To those for the Aliens/Jesters/LHC Nerf

My theory is that like a previous poster had said, the exp values of the mansion are preBB values. Also, Alien Cogs and ruined NLC was actually developed for pre-BB but was never rebalanced when they finally released it years later. So it was basically a lazy port and these "shortcuts" were just oversights.

That's my theory though. The other one some of us proposed was that Nexon was on some kind of crack that was out of this world and decided to bloat those aliens themselves.

I would say that it was either Nexon being an optimist about Aliens (thinking that maybe people wouldn't necessarily train on them) or that, similarly to what Shinku said, Nexon intentionally made them bloated so that people wouldn't have a reason to dismiss the content completely. Because let's face it, without Aliens there isn't anything remotely redeemable about Destroyed NLC. Or the third option of complete nearsightedness in the sense that Nexon didn't realize that Aliens were so much better than other monsters near their level.

Oh that, yeah that certainly was a pain in the ass. For game balance, fair enough...though can you agree that Nexon let it go on for far too long? They let people get accustomed to that type of experience gain, then take it away without notice. If it was inbalanced all this time, which it was, why let it go on for so long? I guess I'm alone here in my wish for lower leveled monsters to get some increased gains then. I wouldn't expect it to, but certainly there should be some sort of increased activity? I just think that people will still go to the best alternatives grinding-wise rather than PQing, because the alternative spots are still likely faster. Or that, maybe people will have the same mindset thinking no one will go to PQ, and thus no one will be around for it.

I would just say it's oversight that kept them around for so long. LHC was kept around because during Ascension no one (apparently) really wanted LHC to leave for a theme dungeon.