Dethdlr Wondering why the XP bar for your guild went down with GU58? Don’t worry, you’re actually closer to level 90 than you were before. Rothgar explains on the official forums:
Your XP value behind the scenes, which is some number like 183627, did not change unless your level would have gone down. For example, that number may have put you at 54 prior to the change but would now put you at 52. In this case, we added XP to the number to increase you to level 54 but it would look like you lost progress in 54 when in fact you would have been 52 on the new curve. The total amount of XP needed to get to 90 was lessened, so you are now further along than you would have been before.
In some cases, depending on where you were in the curve, you just passed a hell level and will now be further along than you were before.
Regardless of what the progress bar shows, when you reach level 90, everyone will have put in the same amount of work. It just depends on whether or not you’ve already been through the “hell levels”.
I’m really sorry this is confusing and looks like you’ve lost XP, but everyone should have benefited from this change in the long run.
If its not already as clear as mud, to summarize:
If your guild looks like you lost XP on the progress bar, you were one of the guilds who had XP added to get you up to your old level when you would have been behind.
If your guild gained levels after this, you unfortunately didn’t receive any “free xp”, but since you just went through a hell level that required more XP than the other levels, you now are higher than you were before.
It is fine to say, but it still hurts to see a guild loose 90% or more of a level. 🙁
Kruzzen,
Indeed. I logged in and had lost 25% of a guild level. But I trust Rothgar. If he says that my guild is actually closer to 90 now than before GU58, I believe him.
well. i see what they did, bonus, maybe.. its the richman, poorman concept. the higher guilds gained lvls, the poor got the medicaid and food stamps, and the middle clas have to fork over for the bills.. you can put earrings on a pig. its still a pig.. so reports still out of this in my mind
This was actually quite nice for me. My personal guild went from about 85% into 34 to about 7% into 37.
Got 2 extra amenities earlier than I would have and in my glee, promptly bought the wrong hireling and wasted 2,000,000 status on it. Take the good with the bad I suppose.
Xelgad gave a bit more specific info with numbers:
I can understand it ticking people off since the progress bar to your next level went down. Guess it depeneds on how you look at it. If your goal is to hit 90, you’re closer. If you had other goals, you might have just got hosed a bit.
Reading this made my head hurt.