I've read several posts here that say Regional and Local leves have differnet allotments but I've been playing for several days now without doing a crafting leve but allotment is still zero and seems to be linked to the Regional ones. Did this get changed or am I doing something wrong perhaps?

I realize that once I'm out of leves I need to "grind" if I want to level more, my question is whether or not there are any type of "xp boots" to facilitate this process besides the 3% from eating any random food.

Thank you