the Exquisite Softwood Lumber yields a maximum of x3 score, no matter how many items are obtained.

Each base node has a maximum of x6 attempts, with a small chance of getting x8.

Thus, each base node can provide a maximum score of 18. There are 8 nodes. The total sum of the base amount of score you can get is 144.

Ageless Words can be used to grant an additional attempt, worth another x3 each. And you might get lucky and get the +2 bonus on a tree, but I have not yet seen it.

Even if you manage to get a bonus +2 on EVERY NODE, and you get the Exquisite Softwood every time, that's still a maximum score of 192.

Since the chance of triggering Pioneer's Gift on these is 0, and using other methods of getting additional logs doesn't increase the evaluation, the score system (likely a holdover from the old HQ bonuses) is impossible to achieve.

The bonus score ranges from 286-320. With the max attainable score even if you got lucky or spent the GP for +2 on every node being 192, there is no way to even get above 200, let alone 286.

To Fix: Please make sure that either the scores are adjusted on these types of levequests, or change them to be impacted by the quantity, since quality no longer exists.

EDIT: After completing the Level 85 version of this Levequest, "Beet it", I found that the quality score had doubled (I was getting 6 per log instead of 3.) So the change was made such that doing a level 80 levequest at too high of a level does not give the full rewards, but this is not communicated clearly in the levequest dialog, only that the recommend level for this was +1.

So not a bug, working as intended, but clearer communication of "hey this is impossible hit any of the bonuses if you are overleveled" would be helpful....

Being overleveled has always had this effect. The score is a product of the difficulty. When items are easy to gather, you get a low score for it. Higher score is granted for riskier attempts.