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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
... there seems to be a problem with the exp counter in the personal information window. I've noticed that the exp reading goes both up AND down sometimes. For example...at the end of one fight, it'll read 98.3, and after the fight is over, it'll drop back down to 98.0 percent. I've seen this occur several times.
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Once upon a time, the digital display of adventuring and tradeskilling experience (that which you seen in the default UI when you tooltip over the exp bar) wasn't rounded. In other words, if you had, for example, 75.8% experience, it would still display as 75%.
This fact was utilized by many exp bar modders to allow display of exp gain to tenths of a percent. (The "how" isn't terribly important right now.)
Unfortunately, though, several months ago, the digital display of adventuring and tradeskilling experience was fixed so that it rounded correctly, just as the digital display of guild experience had done all along. So, now, mods that haven't been adjusted since the change will frequently show exp incorrectly. For example, if your actual exp is 75.8%, those mods will incorrectly show it as 76.8%. That's the source of the erratic behavior you described.
There have been many, many threads here and elsewhere in which modders have complained about how Sony "broke" the exp display, but the fact is, they actually fixed it. The number *should* be rounded, since it's intended as (and is only used in the default UI as) a whole-number display of experience. The problem is that Sony only fixed it after many exp bar mods had been developed which relied upon the unrounded number being available.
Personally, I think Sony ought to make both the rounded and the unrounded numbers available; that way, both whole-number and tenth-of-percent displays could be used in exp bars. But they haven't done so yet.
Oddly, even though it's become quite obvious that the number isn't likely to be changed back, almost no exp bar mods have been updated to accomodate the change. I really don't understand that. *Shrug*
-- Darryl (Milquetowst)