bump it down to like 15%.. make it like an ant-neural and i give it a +1

I still don't understand slow/freeze ranking...

I still don't understand slow/freeze ranking...

Why do people always have to criticize how others play their game? If its the way they want to play then let them, its not like your loosing out or gaining anything from them.
Does not affect your style so let them be.

+1 Slow/freeze ranking is a strategy played by many so let them have something that helps their game style!

Yeah, no thank you... this CT Lab artifact can make NPCers kill more NPCs without gaining much EXP, meaning more Terraforming Device, Planet Flux, etc will be gained with very little ranks earned. It's good at it is, slow ranker or fast ranker.

Here's my main criticisms on it:

1) "It's my playstyle, I can do what I want!" - Totally true. If someone's having fun, who am I to question it? Your level also determines your cohort of people you see regularly/fight and so forth. If you don't want to level past them, slow/freeze ranking makes some sense.

2) "It's strategy!" - This is my problem. It's a terrible, horrible, no-good strategy to freeze or slow-rank while at low rank. Your AP production sucks at low rank. I don't care what number it is, it still sucks. Freeze ranking at low level means you're spending weeks and months producing squat. Hoarding your vast wealth when *you don't have any* is not going to make you powerful. If you freeze at rank 200 with your mighty 5k artifact production, you'll get a little trickle of stuff over the course of many months. When you finally unfreeze, you'll get to rank 500 and think you're a big cheese because of all the hoarding you did. But the people at 500 have been building up AP the whole time, so they're sitting on 20k. They make in a month what you spent *four* months freezing to get. They're just as powerful as you, and you've gained nothing.

So if people freeze-rank because they think it's fun, they like to hang out with their friends, or other social/fun reasons, more power to 'em, enjoy yourselves. But it's just plain crazy to think of it as a good investment for the future. It's like a high schooler not thinking he needs to get a job because he gets a $5 allowance from his parents.

if this gets denied shouldn't neural interfaces get removed. based on the perspective of a non fast or slow ranker people who use NI's get more npcs per day than me due to ranking more which equals more nrg for them. also they get planets faster than me because they hit the next rank requirement faster. both play styles have their own disadvantages. any way doesn't Dan not like the idea of people ranking slower

And they dont technically get more NPC's than you if they use Neurals, in fact they get fewer per rank.

they might get more terraformers than you in 1 run, but you would get more per rank, giving you an advantage.

And i dont think Dan is against slow ranking, what he doesn't like is autoranking.
Of course, he could be against both.

Amnesia Inducer

10 Engineered Virus
5 Neural Interface
10 Energy

Reduces all exp gains by 15% for 15 mins

Note: If you are a fast ranker, don't critizize this, fast rankers and slow rankers have different viewpoints.

ehh ,I have a better idea, use a neural interface , wait until it runs out, then start using energy, this way you get 15% LESS exp than fast rankers. (use rsl too for enhanced effect)