Monster Evolution Difficulty Proposal

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Seeing that the server has been empty or nearly empty all month, I think this may be a good opportunity to do some drastic changes regarding the experience distribution. I also like to make the server more forgiving to new players. To tone down the difficulty, I propose the following changes:

Experience Distribution: Experience is no longer received at a per individual basis. Instead, if one player receives an experience point, everyone in the team receives an experience point. This will also eliminate the need for threat levels. Since weaker offensive classes no longer need to compete against the berserker's superior offense, we can eliminate the threat system altogether, and everyone will have max threat.
I plan to leave experience triggers and resurrection events alone where dead players may receive different exp rewards than survivors, and players' level may influence the experience gain. We can change that system later, but right now, I just want to concentrate the experience gained from monsters.
I also plan to change the scoreboard to show player's health and level instead of experience. Edit: After consideration, I was thinking leaving the scoreboard as is for the time being.
You'll still gain monster tokens from each team exp received. This will open up the more powerful player monsters early on.
Regarding weapon masteries, I can see two directions with this system. We can either have the masteries shared where if one player damages a monster with a rocket launcher, all players will have increased explosive mastery. This should also increase the experience requirement for each mastery level. The other approach is at a per individual basis, but the mastery requirement is significantly less.

Inflate the experience value: Bigger numbers appears to be more rewarding. Each monster should give more experience, but also the level requirement is increased.

Decrease the level requirement for later levels: It should require fewer map iterations to reach the next level. Instead of playing the same map 5 times for a level up, you should be able to level up once per hour (post rank II).

Increase the max level to 250: Due to lighter population, this makes some maps such as Divine Fortress and Robot Factory impossible to beat. Increasing the max level will bring a stronger arsenal to the battlefield, and increase incentive to keep playing after level 200 (especially since it'll be significantly easier to reach level 200).

Unlimited Friendly Monster Tokens: Keep dead players active, and provide unlimited supply of friendly monsters.

Reduce the cooldown for friendly monster spawning: Keep dead players active, and allow them to respawn often as friendly monsters (this will also apply to hostile monsters if the hostile monsters remain). I also propose the individual monster cooldowns, too. I don't propose reducing the monsters' score requirement since the experience values are likely to be inflated, and many monster score requirements are also configured at a per map basis.

Remove hostile player monsters: To make it easier for new players to adapt to the server, I propose we remove hostile player monsters. This also applies to dedicated monsters.

Server Reset: I'm still uncertain about this one. On one hand, people (including myself) will not be happy about starting over. On the other hand, a full reset will provide a great opportunity to try out the new experience values, and rebuild characters accordingly to the new setup (ie: remove monster abilities, increased level cap, threat oriented abilities, etc...). This will also give the server a clean slate. Resetting all map records are also considered.

Feedback is greatly appreciated. These are not final, and are open for discussion. I'd like to get to a conclusion by the time the Mechanic class comes out.

Edit: Added more details regarding experience distribution.
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Here you got feedback from burek, hes too lazy to make an account here:
that's some interesting changes
but to be honest, i'm not so sure all of it would work out
experience distribution: one super strong player would be killing everything while everyone else would camp in safe spot. Lets take AS-Cubes for example. One zerk can rush through map and every low lvl can just afk at the starting point.
It might work if a damager (xp bringer) would get full xp and distributed xp would be a bit lower (idk, maybe 50% or bit less) to prevent them from afk-ing.
Could say the same for weapon masteries, although i would rather lvl masteries as individual, to force players to cooperate in playing rather than afk-ing somewhere behind.
Dunno what inflating xp value would change. For me it's horrible to just look at large numbers.
I completely aggre with decreasing lvl requirement for later lvls. Most players barely reach r4, and give up due to too long lvling all the way to max lvl.
I don't mind increasing max lvl, especially if these are gonna be reached easier than now.
Remove hostile player monsters: but that's what it makes server interesting! although it slows down the map progression.
In other invasion or assault servers, you're stuck to one team (unless you keep switching teams for trolling), but on this one you can play on the opposite (monsters) team and make gameplay more tense.
I don't mind server reseting. But i'm not so sure how other players would react to it. Some have put loads of time into lvling their chars.
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Here are some feedback I received when discussing this on the server, E-mail, vent, and one case over the phone:

Distributed Experience
Majority of the people I spoke with are in favor of the new experience distribution system. Here are the common concerns:
Weapon Masteries: Of the few people that brought this issue, they seem to favor individual weapon masteries exp reward where if one player receives an experience point for a weapon mastery, only that player will receive the experience point for their mastery. This will encourage participation. The concern regarding individual weapon masteries exp reward is that it may be more difficult to max out weapon masteries. The solution to this concern is to not increase the weapon mastery cap. If the players are by default at max threat, then it should be much easier to max out their weapon masteries. If the experience is inflated, then I will also inflate the weapon mastery's experience requirements.

