Plots, XP, alts, cubits, ya know what I'm talking about!

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@Salvatory

Ok, here’s my 2 cents.

Add a debuff that builds up for ‘over activity’ with xp gain. This way you can throttle the speed at which people can milk all the various areas they try and shift to gain excessive amounts of xp. It would be a diminishing return on consecutive xp flow, so let’s say you want the throttle the max to 3000 cubits a day, you could add a script that calculates all the players crafting during a 24hr period, and start the debuff announcing that they are getting diminishing returns on their efforts.

Case 1: I’m mining with a full stack of AoE fast hammers… by the 6th hammer i’ve earned 3k cubits potentially, and get the debuff for 24hrs. I can either log out, continue anyway, or go chill with a less intensive activity - the debuff would slowly drop off.

Case 2: I have a load of mass crafts popping out, and i’ve got an xp pie on. I get my 3k worth for the day, but then the rest suffers a diminishing return (maybe i make 4-5k cubits, and not the 10k cubits for all the crafts running because of the diminishing return.

Case 3: I’m a regular player who does a little of everything, and i’ll never see the debuff.

I think it would work, and force a healthier play style. The only people who will whine, are the people doing mass activity to milk cubits. I’ve been doing this activity because it’s there (and also somehow trees grow in mid air!!!, so need so many stupid plots!)

Trying not to clutter the testing thread more than it already is, so replying to a post from there, here, as it seem appropriate (hope you don’t mind, Aenae!?).
I this play this game a lot (2349 hours though I’m know there are a lot of peeps with more…this isn’t a competition ).
In a gaming session, on my day off, I will usually go mining, then crafting then building.
I will usually level-up several times during the day (I eat a lot of pies…) and with those cubits I will buy plots to add to my build (currently at just over 5,000 plots and growing.)
I build on these plots.

I have spent millions with the community buying mats and hammers (soooo many hammers) and I also sell coils (and was one of the first to bring coils down to a reasonable and fair price).

So, do you think it would be a good idea to limit very active players, like myself, by using an xp cap? How long would they stick around?
Also I am, like many players who enjoy such games as this, mature enough (not saying adult as sometimes the younger ones can act more like adults than the actual adults!) to decide what is a healthy amount of game time.
Is that good for the game or a productive message to send to new players?

I bought a fair amount of cubits after release to first establish my build but I have no wish to continually being buying plots. I had to leave black desert online as I was spending far more than was reasonable (for me), even though I consider it a great game (opinions may vary).

Anyway, I hope I didn’t whine too much