This transition scheme with a 20% discount entails that earned XP will be lost; that’s the only way I can see this working out.
I’m at level 50, midway to 51 in the old style with 510,696 XP. This should put me at level 92 new style, well on the way to level 93.
Level 50 new style is 161,000 and my banked XP is therefore 510,696 - 161,000 or 349,696.
Now when I ride from level 50 to 92 new style then I get a 20% discount but the XP along the way is 342,000 and the 20% discount is 68,400.
My banked XP 349,696 minus the discount 68,400 is 281,296 XP that are lost in the process. That means that 55% of my current XP is lost.
Can anyone show that I’m wrong?
Also, note that the accumulation is still 20 XP per km so the old XP and the new XP are the same. It’s not like the new XP is a devalued form of the old.
A different way of looking at this for is that once I reach level 100 then I’ll have about 900k XP but a new player starting today would reach level 100 at about 600k XP. My level 100 will therefore be 50% more difficult.