Idlers: If players can receive experience by camping the spawn, then players may not have the incentive to go out there and participate in the assault. Here's my proposed solution to this issue. Fix the idle kicker. Increase number of spectator slots to 3. Provide infinite friendly player monster tokens with very little cool down (many players often go idle when they're slain). And tighten rules regarding idling if the idle kicker isn't sufficient enough. Of course this isn't bullet proof, but there's little difference when playing objective experience driven maps such as Heated Escort.
There's another type of idler where the player is active, but not really participating in the assault (for example using the server as a chat room). There's not much I can do about this one, and if this is their idea of playing on Monster Evolution so be it. We can address this issue if the server population is competing for player slots. This will also become an issue if they stall the game (ie: other players waiting at progress volumes, or the active players are slain, and they wait for the chatters to join the battle).

Map Level Limiters: Currently high levels can only receive experience from hard maps. This brings a division in the player base when there are high and low levels. This is one of the reasons why people often play maps like Acatana where it provides experience to high and low levels despite that some players are tired of playing the same maps over and over.
The distributed experience system will not fix this issue, and they advise to remove the map level limiters altogether. The only issue I can see regarding removing the level limiter is that it provide very little reason for players to play the easy (low exp giving) maps. But after consideration, I think I'll prefer giving the players the choice of any map than restricting the experience reward to the minority. This will make the easy maps unpopular, but those maps still serve a purpose in case there isn't a high level around.
On a technical note, I'll need to update some maps if I were to remove the level limiter. Maps like Heated Escort and Divine Fortress relies on the level limiter to prevent players from gaining experience from damaging monsters. The monsters' score value are greater than 0 to allow abilities such as Life Siphon and Energy Leech to kick in when the monsters are damaged. Removing the level limiter would cause maps like Divine Fortress to give players experience for damaging monsters.
Let me know if you're against removing the level limiter system.

Inflated Experience
I received little to no feedback regarding this proposal. My guess is that people are indifferent about this. I guess there isn't a need to inflate the values.

Decreased experience requirement for later levels
People are generally in favor of this.

Increased level cap
People are generally in favor of this.

Removing hostile player monsters
It seems that people are generally against this. Here are the issues that were brought up.
Idlers: If there are two players, and one of them is idling, then the server will most likely get stuck (especially if there's a team progress volume). If the active player is slain, they can't do anything about the idler. There aren't enough players to trigger a map vote or a kick. With the hostile player monsters, they could at least spawn as an enemy, and slay the idler to end the map. I'm hoping the new idle kicker fix will prevent this from happening. Additionally, I can possibly allow weak hostile player monster to combat this scenario. This may cause confusion in which monster(s) are available though.

Losing part of the Server: Some people like being a hostile monster, and will be sad seeing hostile pms going away. I personally like the hostile player monsters for that enabled very interesting encounters. However this system is very fragile to unfair encounters. An Ion dragon or a Carcharodontosaurus usually means that the player with the high score will get to slay a teammate for another life. This scenario often creates tension and hostility between the players which causes me to favor removing the hostile player monster system.

Conflicting with the infinite friendly monsters: Having the hostile player monsters system may conflict with the new infinite friendly monster changes. Individual player monsters share a cool down timer to prevent multiple powerful monsters from spawning too quickly. For example, using an enlightened will disable the enlightened monster for all players for the next few minutes. I was proposing to significantly reducing the monster cool down to keep dead players active, but doing so may potentially cause a hostile player monster to spawn as a powerful monster every time.

Disables player monster appearances: Some monsters (such as the face hugger, bombing air drone, titan, and Tyrannosaurus) are only available to hostile player monsters since those monsters are typically too powerful to be against the AI monsters. Disabling hostile player monsters will also prevent players from ever playing as those monsters. My solution to this argument is to allow weaker versions of monsters to be played as friendly player monsters (excluding the bomber and huggers).

Server Reset
Although some people are in favor of this, people are generally against this for a variety of reasons. I'll most likely not do this.
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I've decided against the Distributed XP system for the following reasons:
  • Difficulty in increasing weapon masteries.
  • Increases difficulty to repopulate the server. More players leads to more xp. However, if the server is empty, then it'll be much more difficult to bring more players since it'll be much slower to farm xp when soloing.
  • High levels could bring easy experience to low levels without having the low levels learning the game.
  • Further bias towards map based on their xp distribution. Certain maps are played based on their difficulty relative to the general player level. But with the distributed xp system, the maps that give the most PPH from the best player will most likely be chosen. This would reduce map selection range significantly.
Next update, I plan to increase the max level to 250. I've also decided to reduce the difficulty to level up. I'll need feedback to see if the new level up thresholds sound worth trying out. See lists below.
I'll also reduce the weapon masteries' requirements based on the ratio between the old and new exp thresholds.
The player monster changes are discussed in a different thread.


