I too up voted you, but lets talk about this:
6. I'm not sure how you can say they lessened XP. I didn't know there was a set quantity of i available and they reduced it. Actualy you could probably argue the reverse. As a saint i'd basicaly stopped voting unless outraged by something. Now i will begin to vote more agian. That voting produces XP for myself and for the person I vote on. It is quite possible then that the flow of XP will increase greatly as many dormant saints begin to vote like maniacs ;).

Part of this your are surely mistaken on, you no longer get exp for voting after you have passed Beadle -- level 5. This is where the B stops in the graph. 504121

Before at Saint -- 3k exp you got 40votes, now at Curate -- 3k exp You get 24 votes. Further analysis of the graph shows that only 7 people will receive more votes on the upper end of the scale, and that will account for an increase of 16xp daily, oddly the same difference between one Saint of yesteryear, and one Curate as of now.

In addition:
20xp< you <50xpYou get 2 votes rather than 5
50xp< you <90xpYou get 4 rather than 8
90xp< you <100xpYou get 6 rather than 8
100xp< you <150xpYou get 6 rather than 12
150xp< you <200xpYou get 8 rather than 12
200xp< you <250xpYou get 8 rather than 16
250xp< you <450xpYou get 10 rather than 16
400xp< you <500xpYou get 12 rather than 16
500xp< you <600xpYou get 12 rather than 20
600xp< you <900xpYou get 14 rather than 20
900xp< you <1,000xpYou get 16 rather than 20
1,000xp< you <1,300xpYou get 16 rather than 25
1,300xp< you <1,600xpYou get 18 rather than 25
1,600xp< you <1,800xpYou get 18 rather than 30
1,800xp< you <2,300xpYou get 20 rather than 35
2,300xp< you <2,400xpYou get 20 rather than 40
2,400xp< you <3,000xpYou get 22 rather than 40
3,000xp< you <4,000xpYou get 24 rather than 40
4,000xp< you <5,400xpYou get 26 rather than 40
5,400xp< you <7,000xpYou get 28 rather than 40
7,000xp< you <9,000xpYou get 30 rather than 40
9,000xp< you <12,000xpYou get 32 rather than 40
12,000xp< you <16,000xpYou get 34 rather than 40
16,000xp< you <22,000xpYou get 36 rather than 40
22,000xp< you <30,000xpYou get 38 rather than 40
30,000xp< you <40,000xpYou finally catch up, 10k exp more and you come out ahead.

So as you can see, everyone excluding the 6 Bishops (congrats btw) and the 1 Archbishop will loose xp/day to give away. Subsequently, this means stipend for a good post will be reduced. If the numbers of users are correct that means, 6,164 people loose xp/day, and 7 gain, If my math is correct, and it might very well not be, that means 0.11% of people will get more exp. I don't see how anyone can extrapolate more exp going around based on the numbers. If as a Saint you failed to spend your 40exp before, that is a comment more on your own behavior than a trend that can be backed with the data we have now. Data shows this must be a damn powerful trend to even counter the force of daily xp that has been depleted.

Update:

Oh, yeah, about this saint issue. If you are level 13 or higher then you are a saint (or perhaps 'saintly'). If you are level 26 then you are both a Saint and saintly. IOW, we still consider all users over 3k to be 'saints'. Have a look at Saints In Our Book to see.
Sounds like needlss ambiguity hiding behind the guise of an improvement. By your own remarks this system was made to compensate for a rise in the saintbase, from 20 to 400. This is a concern, but the "Saints in Our Book" isn't? I can't see argueing one point and not the other. Either your out to protect the 'Saint' stature, or not.

BTW, I plan to upvote you, as I have most others in this thread; but, I'm currently out of xp. Darn, if only it wasn't reduced.


Evan Carroll
www.EvanCarroll.com

In reply to Re^3: A Level Playing Field by EvanCarroll
in thread A Level Playing Field by Petruchio

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