Taemien
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There’s probably a number of players who enjoy the settings as they are. You’re never going to find a set that everyone will agree on. But this is why we have thousands of servers to choose from. One of them is bound to have the settings you like.
Though I would point out something. At 1x rates a Blackblood tool would only harvest 2 more resources than a Starmetal one. So 14-15 per harvest with starmetal and 16-17 with blackblood. At 4x these become 56-60 vs 64-68. So even though I agree that 1.0x harvest rates are probably best, this is not a good argument for it.
Personally I believe harvest rates should be no higher than 1.9x but 1.0 as being optimal, and exp rates should be no higher than 0.2 but optimally 0.1 for the best experience. Unfortunately I’m in the minority on this, if you look at the top servers they are all on the opposite end of the spectrum. People want fast. Its what they like. Its what they will play.
But these numerical settings are just numerical preferences. When making a server, you set the settings you want. People come in if they like them, they won’t if they don’t.