Here are the current experience thresholds for leveling up:
Level | Required XP
2 | 10
3 | 12
4 | 14
5 | 16
6 | 18
7 | 20
8 | 23
9 | 26
10 | 29
11 | 32
12 | 36
13 | 40
14 | 45
15 | 50
16 | 55
17 | 60
18 | 66
19 | 72
20 | 78
21 | 85
22 | 92
23 | 100
24 | 108
25 | 116
26 | 125
27 | 134
28 | 143
29 | 152
30 | 161
31 | 170
32 | 180
33 | 190
34 | 200
35 | 296
36 | 392
37 | 488
38 | 584
39 | 680
40 | 776
41 | 872
42 | 968
43 | 1064
44 | 1160
45 | 1256
46 | 1352
47 | 1448
48 | 1544
49 | 1640
50 | 1736
51 | 1832
52 | 1928
53 | 2024
54 | 2120
55 | 2216
56 | 2312
57 | 2408
58 | 2504
59 | 2600
60 | 2696
61 | 2792
62 | 2888
63 | 2984
64 | 3080
65 | 3176
66 | 3272
67 | 3368
68 | 3464
69 | 3560
70 | 3656
71 | 3752
72 | 3848
73 | 3944
74 | 4040
75 | 4136
76 | 4232
77 | 4328
78 | 4424
79 | 4520
80 | 4616
81 | 4712
82 | 4808
83 | 4904
84 | 5000
85 | 5096
86 | 5192
87 | 5288
88 | 5384
89 | 5480
90 | 5576
91 | 5672
92 | 5768
93 | 5864
94 | 5960
95 | 6056
96 | 6152
97 | 6248
98 | 6344
99 | 6440
100 | 6536
101 | 6632
102 | 6728
103 | 6824
104 | 6920
105 | 7016
106 | 7112
107 | 7208
108 | 7304
109 | 7400
110 | 7496
111 | 7592
112 | 7688
113 | 7784
114 | 7880
115 | 7976
116 | 8072
117 | 8168
118 | 8264
119 | 8360
120 | 8456
121 | 8552
122 | 8648
123 | 8744
124 | 8840
125 | 8936
126 | 9032
127 | 9128
128 | 9224
129 | 9320
130 | 9416
131 | 9512
132 | 9608
133 | 9704
134 | 9800
135 | 9896
136 | 9992
137 | 10088
138 | 10184
139 | 10280
140 | 10376
141 | 10472
142 | 10568
143 | 10664
144 | 10760
145 | 10856
146 | 10952
147 | 11048
148 | 11144
149 | 11240
150 | 11336
151 | 11432
152 | 11528
153 | 11624
154 | 11720
155 | 11816
156 | 11912
157 | 12008
158 | 12104
159 | 12200
160 | 12296
161 | 12392
162 | 12488
163 | 12584
164 | 12680
165 | 12776
166 | 12872
167 | 12968
168 | 13064
169 | 13160
170 | 13256
171 | 13352
172 | 13448
173 | 13544
174 | 13640
175 | 13736
176 | 13832
177 | 13928
178 | 14024
179 | 14120
180 | 14216
181 | 14312
182 | 14408
183 | 14504
184 | 14600
185 | 14696
186 | 14792
187 | 14888
188 | 14984
189 | 15080
190 | 15176
191 | 15272
192 | 15368
193 | 15464
194 | 15560
195 | 15656
196 | 15752
197 | 15848
198 | 15944
199 | 16040
200 | 16136

Here are the values I'd like to try out.
2 | 10
3 | 12
4 | 14
5 | 16
6 | 18
7 | 20
8 | 23
9 | 26
10 | 29
11 | 32
12 | 36
13 | 40
14 | 45
15 | 50
16 | 55
17 | 60
18 | 66
19 | 72
20 | 78
21 | 85
22 | 92
23 | 100
24 | 108
25 | 116
26 | 125
27 | 134
28 | 143
29 | 152
30 | 161
31 | 170
32 | 180
33 | 190
34 | 200
35 | 260
36 | 320
37 | 380
38 | 440
39 | 500
40 | 560
41 | 620
42 | 680
43 | 740
44 | 800
45 | 860
46 | 920
47 | 980
48 | 1040
49 | 1100
50 | 1160
51 | 1220
52 | 1280
53 | 1340
54 | 1400
55 | 1460
56 | 1520
57 | 1580
58 | 1640
59 | 1700
60 | 1760
61 | 1820
62 | 1880
63 | 1940
64 | 2000
65 | 2060
66 | 2120
67 | 2180
68 | 2240
69 | 2300
70 | 2360
71 | 2420
72 | 2480
73 | 2540
74 | 2600
75 | 2660
76 | 2720
77 | 2780
78 | 2840
79 | 2900
80 | 2960
81 | 3020
82 | 3080
83 | 3140
84 | 3200
85 | 3260
86 | 3320
87 | 3380
88 | 3440
89 | 3500
90 | 3560
91 | 3620
92 | 3680
93 | 3740
94 | 3800
95 | 3860
96 | 3920
97 | 3980
98 | 4040
99 | 4100
100 | 4160
101 | 4220
102 | 4280
103 | 4340
104 | 4400
105 | 4460
106 | 4520
107 | 4580
108 | 4640
109 | 4700
110 | 4760
111 | 4820
112 | 4880
113 | 4940
114 | 5000
115 | 5060
116 | 5120
117 | 5180
118 | 5240
119 | 5300
120 | 5360
121 | 5420
122 | 5480
123 | 5540
124 | 5600
125 | 5660
126 | 5720
127 | 5780
128 | 5840
129 | 5900
130 | 5960
131 | 6020
132 | 6080
133 | 6140
134 | 6200
135 | 6260
136 | 6320
137 | 6380
138 | 6440
139 | 6500
140 | 6560
141 | 6620
142 | 6680
143 | 6740
144 | 6800
145 | 6860
146 | 6920
147 | 6980
148 | 7040
149 | 7100
150 | 7160
151 | 7220
152 | 7280
153 | 7340
154 | 7400
155 | 7460
156 | 7520
157 | 7580
158 | 7640
159 | 7700
160 | 7760
161 | 7820
162 | 7880
163 | 7940
164 | 8000
165 | 8060
166 | 8120
167 | 8180
168 | 8240
169 | 8300
170 | 8360
171 | 8420
172 | 8480
173 | 8540
174 | 8600
175 | 8660
176 | 8720
177 | 8780
178 | 8840
179 | 8900
180 | 8960
181 | 9020
182 | 9080
183 | 9140
184 | 9200
185 | 9260
186 | 9320
187 | 9380
188 | 9440
189 | 9500
190 | 9560
191 | 9620
192 | 9680
193 | 9740
194 | 9800
195 | 9860
196 | 9920
197 | 9980
198 | 10040
199 | 10100
200 | 10160

