05-13-2016, 10:13 AM
(05-13-2016, 05:16 AM)Kel Wrote: I registered for the first time just so I could chime in on how this update affected me.
I'm level 119, definitely still in the noob range but I liked the general sense of progress the game gave you, as well as the cooperation with other players aspect. I was looking forward to reaching AT3 at level 130 and finally being able to farm some cards and party with people in my guild. With appropriate rested time and a party with similar DPS as myself, gaining these 11 levels was probably about 2 or 3 days away for me (not 100% sure, I just leave the game idle). Now with this update, being in the same party of similar DPS it will take about 60 days for me to reach level 130. (I'm not entirely sure of the exp to next level formula but this is a low estimate).
I really appreciate the intent to stop scripters/botters/autoclickers/etc. but all this has really done is destroy normal players. My exp/gold rate is now 3% of what it was before. I know this game is about the long grind but if you think 2 months is an acceptable amount of time to gain 10 levels in the early game you severely underestimate the importance of the sense of progress players need. I think the DPS to exp/gold formula needs to be looked at and tweaked a ton - especially for the early game, which has just been completely decimated.
From everything I've read it was supposed to take a little longer for people to advance in the lower levels. Mostly cause people were blasting through the levels, back when I started it took well over a month to get to level 200, now people are doing it in a few days. A lot of this has to do with a bunch of different bonuses being added to the game, such as orbs.
Everything I've read indicates there wasn't an intention to reduce it that much. Like maybe half or a quarter of before, not down to 3%. I'm just guessing though since I haven't seen any solid numbers.
I can think of a couple possibilities for why this is.
First the formula may be wrong, in which case I'm 100% sure that Ray will adjust it but it could take a day or two while he works out any other issues that are more serious, probably less time since I haven't heard of any serious issues going on right now.
Second it could be that fishing will add another group of large bonuses to the game. Since fishing is supposed to be released this weekend Ray may have decided he doesn't want to go back and change the low level calculation in a few days and just put the new formula in now. Unfortunately this will mean you will level up a bit slower since you wouldn't have the bonuses you would normally have at your level, but you would still be ahead of your estimate and where you would be if you started playing right after fishing came out.
The third possibility is that your dps is low for your level, depending on the low level formula gains could increase exponentially as your dps increases instead of in a linear fashion. In which case your estimate may be correct if your dps remained the same but as it goes up the time taken will go down drastically. If that is the case look for every dps bonus you can get, such as the auto orb and doing all the regular and series challenges that you can do.
It could also be a combination of the above. I'd start with getting your dps up as much as possible, the fastest way would be to do any challenges you haven't done yet that you can do. Then see how much that changes how long until you hit 130. If that doesn't change it much then just wait a few days and see what Ray and/or fishing changes in the game.