[zenith]

Wow, this is an old topic.

I suggested the "everyone with 100 energy" before anyone had 100 energy (over a year ago). It's too late for that idea now.

Back in the days of 25 credit energy refreshes, we had a few players attack hundreds of players each day for a few hundred credits. It got to the point where the biggest donator attacked everyone online because someone upset them, causing everyone to log out. The game was a ghost town during peak hours due to this... definitely NOT what we want.

So we created the credit refresh scale based on energy. Of course this didn't stop some players from refreshing, and a cap was proposed. While I've always been against hard caps, eventually a "over 10 uses and the price increases" soft cap was introduced.

The soft cap tends to slow down things except on gym days. The main intent of the energy refreshes based on total energy was because I didn't want to have some frustrated uber player keep everyone online in the hospital again. While it doesn't completely prevent this, it makes the cost to do it so steep it's not worth the effort. And it did exactly what we intended it to do.

When the tactic of using refreshes to train in the gym started gaining interest, the new refresh costs seemed even more appropriate. Why it wasn't used for training more is because level tended to be more important than stats back in the olden days.