If I increase the max level to 250, the new values would look like this:
200 | 10160
201 | 10220
202 | 10280
203 | 10340
204 | 10400
205 | 10460
206 | 10520
207 | 10580
208 | 10640
209 | 10700
210 | 10760
211 | 10820
212 | 10880
213 | 10940
214 | 11000
215 | 11060
216 | 11120
217 | 11180
218 | 11240
219 | 11300
220 | 11360
221 | 11420
222 | 11480
223 | 11540
224 | 11600
225 | 11660
226 | 11720
227 | 11780
228 | 11840
229 | 11900
230 | 11960
231 | 12020
232 | 12080
233 | 12140
234 | 12200
235 | 12260
236 | 12320
237 | 12380
238 | 12440
239 | 12500
240 | 12560
241 | 12620
242 | 12680
243 | 12740
244 | 12800
245 | 12860
246 | 12920
247 | 12980
248 | 13040
249 | 13100
250 | 13160
The difference between successful people from others is
not in the lack of strength,
not in the lack of knowledge,
but rather in the lack of will.

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Hmm nice, from what I see since lvl 34, you will need 60 more xp for each new lvl, To be honest I would make it 70 more from lvl 100, 80 from lvl 150 and 90 more from lvl 200 and above. Making the lvling too fast might bring boring times after ppl reach max lvl. Burek will have no problem to max his chars before year 2017 :D
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I'd prefer not to change the value based on the level since that defeats one of the main reasons why we're doing this. It becomes very time-consuming to level up the later levels, and we'll need to ease the growth rate.

For 70 xp per level, the new thresholds are:

Level | Req Exp
2 | 10
3 | 12
4 | 14
5 | 16
6 | 18
7 | 20
8 | 23
9 | 26
10 | 29
11 | 32
12 | 36
13 | 40
14 | 45
15 | 50
16 | 55
17 | 60
18 | 66
19 | 72
20 | 78
21 | 85
22 | 92
23 | 100
24 | 108
25 | 116
26 | 125
27 | 134
28 | 143
29 | 152
30 | 161
31 | 170
32 | 180
33 | 190
34 | 200
35 | 270
36 | 340
37 | 410
38 | 480
39 | 550
40 | 620
41 | 690
42 | 760
43 | 830
44 | 900
45 | 970
46 | 1040
47 | 1110
48 | 1180
49 | 1250
50 | 1320
51 | 1390
52 | 1460
53 | 1530
54 | 1600
55 | 1670
56 | 1740
57 | 1810
58 | 1880
59 | 1950
60 | 2020
61 | 2090
62 | 2160
63 | 2230
64 | 2300
65 | 2370
66 | 2440
67 | 2510
68 | 2580
69 | 2650
70 | 2720
71 | 2790
72 | 2860
73 | 2930
74 | 3000
75 | 3070
76 | 3140
77 | 3210
78 | 3280
79 | 3350
80 | 3420
81 | 3490
82 | 3560
83 | 3630
84 | 3700
85 | 3770
86 | 3840
87 | 3910
88 | 3980
89 | 4050
90 | 4120
91 | 4190
92 | 4260
93 | 4330
94 | 4400
95 | 4470
96 | 4540
97 | 4610
98 | 4680
99 | 4750
100 | 4820
101 | 4890
102 | 4960
103 | 5030
104 | 5100
105 | 5170
106 | 5240
107 | 5310
108 | 5380
109 | 5450
110 | 5520
111 | 5590
112 | 5660
113 | 5730
114 | 5800
115 | 5870
116 | 5940
117 | 6010
118 | 6080
119 | 6150
120 | 6220
121 | 6290
122 | 6360
123 | 6430
124 | 6500
125 | 6570
126 | 6640
127 | 6710
128 | 6780
129 | 6850
130 | 6920
131 | 6990
132 | 7060
133 | 7130
134 | 7200
135 | 7270
136 | 7340
137 | 7410
138 | 7480
139 | 7550
140 | 7620
141 | 7690
142 | 7760
143 | 7830
144 | 7900
145 | 7970
146 | 8040
147 | 8110
148 | 8180
149 | 8250
150 | 8320
151 | 8390
152 | 8460
153 | 8530
154 | 8600
155 | 8670
156 | 8740
157 | 8810
158 | 8880
159 | 8950
160 | 9020
161 | 9090
162 | 9160
163 | 9230
164 | 9300
165 | 9370
166 | 9440
167 | 9510
168 | 9580
169 | 9650
170 | 9720
171 | 9790
172 | 9860
173 | 9930
174 | 10000
175 | 10070
176 | 10140
177 | 10210
178 | 10280
179 | 10350
180 | 10420
181 | 10490
182 | 10560
183 | 10630
184 | 10700
185 | 10770
186 | 10840
187 | 10910
188 | 10980
189 | 11050
190 | 11120
191 | 11190
192 | 11260
193 | 11330
194 | 11400
195 | 11470
196 | 11540
197 | 11610
198 | 11680
199 | 11750
200 | 11820
201 | 11890
202 | 11960
203 | 12030
204 | 12100
205 | 12170
206 | 12240
207 | 12310
208 | 12380
209 | 12450
210 | 12520
211 | 12590
212 | 12660
213 | 12730
214 | 12800
215 | 12870
216 | 12940
217 | 13010
218 | 13080
219 | 13150
220 | 13220
221 | 13290
222 | 13360
223 | 13430
224 | 13500
225 | 13570
226 | 13640
227 | 13710
228 | 13780
229 | 13850
230 | 13920
231 | 13990
232 | 14060
233 | 14130
234 | 14200
235 | 14270
236 | 14340
237 | 14410
238 | 14480
239 | 14550
240 | 14620
241 | 14690
242 | 14760
243 | 14830
244 | 14900
245 | 14970
246 | 15040
247 | 15110
248 | 15180
249 | 15250
250 | 15320
The difference between successful people from others is
not in the lack of strength,
not in the lack of knowledge,
but rather in the lack of will.

