XP Scaling

Gain bonus xp based on the empty cells in an item or employee's upgrade grid.

Basically What It Does

• Disincentivizes spamming filler upgrades
• Rewards good upgrade organization
• Significantly accelerates early leveling
• Makes lategame Ouroboros hella OP
• Makes Ouroboros: Blitz kind of OP if you can stand grinding it
• Irreversibly gives your save file non-vanilla amounts of XP, so make a backup if you care

Actually What It Does

• The exact formula for the scalar is GlobalXpScalar * (1 + emptyCells / 25 * BonusXpScalar)
  • Global and Bonus scalars are configurable
  • emptyCells is the size of the largest empty clump
  • 25 is the starter grid's cell count (5x5)

Compatibility

• Should be compatible with anything that uses the vanilla XP and upgrade grid systems
• Disable UpgradeLookupIndex for compatibility with UpgradeLagFix
• Works in multiplayer

Credits

• This mod uses a lookup index based on UpgradeLagFix by t4t5u0 under MIT license.

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