SP nerfed. We were lied to.

[Emonzaemon]

Nothing has been removed. A mindlessly repeatitive activity requiring too little effort has been rebalanced in order to reduce mindless repetition. Other, more cost/risk/reward effective activities are still in place as they were before. New activities have been given rewards.

In the end the curve remains unchanged.

By the way, what "everyone" are you talking about?

But Abriael, why would a developer want to give you MORE tasks to do than just one single repetitive exploit? God, I can't imagine he'd want you to, I don't know.. Have fun, would he?

I don't see how nit picking and mathematically picking apart the system makes him a liar still, the man said you'd still be able to level up fast, he didn't necessarily say that you would be able to level up just as fast doing the same thing as you did in previous patches, he said (and I quote) "The simple and emphatic answer to this, just as I posted in the forums, is no."

That means, that's the short term undefined response. It doesn't say that he's going to nerf any amount specifically, it doesn't mean he's going to completely unchange anything specifically, he's simply saying no without any elaboration. He didn't directly say what was going to be changed and unchanged, he just said that the actual process of gains would still be a fair pace, not that it wouldn't get slightly slower or slightly longer. He chose his words well imo, but people like you take them out of context because even the slightest difference means the end of the world (because it does to you, you for some reason felt betrayed by an answer that wasn't even fleshed out in detail)

Also by saying "I don’t want there to be a huge loss of skill points imposed for dying, or for players to have to grind 5–6 hours a day for 8 months to get to the high ranks." he's actually done that, because if people are saying around 4 to 5 hours of play gets you a rank, and there are only 50 levels, even if you took 2 days per level, that's still only 100 days, and that is not 8 months.