>Remove it, completely.

Gotta disagree. My idea to have low-ish caps effectively removes it as a concern for anyone who isn't spending all his/her time sitting in a guild or the Inn. I think it's good to have something that motivates a new player to actually go out and do a minimal level of exploration/observation instead of never going anywhere. The intent is for the caps to be set such that someone behaving "normally" (i.e. no intentional gathering of observation/exploration) will hit the cap after a couple hundred hours.


>Explore XP can stay with no caps if the common/easy areas no
>longer give any.

Disagree here too. If there's no cap then that has the potential to create another perverse incentive. I may already have 20k exploration XP, but if I haven't visited {tough area} then I need to assemble a group of folks and go visit it because it's still worth edge points.


>No caps for edge points from PKs

Again, disagree. For one, I don't want characters like Gaspare getting basically "all the edges" because they have 10x as many PKs as most other players. If anything I would lower the cap at which PKs stop generating edge points. Possibly increase the points-per-PK so that the total # of points remains roughly the same.

>no fixed # of PKs by xx

In the past I would have agreed with you on this one, but it occurs to me that removing this logic would remove the disincentive for players to just race to their combo's "sweet spot" and then get all their PKs there. I do think the caps should be significantly lowered though. Maybe you get some edge points for getting your first PK in each five-level range, but no more points after that. This rewards people for participating in PK at all points along the level spectrum, but reduces the amount of time people actively avoid ranking while trying to get 15 PKs at each level tier.

>Give out increasing number of edge points every 150 hours.

This already more or less happens, since you get edge points for hitting different "age" tiers.

>Edge points for joining a cabal.
>More edge points for becoming leader.

I could see edge points for joining a cabal, maybe. Leaders already get some because you earn cabal xp when you're leaderized. Not sure leaders need more help.

I would like to see edge points more strongly associated with imm xp, and I'd like to see imms hand out imm xp more easily when someone is observed doing something we want to incentivize. Role-playing, not being a docuhe-bag, etc. Basically lower the bar for what qualifies as being worthy of imm exp.

The caveat here is that characters aren't evenly observed. So if you had two guys who were equally "good" in terms of role-play, etc. and one was observed more than the other, that guy would end up with more edge points. Which isn't fair.

So maybe we put a low-ish cap on the # of points that can be earned from imm exp. Set it low enough that the guy who isn't observed as often will still eventually hit the cap so long as he role-plays, etc.