We had that before and it was universally hated.

I heavily endorsed Rasatsu's logarithmically damped reward system when he first proposed it, and still do. In a very real mathematical sense all staged or tiered reward systems are an approximation to the logarithmic system.

There are a lot of advantages to this system, but perhaps the biggest are that once you get a little bit of experience with it, it becomes very easy to estimate how much grinding time you need to reach your goals, and that there is no hard cap on your efforts(plus daily top-ups), and especially that if you only have a few hours a week to play you are well-rewarded for your time.

It provides good results for casuals and prevents runaway grinding with one elegant equation.

This scaling wp->sp degradation sounds absolutely terrible. It caters to casuals and hurts the people who already play games till cap every week. We just need to modify the pool to regenerate constantly rather than harsh breaks from every Tuesday to Wednesday. New users get some points thrown into the pool and faster initial accrual rate, and that's it.

I myself would find it infuriating to not have the wp/time I spend in combat to never line up with my end reward, who enjoys non-linear progression?

Okay, so it's stretched long enough that it'd be fairly consistent for a daily player. What about weekend players?

Also, difference WP -> SP rewards for different players would an issue. So although there might be very little inconsistency within a single small play session - you have differences over long play sessions, between sessions with larger gaps gaps, and between different players.

A weakness of this is that players who ask the question "Am I being fairly rewarded?" don't have a simple or easily accessible answer.

Plus, as a programmer you're a special breed: you're very comfortable with complexity whereas most people aren't and don't trust things they can't understand - especially when they thing it *should* be simple.

Rasatsu your suggestion is dope.