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Hmm I guess its ok now. Btw burek said you have the first one wrong, its 80 per lvl now.
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Looking at the server config, you're right. My local setup was specified at 96, and the server's config was specified at 80.

Reducing the req exp value from 80 to 70 doesn't seem like it'll make that much of a difference. Should I try 60 instead?
The difference between successful people from others is
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not in the lack of knowledge,
but rather in the lack of will.

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I think 70 is ok. Oh one thing, on plenty of maps that are for r4, when you are lvl 200, you only get 199win xp(Xenomoporh,DragonTower for example), this could be annoying in future :D
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to compare required and total xp per level:
lvl | req xp [total xp] (80), req xp [total xp] (70), req xp [total xp] (60)
2 | 10 [10], 10 [10], 10 [10]
3 | 12 [22], 12 [22], 12 [22]
4 | 14 [36], 14 [36], 14 [36]
5 | 16 [52], 16 [52], 16 [52]
6 | 18 [70], 18 [70], 18 [70]
7 | 20 [90], 20 [90], 20 [90]
8 | 23 [113], 23 [113], 23 [113]
9 | 26 [139], 26 [139], 26 [139]
10 | 29 [168], 29 [168], 29 [168]
11 | 32 [200], 32 [200], 32 [200]
12 | 36 [236], 36 [236], 36 [236]
13 | 40 [276], 40 [276], 40 [276]
14 | 45 [321], 45 [321], 45 [321]
15 | 50 [371], 50 [371], 50 [371]
16 | 55 [426], 55 [426], 55 [426]
17 | 60 [486], 60 [486], 60 [486]
18 | 66 [552], 66 [552], 66 [552]
19 | 72 [624], 72 [624], 72 [624]
20 | 78 [702], 78 [702], 78 [702]
21 | 85 [787], 85 [787], 85 [787]
22 | 92 [879], 92 [879], 92 [879]
23 | 100 [979], 100 [979], 100 [979]
24 | 108 [1087], 108 [1087], 108 [1087]
25 | 116 [1203], 116 [1203], 116 [1203]
26 | 125 [1328], 125 [1328], 125 [1328]
27 | 134 [1462], 134 [1462], 134 [1462]
28 | 143 [1605], 143 [1605], 143 [1605]
29 | 152 [1757], 152 [1757], 152 [1757]
30 | 161 [1918], 161 [1918], 161 [1918]
31 | 170 [2088], 170 [2088], 170 [2088]
32 | 180 [2268], 180 [2268], 180 [2268]
33 | 190 [2458], 190 [2458], 190 [2458]
34 | 200 [2658], 200 [2658], 200 [2658]
35 | 280 [2938], 270 [2928], 260 [2918]
36 | 360 [3298], 340 [3268], 320 [3238]
37 | 440 [3738], 410 [3678], 380 [3618]
38 | 520 [4258], 480 [4158], 440 [4058]
39 | 600 [4858], 550 [4708], 500 [4558]
40 | 680 [5538], 620 [5328], 560 [5118]
41 | 760 [6298], 690 [6018], 620 [5738]
42 | 840 [7138], 760 [6778], 680 [6418]
43 | 920 [8058], 830 [7608], 740 [7158]
44 | 1000 [9058], 900 [8508], 800 [7958]
45 | 1080 [10138], 970 [9478], 860 [8818]
46 | 1160 [11298], 1040 [10518], 920 [9738]
47 | 1240 [12538], 1110 [11628], 980 [10718]
48 | 1320 [13858], 1180 [12808], 1040 [11758]
49 | 1400 [15258], 1250 [14058], 1100 [12858]
50 | 1480 [16738], 1320 [15378], 1160 [14018]
51 | 1560 [18298], 1390 [16768], 1220 [15238]
52 | 1640 [19938], 1460 [18228], 1280 [16518]
53 | 1720 [21658], 1530 [19758], 1340 [17858]
54 | 1800 [23458], 1600 [21358], 1400 [19258]
55 | 1880 [25338], 1670 [23028], 1460 [20718]
56 | 1960 [27298], 1740 [24768], 1520 [22238]
57 | 2040 [29338], 1810 [26578], 1580 [23818]
58 | 2120 [31458], 1880 [28458], 1640 [25458]
59 | 2200 [33658], 1950 [30408], 1700 [27158]
60 | 2280 [35938], 2020 [32428], 1760 [28918]
61 | 2360 [38298], 2090 [34518], 1820 [30738]
62 | 2440 [40738], 2160 [36678], 1880 [32618]
63 | 2520 [43258], 2230 [38908], 1940 [34558]
64 | 2600 [45858], 2300 [41208], 2000 [36558]
65 | 2680 [48538], 2370 [43578], 2060 [38618]
66 | 2760 [51298], 2440 [46018], 2120 [40738]
67 | 2840 [54138], 2510 [48528], 2180 [42918]
68 | 2920 [57058], 2580 [51108], 2240 [45158]
69 | 3000 [60058], 2650 [53758], 2300 [47458]
70 | 3080 [63138], 2720 [56478], 2360 [49818]
71 | 3160 [66298], 2790 [59268], 2420 [52238]
72 | 3240 [69538], 2860 [62128], 2480 [54718]
73 | 3320 [72858], 2930 [65058], 2540 [57258]
74 | 3400 [76258], 3000 [68058], 2600 [59858]
75 | 3480 [79738], 3070 [71128], 2660 [62518]
76 | 3560 [83298], 3140 [74268], 2720 [65238]
77 | 3640 [86938], 3210 [77478], 2780 [68018]
78 | 3720 [90658], 3280 [80758], 2840 [70858]
79 | 3800 [94458], 3350 [84108], 2900 [73758]
80 | 3880 [98338], 3420 [87528], 2960 [76718]
81 | 3960 [102298], 3490 [91018], 3020 [79738]
82 | 4040 [106338], 3560 [94578], 3080 [82818]
83 | 4120 [110458], 3630 [98208], 3140 [85958]
