I don't think I accurately communicated what I was trying to say. By "lower the bar" I didn't mean "let people get away with more stuff" or "be more hesitant to punish people when they do stupid stuff".

All I meant is that if you're watching a character and he/she does something moderately worth of praise then go ahead and toss him 100 imm xp. Maybe he kills someone and initiates some non-douchey in-character banter afterwards. Maybe someone says something stupid to him and he responds without breaking role. Etc. Basically, don't wait for people to do stuff that's amazing and superlative before rewarding them, with the goal being for players who are playing the game the way we want it to be played to be rewarded more frequently than they currently are.

Once it becomes more realistic for the average moderately well played character to get, say, 1500 imm exp over the course of 2-300 hours, then you can make that the cap and boost the importance of imm exp w.r.t. generating edge points.

The goal is for, say, the top 50% of characters in terms of "they're interesting, they role-play and they're not a-holes" to hit the cap over the course of a reasonably long lifespan.

A character that doesn't really role-play, though, or who has quiet mode on all the time and never interacts with anyone, would miss out on the majority of those immexp-based edge points.

So I would incentivize "doing stuff that makes an imm want to toss you 100 imm exp" while keeping a modest cap on how many points you can get this way in order to avoid incentivizing imm exp whoring and/or creating a situation where standout characters wind up with obscene amounts of edge points.

One potential problem w/ the above: once you hit the cap you lose all incentive to keep being cool, since you've already max'd out your edge points from that source. So that's a problem. Instead of a "hard" cap, could do a "law of diminishing returns" kind of thing. Maybe for the first 1000 imm exp you get 1 point per 100 xp, then 1 point per 200 xp for the next 1000 xp, then 1 point per 500 xp after that.