A good example: xp for the rites. They used to be 500k. Then at least 250. Now, I see from pbfs, 100. That's just ridiculous.

You made the system. You set it up so people can get edges. You must want people to have some edges. You took away one major way of getting, and said that one of the other ways would increase. Instead, as someone else in this thread noted, they have decreased.

Rites were always a very major event, many hours with lots going on, and happy pretty rarely, and imm xp was given pretty well. Don't know why it's been on a steady decline but now giving 100xp to people who do it is silly. What is a better time and example of when it's appropriate? It's a core part of one of the oldest cabals (maybe oldest?) of the mud and exactly the kind of time to be more, not less, expressive with the xp.

Just one easy example, but if you look at pbfs and go back six months, one year, two years, three years, five years, it's obvious most imms are giving less - far less - and far less often. Exactly when imm xp became more important because of the removal of pk and general retrievals (unopposed) and all other ways but those now remaining were taken away.

Really don't understand the mindset of imms who think being stingy is good. This is a game. You should want people to enjoy. Be liberal. Err on the side of giving out. Nobody is saying go back to the time people would just get 1k for saying "howdy!", but give that 50 or 100 more often, and give more than just 50 or 100 when something like a rites goes on. You've swung too far the other way.