Your sarcastic bullcrap is also rather funny, seeing as you really -aren't- in possession of some obvious truth.
Please forgive me for not being as Enlightened as you are, YoungFreshNewbie AlMighty. And please allow me to LOL.
He can have it as hard or easy as he likes in an RPG with random (re)spawns.
And what is the problem with that ?
Tell me, how do you balance an indefinitely high exp value when comparing it to bosses?
How I balance ? It could be a matter of scale, and time investment.
scale: if you need 100 Xp to gain a level, and give 50Xps to a player every times he performs a mundane task, or kill a respawned critter, then I agree with you, it is bullshit.
On the other hand, if I need 10 000 Xps to gain a level, and reward 10 Xps for mundane tasks or killing respawns, and give 5000 XPs for fulfilling the basic quest, I am still rewarding the player for his "actions".
Time investment: Playing mundane/respawns will take a much longer time to level up than following the main quest. So it's up to the player as to which path he will choose.
I don't see how giving a little more optionnal leveling options to the players could hurt the gameplay...
I'm sure that if you REALLY want it, too, then modding will be your way to get it,
This is what I have done every time I could put my hands on a decent understandable RPG editor, like NWN2, Mount and blade warband, or Legend of grimrock...
Play a different game if you really aren't satisfied with having to mod it in.
+1. I probably wont go paste Cyseal when the game is released, way to boring for me to get past this ordeal. I bought DOS as a very promising editor that reminds me the good old NWN2 Toolset, actually.
It's your taste and not Larian's.
Probably the only intelligent thing in your post above.
And I would love to see some arguments beside "you suck because what you think is stupid, so you have no right to talk about it.".
You know what I love about a good RPG ? It make you use your imagination.
