Inter-Level Experience Reset - A Possible Solution

[Souljacker]

Just throw a hash map at the problem, ya? CompSci 101.

I gotta say, I'm with you on this one. It doesn't seem like their explanation really tracks, so either it's not the real problem they are facing or they had already decided this was how they were handling it no matter what. Either way, we're losing the xp.

[Krojack]

IMO, resetting the experience bar back to 0% of the current level is an extremely small price to pay.

Even if I had a job at 90% though level 79 and it got reset to 0% I wouldn't care. It takes no time at all to get that level anyways. Hell, you can get little over half of that level being afk 70% of the time in an MSQ Roulette.

If people care that much then push all your jobs just over the line now and your loss will be almost nothing.

[Equitable_Remedy]

IMO, resetting the experience bar back to 0% of the current level is an extremely small price to pay.

Even if I had a job at 90% though level 79 and it got reset to 0% I wouldn't care. It takes no time at all to get that level anyways. Hell, you can get little over half of that level being afk 70% of the time in an MSQ Roulette.

If people care that much then push all your jobs just over the line now and your loss will be almost nothing.

This is the actual answer, but this kind of reasonable response has no place on the internet.

[Anonicat]

This is the actual answer, but this kind of reasonable response has no place on the internet.

Yes this is the actual responswe. But I felt like delving into CS stuff.

[RitsukoSonoda]

They're likely recalculating the entire exp value scaling through the whole chart along with the amounts earned from the game's activities. Individually scaling partial progress shouldnt be too much of an issue. But when it's an inconsistent value that has to be done seperately for every job, on every character, on every datacenter, for every account it adds up.

In the end I don't expect any change in speed to how fast we lvl up.

[Arrhin]

I expect the reasons for the reset are not likely anything more than time and money. We're talking about a team that is stretched to the breaking point that is already dealing with what is likely a laundry list of last minute issues (2 week delay?). We've got hardware shortages affecting server roll outs on top of all that. I'm not educated nor experienced in the field but I have some experience managing very large projects and sometimes things just don't make the cut. Must do. Should do. Nice to do. It just didn't make the cut.

[Jpec07]

I expect the reasons for the reset are not likely anything more than time and money. We're talking about a team that is stretched to the breaking point that is already dealing with what is likely a laundry list of last minute issues (2 week delay?). We've got hardware shortages affecting server roll outs on top of all that. I'm not educated nor experienced in the field but I have some experience managing very large projects and sometimes things just don't make the cut. Must do. Should do. Nice to do. It just didn't make the cut.

That’s true, and I hadn’t thought of that perspective. Depending on what issues they’re hammering out, it’s entirely possible they may not have the 3-4 hours it would take to implement something like this.

[MistakeNot]

That’s true, and I hadn’t thought of that perspective. Depending on what issues they’re hammering out, it’s entirely possible they may not have the 3-4 hours it would take to implement something like this.

3-4 hours only if you skip testing. For something like this it would require thorough testing. Updating the character database is something that just isn't allowed to go wrong. So add a few days (at least) for testing.

[SomeRandomHuman]

Solution: Just make sure you have as close to 0 exp on a level as possible by the 1st. Problem solved with no issue on ether end.

Spending days to try to fix about 1-2 hours of grinding otherwise is a colossal waste of time. Sure, it's fun to think how it could be addressed, but the above solution is just the easiest possible method.