Event Bonus EXP for Parties

It's been great seeing the ML staff put effort into making other non-meta maps a viable option for training, especially those good for party training - and I thought it'd be a good time to voice an idea I'd been thinking about.

Concept: Provide an event EXP bonus for party training. Here, bonus EXP is awarded from monsters killed by the player, while in a party. This could be used in conjunction with existing event bonus EXP or exclusively.

Purpose: Increase collaboration between players by making party training at a larger map a more attractive option (e.g., MP3 or even FoG compared to GS2) while creating a disincentive for AFK-leeching.

Relating to leech: This EXP bonus does not apply to EXP earned by party members, meaning leech would be wholly unaffected by the bonus (aside from the bishop/arch mage attacking).

Relating to current event bonuses: Applying this bonus at the same, current rate as current event bonuses would be a significant downgrade (as with the Event Party EXP Bonus you're only getting the bonus EXP from your kills and not that of your party's), so the bonus percentage would need to be adjusted slightly.

Final Note: This is especially helpful as an event bonus because the number of active players usually spikes during events. As a result, new and returning players are more likely to interact with other players through training and the general player base can find alternatives to the now inaccessible high-in-demand maps.

Thanks for reading!

 

Good point; I have a few things I should elaborate upon here:
1. Bonus should only apply when in a party where the members are within a co-training level (they take away a portion of your EXP from your kills).
2. While in that party, the bonus should not make your total EXP from the kill more the monsters normal EXP + the otherwise normal event bonus EXP.
3. Overall, hopefully this shouldn't be too much of an issue. With the appropriate Bonus EXP %, adding a mule should have you end up with the same overall bonus EXP as the regular event bonus (so training should be much faster if you don't just plop a mule on your map).

Yeah, I mentioned leech would be "wholly unaffected," but hopefully the training incentive might have more people opt to grind in a party instead!

 

Asking the real questions here