Highest Account Level I Have Ever Seen – Deep Rock Galactic – A Letter To Management

So, I was joining a mission in progress one night and I see a group doing a Hazard 5. I pause to think, “do I want to do a 5?”, “Hell yea I wanna do a 5!”. I’m a Scout class employee, so I figured I would make good use of the Engineer’s platforms since it was a Mining Expedition and they needed a Scout. I always want to do what’s best for the team. I was eager to try out my new equipment since the recent ‘Feeling Perky’ roll out by management. During my decent to Hoxxes IV I immediately notice that one of the employees’ account level was 11101. This didn’t seem right. I might need to inform management of this! My DRG account level is 185 and I have been mining for 417 hours. Account level, let’s say ‘AccLvl’, divided by the number of hours mined, is an equation we can use to determine the level per hour (Lvl/h) needed to achieve a given account level. Let’s figure out my Lvl/h for a base to compare from.

As you can see above, there is a massive discrepancy between the results. The Other miner has almost double my mining hours but is somehow 60x my level! Theoretically, there is a maximum cap to this Lvl/hr metric that even the most efficient miner, that only speed runs Hazard 5’s with a double XP bonus and Warning missions, min/maxing their heart out could not surpass. To give you a further idea of the results, I rarely settle for H3’s and spend most of my time doing H4’s. We could go on like this in more detail, maybe work out exactly how much experience management gives for each mission, but I think my point is already made.

I have been a DRG employee since the beginning and I count myself as one of the best DRG employees that ever swung a pickaxe on Hoxxes IV. So, upon joining this H5 team and seeing an account level of 11101, I instantly knew that this Dwarf could not possibly be THAT much better than me! I was getting worries that completing a mission with this employee might reflect badly on me and management might suspend me because there was clearly something dodgy going on here. I had already formulated my question to this employee before landing on Hoxxes IV. “Hey mate, you’re not doing anything dodgy right now are you? Your account level?”. Silly Dwarf played dumb, but it didn’t seem like any funny business was happening in this mission. They must have done something dodgy in the past though. I’ll keep my mouth shut for now and just keep mining. Truth be told, they were an excellent miner and it was a pleasure finishing that mission with them. I know a legit veteran miner when I see one, regardless of some artificial number management wants to assign to their employees. We even went on to do a Deep Dive! Respect!

For Rock and Stone, in Karl’s honour! P.S. The Dwarf in question later told me about his dark past and why his account level was so high. Follow the link to see that discussion.