>
> You are 33 and people 3-5 levels above you won't group with you?!
> WTF? They must not know that they will get xp (and plenty of it) with you
> around. OK, I don't remember exactly the floor and ceiling limit for similar
> level ppl to group. I know up to like 20th it's a 4 lvl above or below
> limit. But after 20th things change. When I was 20th I was able to group
> with a 26th level person and get xp. When I was 23 I was grouping with 30th
> level ppl and getting xp. 3-5 level differences at your level will not put
> any significant dent in anyone's xp gains. They are just being either
> ignorant, or greedy. My 32nd lvl friend used to party with 40th lvl ppl all
> the time.

One of the game designers (Ryan Palacios) casually mentioned the algorithm for
determining whether you can group with people to me once, but foolishly, I
didn't write all of it down. I do remember the meat of it, which is that the
distance that people can be apart is one quarter the levels of the highest level
person in the party. So a level 40 person and a level 31 person could group and
both get experience. There were a number of exceptions involved as well, but I
dont' remember them :( I believe there is a lower limit of 3, which makes
sense. Unfortunately, too many people seem to think that this is the UPPER
limit as well.

I tend to play only with the same people all the time, and we're all the same
level, so I don't have a lot of experience to go on here. I know when I was
level 19, I could group with people who were level 25, but not with people who
were level 30.

Jyzan