Thank you for making a discussion post. Can you post a copy of your ini and a picture of your character implant. I will try to replicate the possible bug and or pin down the cause.
Also, are you in single player, a dedi server or are you hosting off your game?

Sure thing. Thanks for the quick response!

This is a dedicated server. I have only tried the Chibi unlock so far so I don't know if others are impacted.

Game.ini
https://pastebin.com/kq4GqDQV

GameUserSettings.ini
https://pastebin.com/ApN8kgey

Screenshot
https://imgur.com/a/Pj3zR0Y

Thanks, I will look into this and see what I find. In the mean time, let me know when you hit a level cap and what it is. On that char you just showed me don't use another consumable either, maybe ask a friend to try one of the others. Just so I can see the interactions. The chibi and the explorer notes were both tricky to create

Well I think I see your problem, you have two level override lines, one stopping at level 199, the other going up to 298, my guess is the one going to 298 is taking priority. You shouldn't need to add additional overrides with the mod, just use what you had that capped you at 200 then add the mod on top, you shouldn't need to scale the exp all the way up to 300

Originally posted by D1xon:

Well I think I see your problem, you have two level override lines, one stopping at level 199, the other going up to 298, my guess is the one going to 298 is taking priority. You shouldn't need to add additional overrides with the mod, just use what you had that capped you at 200 then add the mod on top, you shouldn't need to scale the exp all the way up to 300

The level 298 override is the player experience curve. The level 199 is the dino experience curve.

Unless I'm drastically misunderstanding a recent change, those should be fine since they've been accurate since the most recent ascension caps were applied? They worked accurately with the last couple servers and ascension boosts.

I'm spinning up a test server now to validate max levels and if it's only tied to specific unlocks.

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration_(Survival_Evolved)#Players_and_dinos_levels_override

Your order is flipped, according to this the first time that appears it applies to players, the second it appears it applies to dinos

Okay, I'll check that out in a minute.

I'm not able to re-produce the issue on a new Test server. The ascension items respect level caps there from what I'm seeing. I'll copy over the existing character and see if that makes a difference.

If it's not the overrides, the only other exp related change I made was to enable the player death exp penalties after the ascension mod was already in place.

If I find anything noteworthy that directly points to an issue in this mod I'll let you know. If not we can delete this thread so-as not to confuse people.

Originally posted by It's An Otter:

Originally posted by D1xon:

Well I think I see your problem, you have two level override lines, one stopping at level 199, the other going up to 298, my guess is the one going to 298 is taking priority. You shouldn't need to add additional overrides with the mod, just use what you had that capped you at 200 then add the mod on top, you shouldn't need to scale the exp all the way up to 300

The level 298 override is the player experience curve. The level 199 is the dino experience curve.

Unless I'm drastically misunderstanding a recent change, those should be fine since they've been accurate since the most recent ascension caps were applied? They worked accurately with the last couple servers and ascension boosts.

I'm spinning up a test server now to validate max levels and if it's only tied to specific unlocks.

Sorry I just now realize you realize the level 298 is the player curve. As best I can tell you do not need to specify a curve beyond the 200 that you want players to go. That would be my first place to look.
I cannot do it tonight but this weekend I can spend some time testing, I will need to update my dedi server files

Originally posted by It's An Otter:

Okay, I'll check that out in a minute.

I'm not able to re-produce the issue on a new Test server. The ascension items respect level caps there from what I'm seeing. I'll copy over the existing character and see if that makes a difference.

If it's not the overrides, the only other exp related change I made was to enable the player death exp penalties after the ascension mod was already in place.

If I find anything noteworthy that directly points to an issue in this mod I'll let you know. If not we can delete this thread so-as not to confuse people.

I am not familiar with a player death xp penalty, what mod is that? Could be that doesn't play nice with level adjustments

I am not an INI guru by any means, so I do apologize if my information is incorrect

Originally posted by D1xon:

I am not an INI guru by any means, so I do apologize if my information is incorrect

All good. I do appreciate the help.

For player exp scaling you have to account for each of the ascension levels possible beyond the base amount. ARK currently has 100 possible ascension levels so you have to define a level scaler with +100 levels above your max which is why you're seeing it up to 298. This represents a level 200 hard-cap pre-ascension with drastic exp ramp when moving beyond that as the ascension level ups begin.

Player XP penalty is coming from the DeathInventoryKeeper mod.

NOTE: Copying over the impacted character to the test server locked exp where it was. This might be something related to either Omega gear or possibly the XP penalty. If I track it down I'll share.

I will be up a while, feel free to add me if you wanna chat in a little bit of a faster format