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Re: Idle exp
In Last City (my old WoD RP mud) I awarded exp the first time you logged on each day, and again for your first hour of play each day. I didn't view it as idle exp, but rather as playing exp - if someone wanted to idle for it they obviously could, but most people would spend their time roleplaying, socialising, exploring, building or fighting. It basically let people decide what they wanted to do with their online time, rather than forcing them to grind specific activites.
I think my inspiration mainly came from the LARP games I played around the same time, where you earned 1 exp for every session you attended, regardless of what you did. You could simply turn up and sit at the bar if you wanted to - but if you weren't interested in playing, you had no real reason to care about exp anyway.
GodWars Deluxe also gives 1 exp per second, but it's such a trivial amount that it's almost meaningless. It did seem to encourage newbies to hang around longer though.
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