Yes, and that 5XP a day from voting looks even smaller when you consider that the same person is also getting a free 2XP every day just for logging in.

On a related metter, a couple of days ago I got to wondering how big the voting bonus really was. An Acolyte gets 8 votes per day, so it's easy to see that the Acolyte can expect to acquire an extra 2 XP from casting votes. (Not counting an additional bonus of 2 XP for using them all up.) But the 2XP is really a 25% chance of 1 XP for each vote, so the Acolyte might be lucky and get more XP, or unlucky and get none at all.

my $n = shift || 8;
my $p = shift || .25;

for ($i=0; $i<=$n; ++$i) {
  my $prob = choose($n,$i) * ($p**$i) * ((1-$p)**($n-$i));
  $x += $i * $prob;
  $tp += $prob;
  printf "%2d %.4f\t(%.4f)\n", $i, $prob, 1-$tp;
}
print "Expected: $x\n";

sub choose {
  my ($n, $r) = @_;
  return 0 if $n < 0 || $r < 0 || $r > $n;
  return 1 if $r == 0 || $r == $n;
  return choose($n-1,$r-1) * $n / $r;
}
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(THe program will run When you run this, you can give it an argument which is the number of votes you get per day; it defaults to 8. Then it prints out a table showing the probability of getting each possible number of XP:

 0 0.1001       (0.8999)
 1 0.2670       (0.6329)
 2 0.3115       (0.3215)
 3 0.2076       (0.1138)
 4 0.0865       (0.0273)
 5 0.0231       (0.0042)
 6 0.0038       (0.0004)
 7 0.0004       (0.0000)
 8 0.0000       (0.0000)
Expected: 2
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The '3' line here says that there is a 20.76% chance of receiving exactly 3 XP, and a 11.38% chance of receiving more than 3 XP. The '0' line says there's a 10.01% chance of receving nothing at all.

The chances fall off pretty quickly as the number of points increase, but still about one Acolyte in 11 can expect to get 4 XP from casting votes instead of only 2 XP on a given day.

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