The reducers aren't in the CS, they're in the battle shop. c:

As someone who is capped, I totally agree with you. :P

Think of it this way: the BAs could have had the foresight to stop capped pets from gaining exp and then you'd be in the exact same spot. It's just that this way you can actually see how much EXP you accrued. And anyway, if you got the exp from BQs, you also got tokens from that. And if you got the exp from regular opponent fights you also got loot from them, so it's not like exp was your only reward.

I wonder if the special secret for (soon to be formerly) capped pets is a new Castle-level opponent? I can't think of what else it might be that would only be applicable to (soon to be formerly) capped pets... Or maybe a new way of earning godlies? (HAHAHAHA I wish.)

Oh really? Don't mind me, I live under a rock. In that case, there's no reason that exp can't be used to rearrange stats.

That wouldn't be a bad idea. The 'Spend EXP' page might get a little cluttered, but that's literally the only downside I can think of. I don't think it would even be that hard to code, considering it would just involve copying the existing code and adding a negative sign, plus a safeguard against trying to take a pet below 0 in a given stat (which should just be a simple 'if' statement, right?).

You Won!

You have defeated Prodigy 5 times!

You won a(n) Impossible token to use in the battle shop!

Prodigy drops:

Quark

Tome of Water

Prodigy Staff

Tome of Light

Tome of Darkness

The Void Scroll

Brinnypoo earned 5249 EXP Points!

You earned 32805 sP for beating Prodigy!

YAYAY!! OMG I don't like him!!

Wow congrats very much on your wins against Prodigy, well done!

Well hard to answer that question since I don't agree with the reasoning behind a cap in the first place.

But in my frame of reference it makes no difference whatsoever to me if those capped pets reach the new cap the day the new cap comes online or a few weeks or months after that.

I have no personal stake in this - my highest pet is a T11, so I won't lose any EXP and I won't be able to hit the new (or old) cap anytime soon. The point, for me, in raising the cap is being able to, over time, improve my pet more than I can now do so.

Additionally, you've been talking about making changes to weapons that make very important distinctions based on a pet's stats, so a pet that is right now capped, with an increase to the cap will be able make changes so that this system will benefit them.

I have no objection to capped pets NOT getting anymore EXP - that's not a problem since people will understand that from the outset.

What I object to is people putting in hours of battling with the expectation that they will get something out of it, then years later being told "oh sorry, too bad you lose :P!"

I have, personally, been burned too many times to count whenever the battle system changes. Even though I won't lose anything on this change, it still pisses me off because it shows that you really don't care about burning your users. That nothing has been learned from the past. That the time, energy, sP, CSC we've put into battling doesn't count for anything. That we can't trust anything you* say.

(*not personal you, but battle admins, Keith and whatever other staff make battle decision as a group)

Fantastic, thank you for checking into that for me! I really didn't want to sit there and stare at uneven stats for the next unknown period of time (ending in 00 is one thing, but 98 would literally drive me up a wall).

Congrats, dear! Li'l Brinnypoo is so grown up now. 😭

I feel that people doing bqs on a capped pet before they knew there would be a cap raise for sure is kinda... you shouldn't assume anything. Cuz you know what they say about assuming...

Congrats!!

I don't know anything about coding, but that sounds good haha. And it wouldn't even have to be a permanent thing, just do it for like a week or two before everything gets cleared to give people a chance to do -something- with all that saved exp. I'm sure not everyone wants to rearrange stats, but it might ease the sting just a little. And it wouldn't be hard to regulate it since the old cap would still be in place. No one would be able to boost past it or anything.

thanks!!! I'm so happy I'm done with him for a while...haha

LOl Walrus..IKR!!! seems like yesterday she was a T7....

except that you're always rewarded immediately for battling with things like item drops and battle shop tokens. Since you can only get xp for the first 10 wins, battling for hours for xp has never been a thing. You're either fighting an opponent for the loot, or for BQs which give rewards, or for tokens which after 10 wins, is all you have a chance to get.

Luckily this will change with the update :D and also luckily capped pets won't have p at the new cap so this'll never be a problem :D

You have defeated Deadroot 6 times! Wuf earned 3839 EXP Points! You earned 11810 sP for beating Deadroot!

working on getting my wins in before the win reset ^_^

I know I already said so, but congrats =P

I agree with both y'all. It would be one thing if the BAs had ever explicitly said that exp would be available to use once the cap was raised, but they didn't. Until about a year ago they hadn't even said the cap was ever going to be raised. It sucks that your assumptions proved incorrect, especially if you were specifically BQing with your main instead of training up a 2nd pet, but that's not the BAs' fault.

Thanks for quoting that post. I'll make sure to use up all my EXP since my battle pet is T12 but not capped.
Congrats on your 4th win against the Castle. Congrats on 5 wins against Prodigy!!!

I think you stated that much better than I could. BAs are just doing their job, making decisions they feel will benefit the most people, not just the top battlers. If they are sure this is the best idea, then there's not much any of us can do or really should try to do about it.

and

thanks!!! :D made my day that's for sure

I know it made my night last night when I got my wins xD

You Won!

You have defeated Deadroot 7 times!

You won a(n) Impossible token to use in the battle shop!

Wuf earned 3455 EXP Points!

You earned 10629 sP for beating Deadroot!

I guess I have to beat Prodigy 5 times for that scroll. LOL.