Hey folks,

A quick tl;dr of this post, in case it confuses you:
- Solo bashers should get roughly the same experience as before (maybe very tiny fluctuations).
- Group bashers will gain 50% more experience than before.

I was looking into a recent player idea about adding a bonus to group bashing, because my understanding was that such a bonus actually already existed. I was correct in that it did exist (an extra 50% experience divided amongst the group), but you were also correct because the code was bugged and... giving the group bonus to group sizes of 1 as well (i.e. a solo basher). This effectively cancelled out the bonus from group bashing, since solo bashers were also mistakenly getting the same bonus.

I've fixed this bug now and made some adjustments to the formula (see below). But rather than just leave solo bashing with nerfed experience I've instead raised the formula for base experience upwards by 50% so that the values for solo bashing are going to be ROUGHLY the same as they were.

How group bashing works now:
- The mob's base experience is increased by 50%.
- Base experience is split amidst the group proportionally by player level. e.g. a level 100 player will get a greater share of the experience than a level 50 player.
* This is how it has always worked and not a new change.
- Player levels are now capped at level 100 in this calcluation.
* Previously, if a level 150 and level 100 player bashed together, the level 150 person would get more share of the experience despite the difference between them at post-100 being miniscule.
* Now, any player 100 or above will get the same share as any other player 100 or above.

As before, shared experience still requires you to be in a web with the person who dealt the killing blow, and also in the same room as them. All of this only applies to PvE, and PvP experience distribution as its own rules.

I'm being a little reductive with the numbers and how things work under the hood, but that's more or less the gist of it.

Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 10th of Severin, in the year 500 MA.
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