84 | 4200 [114658], 3700 [101908], 3200 [89158]
85 | 4280 [118938], 3770 [105678], 3260 [92418]
86 | 4360 [123298], 3840 [109518], 3320 [95738]
87 | 4440 [127738], 3910 [113428], 3380 [99118]
88 | 4520 [132258], 3980 [117408], 3440 [102558]
89 | 4600 [136858], 4050 [121458], 3500 [106058]
90 | 4680 [141538], 4120 [125578], 3560 [109618]
91 | 4760 [146298], 4190 [129768], 3620 [113238]
92 | 4840 [151138], 4260 [134028], 3680 [116918]
93 | 4920 [156058], 4330 [138358], 3740 [120658]
94 | 5000 [161058], 4400 [142758], 3800 [124458]
95 | 5080 [166138], 4470 [147228], 3860 [128318]
96 | 5160 [171298], 4540 [151768], 3920 [132238]
97 | 5240 [176538], 4610 [156378], 3980 [136218]
98 | 5320 [181858], 4680 [161058], 4040 [140258]
99 | 5400 [187258], 4750 [165808], 4100 [144358]
100 | 5480 [192738], 4820 [170628], 4160 [148518]
101 | 5560 [198298], 4890 [175518], 4220 [152738]
102 | 5640 [203938], 4960 [180478], 4280 [157018]
103 | 5720 [209658], 5030 [185508], 4340 [161358]
104 | 5800 [215458], 5100 [190608], 4400 [165758]
105 | 5880 [221338], 5170 [195778], 4460 [170218]
106 | 5960 [227298], 5240 [201018], 4520 [174738]
107 | 6040 [233338], 5310 [206328], 4580 [179318]
108 | 6120 [239458], 5380 [211708], 4640 [183958]
109 | 6200 [245658], 5450 [217158], 4700 [188658]
110 | 6280 [251938], 5520 [222678], 4760 [193418]
111 | 6360 [258298], 5590 [228268], 4820 [198238]
112 | 6440 [264738], 5660 [233928], 4880 [203118]
113 | 6520 [271258], 5730 [239658], 4940 [208058]
114 | 6600 [277858], 5800 [245458], 5000 [213058]
115 | 6680 [284538], 5870 [251328], 5060 [218118]
116 | 6760 [291298], 5940 [257268], 5120 [223238]
117 | 6840 [298138], 6010 [263278], 5180 [228418]
118 | 6920 [305058], 6080 [269358], 5240 [233658]
119 | 7000 [312058], 6150 [275508], 5300 [238958]
120 | 7080 [319138], 6220 [281728], 5360 [244318]
121 | 7160 [326298], 6290 [288018], 5420 [249738]
122 | 7240 [333538], 6360 [294378], 5480 [255218]
123 | 7320 [340858], 6430 [300808], 5540 [260758]
124 | 7400 [348258], 6500 [307308], 5600 [266358]
125 | 7480 [355738], 6570 [313878], 5660 [272018]
126 | 7560 [363298], 6640 [320518], 5720 [277738]
127 | 7640 [370938], 6710 [327228], 5780 [283518]
128 | 7720 [378658], 6780 [334008], 5840 [289358]
129 | 7800 [386458], 6850 [340858], 5900 [295258]
130 | 7880 [394338], 6920 [347778], 5960 [301218]
131 | 7960 [402298], 6990 [354768], 6020 [307238]
132 | 8040 [410338], 7060 [361828], 6080 [313318]
133 | 8120 [418458], 7130 [368958], 6140 [319458]
134 | 8200 [426658], 7200 [376158], 6200 [325658]
135 | 8280 [434938], 7270 [383428], 6260 [331918]
136 | 8360 [443298], 7340 [390768], 6320 [338238]
137 | 8440 [451738], 7410 [398178], 6380 [344618]
138 | 8520 [460258], 7480 [405658], 6440 [351058]
139 | 8600 [468858], 7550 [413208], 6500 [357558]
140 | 8680 [477538], 7620 [420828], 6560 [364118]
141 | 8760 [486298], 7690 [428518], 6620 [370738]
142 | 8840 [495138], 7760 [436278], 6680 [377418]
143 | 8920 [504058], 7830 [444108], 6740 [384158]
144 | 9000 [513058], 7900 [452008], 6800 [390958]
145 | 9080 [522138], 7970 [459978], 6860 [397818]
146 | 9160 [531298], 8040 [468018], 6920 [404738]
147 | 9240 [540538], 8110 [476128], 6980 [411718]
148 | 9320 [549858], 8180 [484308], 7040 [418758]
149 | 9400 [559258], 8250 [492558], 7100 [425858]
150 | 9480 [568738], 8320 [500878], 7160 [433018]
151 | 9560 [578298], 8390 [509268], 7220 [440238]
152 | 9640 [587938], 8460 [517728], 7280 [447518]
153 | 9720 [597658], 8530 [526258], 7340 [454858]
154 | 9800 [607458], 8600 [534858], 7400 [462258]
155 | 9880 [617338], 8670 [543528], 7460 [469718]
156 | 9960 [627298], 8740 [552268], 7520 [477238]
157 | 10040 [637338], 8810 [561078], 7580 [484818]
158 | 10120 [647458], 8880 [569958], 7640 [492458]
159 | 10200 [657658], 8950 [578908], 7700 [500158]
160 | 10280 [667938], 9020 [587928], 7760 [507918]
161 | 10360 [678298], 9090 [597018], 7820 [515738]
162 | 10440 [688738], 9160 [606178], 7880 [523618]
163 | 10520 [699258], 9230 [615408], 7940 [531558]
164 | 10600 [709858], 9300 [624708], 8000 [539558]
165 | 10680 [720538], 9370 [634078], 8060 [547618]
166 | 10760 [731298], 9440 [643518], 8120 [555738]
167 | 10840 [742138], 9510 [653028], 8180 [563918]
168 | 10920 [753058], 9580 [662608], 8240 [572158]
169 | 11000 [764058], 9650 [672258], 8300 [580458]
170 | 11080 [775138], 9720 [681978], 8360 [588818]
