UPDATE: Game-Wide XP / Energy Boosts

[Mooncalf]

Having a chat party? Want to spend all day on Path with friends? Or maybe just want to make it rain XP and get the credit for it? Game-wide XP and energy boosts make it possible, and are now available in the karma shop.

Any day that a boost isn't active (days are still sometimes chosen at random to give XP boosts, just as frequently as before), you can purchase one of these game-wide boosts from the karma shop. Doing so benefits everyone, but it's
a nice option if your faction members are all online and chatting, and you want to make a day of levelling up together.

Buying a game-wide boost for the community will cause everyone's main grid screen to show a message such as, "Bonus x2 EXP AND x2 energy for 24 hours! (Courtesy of Mooncalf.)"

Right now we're rolling out this system as a bit of an experiment. If it's used too often, we might limit the frequency of it in some way. However, we think it will be a system that encourages chat parties, cooperation, goodwill, and player-made events.

I've set it to give x2 XP and energy today, and this will expire in roughly 24 hours from the time of this post. After that you can purchase the items whenever you like.

[Mooncalf]

We've added to this system by creating a community karma pool that anyone can contribute to. The pool fills up until it passes the threshold to unlock a bonus XP day for the following day. It also stacks, so if you reach a x2 XP day, you'll only need to put in another 10 karma between the whole community to reach a x3 XP day, and the same again to reach a x4 day, and so on. Leftover karma in the pool also rolls over to the next day, too.

If somebody purchases a bonus day immediately (using one of the items described in the previous post), then the unlock will roll over again, and be delayed for up to 24 hours.

We're hoping to add more community unlocks for other special days, but we're testing the waters with this first.

You can contribute to the karma pool via the karma shop page.

[Mooncalf]

A similar option to the one mentioned in the previous post, but for energy per hour boosts, has been added to the karma shop. It works just the same, but for energy regained per hour the following day.