[matt5250]

It's not a matter of how people use their donation. this is a matter of how much advantage you allow to donaters. personally I donate a fair amount, more than most but significantly less than the top donators. I still believe that making user level a larger proportion of combat ability makes sense. people invested time and effort into getting levels so they should be rewarded for it. also, this way the top donators will have to decide how many credits they spend towards stats and how many they spend towards leveling and try to maximize battle capability gains. I sincerely believe that the old combat system managed large donators better than the new one does. basically I believe that the returns to donation graph should be logarithmic.