171 | 11160 [786298], 9790 [691768], 8420 [597238]
172 | 11240 [797538], 9860 [701628], 8480 [605718]
173 | 11320 [808858], 9930 [711558], 8540 [614258]
174 | 11400 [820258], 10000 [721558], 8600 [622858]
175 | 11480 [831738], 10070 [731628], 8660 [631518]
176 | 11560 [843298], 10140 [741768], 8720 [640238]
177 | 11640 [854938], 10210 [751978], 8780 [649018]
178 | 11720 [866658], 10280 [762258], 8840 [657858]
179 | 11800 [878458], 10350 [772608], 8900 [666758]
180 | 11880 [890338], 10420 [783028], 8960 [675718]
181 | 11960 [902298], 10490 [793518], 9020 [684738]
182 | 12040 [914338], 10560 [804078], 9080 [693818]
183 | 12120 [926458], 10630 [814708], 9140 [702958]
184 | 12200 [938658], 10700 [825408], 9200 [712158]
185 | 12280 [950938], 10770 [836178], 9260 [721418]
186 | 12360 [963298], 10840 [847018], 9320 [730738]
187 | 12440 [975738], 10910 [857928], 9380 [740118]
188 | 12520 [988258], 10980 [868908], 9440 [749558]
189 | 12600 [1000858], 11050 [879958], 9500 [759058]
190 | 12680 [1013538], 11120 [891078], 9560 [768618]
191 | 12760 [1026298], 11190 [902268], 9620 [778238]
192 | 12840 [1039138], 11260 [913528], 9680 [787918]
193 | 12920 [1052058], 11330 [924858], 9740 [797658]
194 | 13000 [1065058], 11400 [936258], 9800 [807458]
195 | 13080 [1078138], 11470 [947728], 9860 [817318]
196 | 13160 [1091298], 11540 [959268], 9920 [827238]
197 | 13240 [1104538], 11610 [970878], 9980 [837218]
198 | 13320 [1117858], 11680 [982558], 10040 [847258]
199 | 13400 [1131258], 11750 [994308], 10100 [857358]
200 | 13480 [1144738], 11820 [1006128], 10160 [867518]
201 | 13560 [1158298], 11890 [1018018], 10220 [877738]
202 | 13640 [1171938], 11960 [1029978], 10280 [888018]
203 | 13720 [1185658], 12030 [1042008], 10340 [898358]
204 | 13800 [1199458], 12100 [1054108], 10400 [908758]
205 | 13880 [1213338], 12170 [1066278], 10460 [919218]
206 | 13960 [1227298], 12240 [1078518], 10520 [929738]
207 | 14040 [1241338], 12310 [1090828], 10580 [940318]
208 | 14120 [1255458], 12380 [1103208], 10640 [950958]
209 | 14200 [1269658], 12450 [1115658], 10700 [961658]
210 | 14280 [1283938], 12520 [1128178], 10760 [972418]
211 | 14360 [1298298], 12590 [1140768], 10820 [983238]
212 | 14440 [1312738], 12660 [1153428], 10880 [994118]
213 | 14520 [1327258], 12730 [1166158], 10940 [1005058]
214 | 14600 [1341858], 12800 [1178958], 11000 [1016058]
215 | 14680 [1356538], 12870 [1191828], 11060 [1027118]
216 | 14760 [1371298], 12940 [1204768], 11120 [1038238]
217 | 14840 [1386138], 13010 [1217778], 11180 [1049418]
218 | 14920 [1401058], 13080 [1230858], 11240 [1060658]
219 | 15000 [1416058], 13150 [1244008], 11300 [1071958]
220 | 15080 [1431138], 13220 [1257228], 11360 [1083318]
221 | 15160 [1446298], 13290 [1270518], 11420 [1094738]
222 | 15240 [1461538], 13360 [1283878], 11480 [1106218]
223 | 15320 [1476858], 13430 [1297308], 11540 [1117758]
224 | 15400 [1492258], 13500 [1310808], 11600 [1129358]
225 | 15480 [1507738], 13570 [1324378], 11660 [1141018]
226 | 15560 [1523298], 13640 [1338018], 11720 [1152738]
227 | 15640 [1538938], 13710 [1351728], 11780 [1164518]
228 | 15720 [1554658], 13780 [1365508], 11840 [1176358]
229 | 15800 [1570458], 13850 [1379358], 11900 [1188258]
230 | 15880 [1586338], 13920 [1393278], 11960 [1200218]
231 | 15960 [1602298], 13990 [1407268], 12020 [1212238]
232 | 16040 [1618338], 14060 [1421328], 12080 [1224318]
233 | 16120 [1634458], 14130 [1435458], 12140 [1236458]
234 | 16200 [1650658], 14200 [1449658], 12200 [1248658]
235 | 16280 [1666938], 14270 [1463928], 12260 [1260918]
236 | 16360 [1683298], 14340 [1478268], 12320 [1273238]
237 | 16440 [1699738], 14410 [1492678], 12380 [1285618]
238 | 16520 [1716258], 14480 [1507158], 12440 [1298058]
239 | 16600 [1732858], 14550 [1521708], 12500 [1310558]
240 | 16680 [1749538], 14620 [1536328], 12560 [1323118]
241 | 16760 [1766298], 14690 [1551018], 12620 [1335738]
242 | 16840 [1783138], 14760 [1565778], 12680 [1348418]
243 | 16920 [1800058], 14830 [1580608], 12740 [1361158]
244 | 17000 [1817058], 14900 [1595508], 12800 [1373958]
245 | 17080 [1834138], 14970 [1610478], 12860 [1386818]
246 | 17160 [1851298], 15040 [1625518], 12920 [1399738]
247 | 17240 [1868538], 15110 [1640628], 12980 [1412718]
248 | 17320 [1885858], 15180 [1655808], 13040 [1425758]
249 | 17400 [1903258], 15250 [1671058], 13100 [1438858]
250 | 17480 [1920738], 15320 [1686378], 13160 [1452018]

