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He would have needed to change his strategy quite a lot to remain competitive , something I don't think he was ever willing to do.
I should have chosen my words better. It's not that it wouldn't work in terms of you getting the results he states but those results would no longer give you the competitive edge, in fact I'd wager any one following it to the tee as it was commanded would find themselves more or less behind. Glarg's guide coupled with the beginning stages of CR's is still a fantastic way to begin any new city. The best IMHO. As CR's was more a 'life style change' to how you play the entire game it simply doesn't hold up in terms of keeping players ahead of the curve, which was it's purpose.
I'm not exactly sure. Each established world had their own trickle of arc super leveling. Observations of how a high arc could really impact the game started coming from the other servers and beta. On each world someone had to be the ginny pig. On mine, N, it was Stineamite. I remember him working it for an incredibly long time, as obviously when you're the first arc until you can convince someone to go with you you're going it alone, no locks. I bought goods from him at one point and he directed me to his level 60ish arc to pay and I'd never seen anything like it from anyone else in the game up till that point. Going by the dates in my city planner it would have been around January of 2017 that N had it's first level 60s arc. About a month later when I realized what he was doing and why, I bought arc goods from him and had the first one in my guild (as an LMA player lol). From there as @Stephen Longshanks would say the virus had spread. His was up and he could lock people, once those were up those people could lock others and so on and so on. Then still going by planner dates it looks like I had it at 80 by February of 2018. Which is why when people complain to me about how long it takes, or they should be getting 1.9 I don't have much sympathy. I took whatever I could get and even then I know I had it better than the first who got nothing.
As for when people started coupling that with high Chats those who were using Chat before began noticing how much more useful it could be with arc. People on beta and other worlds had super leveled theirs so you could see the actual numbers. Chat was a much slower turn around for people to see its usefulness even now some don't bother. It was the first GB I did after Arc most others seemed to work Cape. It was quite hard to get all the BPs since not many people were bothering (and I was under PE at the time) So super long story to get to your answer, best round about time table where chat + arc came to be understood and THE combo was sometime after Feb 2018 though there were many players who knew that before hand and just didn't bother to have yet another argument of why getting more quest rewards were better than XYZ or whatever they would throw at you.
I can only speak to the time lines on the world I experienced. @LacLongQuan would probably long predate anything I saw as at least forum wise he was the first player I can recall really talking about leveling his arc so he and his world most likely joined the band waggen much earlier. Arc/FE was released in Feb of 2015, someone had to first get the idea for it then actually do it -gather bps and power level it without locks- then that idea had to spread out. It's not like it is now where a GB is dropped and 5 hours later someone had a level 60 and we can all see the stats.
GE 4 hadn't come out yet. GE itself was only added into the game in May of 2016, couple weeks after I started playing. Earliest date on his guide I can see is 7 months later but that's when he decided to write it here not when he began his 'teachings'.
