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Experience Points (XP)

XP is the activity-driven progression unit that powers your Character on Ratel. Every Space action you complete records a SpaceActivity row, and that row mints a fixed XP amount into your Character total. XP doesn't directly cash out — its job is to drive your level, your Skill Points (SP), and the boosts you spend SP on.

How XP is earned​

Five Space actions today award XP, with fixed amounts per event:

ActionXP per event
Poll — respond to a poll once50,000
Quiz — pass a quiz20,000
Quiz — fail a quiz (still attempted)1,000
Discussion — leave a reply5,000 (per comment)
Follow — complete a follow campaign1,000

Posts, comments under posts, and other native activity feed your Essence directly but currently don't mint XP — XP is scoped to Space-level participation today. (As the platform grows, expect more event types to award XP.)

A few rules that the platform enforces server-side, so you don't need to think about them:

  • Dedup per action. Polls, Quizzes, and Follows mint XP once per user per action — replying to the same poll twice doesn't double up. Discussion replies are an exception: each comment is its own XP-earning event, so a thoughtful multi-comment thread genuinely earns more than a one-liner.
  • No retroactive minting. XP is recorded the moment the action completes; closing a tab mid-flow won't grant XP after the fact. Run the action through to completion.
  • Idempotent processing. Even if Ratel's internal stream sees a duplicate event (rare, but possible), the dedup key prevents the same activity from minting XP twice.

How XP becomes Character progress​

XP rolls up into your Character at /me/character (see My Essence → Character for the full tour):

  • Total XP drives your Level. Each level requires more XP than the last, on a curve.
  • Levels grant Skill Points (SP). Hit a new level and SP land in your account, ready to spend in the skill tree.
  • Skill Points buy upgrades. Money Tree multiplies every future Reward Point payout; Ranker boosts the bonus portion of every Space activity (compounding back into faster XP gains).

Two skills are levelable today (Money Tree and Ranker, each capping at L10 with +50% effect at max). A second cohort (Influencer, Sweeper) is (Coming soon — v2).

What XP doesn't do​

  • XP isn't a payout. It can't be converted to Points, Credits, or Tokens. It's purely a progression signal that buys SP, and SP buys multipliers on the other primitives.
  • XP doesn't decay. Total XP only goes up. Levels you've reached stay reached even if you take a break.
  • XP isn't transferable. It belongs to your account, not your wallet — there's no on-chain XP token.

Where XP shows up in the UI​

  • Character page (/me/character) — Hero card with Level, total Character XP, XP-to-next-level, and SP available to spend.
  • Space arena ranking — many Spaces show a Total XP leaderboard column on /spaces/:space_id/dashboard so participants can see how their contribution stacks up.
  • Reward Points — the unit of earning that XP boosts via skill multipliers.
  • My Essence → Character — spend SP, level up Money Tree, and see what your Character does for your earnings.