to compare time spent to reach lvl 200 vs lvl 250 based on PPH (points per hour):
(PPH=1000 for new players, 2000 for average veteran players, 5000+ for players like "burek")
lvl 200|250 total xp (80): 1144738|1920738; hours needed: 1145|1921, 572|960, 229|384
lvl 200|250 total xp (70): 1006128|1686378; hours needed: 1006|1686, 503|843, 201|337
lvl 200|250 total xp (60): 867518|1452018; hours needed: 868|1452, 434|726, 174|290

Typical scenario:
Lets say we are an average veteran player with 2000 PPH, and we want to reach current lvl cap 200 with current threshold of +80xp per lvl. For that we would need 572 hours.

Then this new lvling system is implemented and we want to reach same lvl cap 200 with a new threshold of +60xp per lvl, playing with a new account/character. That would take us only 434 hours, which is less for 138 hours (24%). But for reaching new lvl cap 250 it would take us total 726 hours, which is more for 154 hours (27%).

If a threshold of +70xp per level was implemented instead of +60xp, then we would need 503 hours to reach current lvl cap 200, which is less for 69 hours (12%); not much of a difference. But to reach new lvl cap 250 we would need total 843 hours, which means 271 hours more (47%)!

Therefore I would rather choose a threshold between +60xp and +66xp per lvl.
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