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This change in mastery levels shows that Rovio understands psychology. Games do better when they offer constant rewards so there is visible sign of progress. Before, when it took three weeks or so to go from M13 to M14, there was less feeling of reward because the progress wasn’t “visible” in the sense that the tangible reward (increase in mastery level) didn’t happen very often. With the increase in number of mastery levels, you will gain mastery at the same overall rate, but your level will increase several times over the same three week period.
It was kind of a letdown after an event when I got 10,000 mastery points for a particular bird class and no hats increased their mastery level. The birds got closer to leveling up, but there was no tangible reward, and our brains are wired to expect a reward. This solves that problem by making sure the leveling up happens more often, without changing the final level in terms of bird strength.