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#### Making Maximum Energy a Sure Benefit

Hello,
There is some concern in parts of the community that having a larger maximum energy pool can be detrimental rather than beneficial. Before the xpimagination changes that force people to spend imagination to increase their maximum energy, I think a few changes should be made to make sure that maximum energy is always good. The current worth of maximum energy could lead to undesirable results such as: having a handful of glitchen who stay at 100 energy to keep teleportation costs low; or a number of glitchen who spend imagination to increase their energy only to feel that it made them worse.
In order to address this, I'm proposing three changes:
1. Reduce teleportation costs for ranks 1 through 4 to 30%, 25%, 20%, 15%
2. Base meditation returns on maximum energy so that meditation rank 3 would give 100% of maximum energy in 10 minutes of meditating. At the same time increase meditation cooldown and ensure the minimum meditation benefit equals the current benefit for lower level players.
3. Reduce the value of ancestral lands quoins by approximately half but increase their respawn rate to make the total quoin value per time the same as it is now.
I've written a little policy paper explaining why I think these changes are a good idea and the best way to address the issue of maximum energy value at: http://mathemaglitch.blogspot.com/p/executive-summary-because-of-costs-that.html. It is excessively long and probably ill-proofread.

Posted 11 months ago by Humbabella | Permalink

### Replies

- A million times yes on number two. Maybe I'm just an elitist level 60, but at this point the return on meditation I get is really just not worth the trouble. The few seconds it takes to meditate would be better served organizing bags. The energy ticks are simply much too large for the benefit.
  Posted 11 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom | Permalink
- I agree with all of this. I deliberately try to avoid leveling up because it really only creates more of a burden... You also start getting the "You're going to die, eat something!" message sooner. I don't want to have only 100, but I think 1000 or 1200 is a good number allowing for lots of actions, but still keeping TP costs low-ish and Awesome stew still useful (seven to fill up right now!). And meditating is useless except to go for badges.
  tl;dr: LOVE this idea. If nothing else, implement some of it for Humbabella's awesome use of math and writing a fricken paper about it!
  Posted 10 months ago by Lady Cailia | Permalink