On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:03:54 -0500, "Kevin R. Bulgrien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the player whose rant spawned this thread levels overall experience > in one or two skills that are directly related to > killing monsters. This means his character could conceivably revert to a new > player in all but one or two skills after several > deaths.
See my other message. One problem is that with the current exp_table and the artificial limit introduced by death_penalty_levels, you may only lose 3% of your high-level skills when you die, while you lose a full 15% of your low-level skills. So you currently lose exp up to five times slower in the high-level skills, which increases the difference over time and keeps the high-level skills relatively high while the other ones converge towards 0. This is especially obvious after multiple deaths. It took me a while to understand this phenomenon (although I just had to look at the exp_table and it should have been obvious) but now that I saw the problems caused by the current exp_table, I am trying hard to get it changed. It's a pity that death_penalty_levels hides the real problem and causes people to report the wrong problems or to propose other workarounds. > This tends to be quite discouraging to a player, and can spawn a feeling that > one is weaker at level "blah" than he was at level > "blah - 10". Sad, but not surprising if you lose exp in the low levels 5 times faster. > I also still believe there is an anomaly in the game with respect to overall > experience at least. I have seen overall experience > jump inexplicably from time to time where I cannot justify it by gameplay. > An anomally like that that does not also affect > individual skill experience would also tend to exaggerate the difference > between one's overall level and the relative strength of > the character. Well, some monsters are worth quite a lot of exp points. If you kill them with the right skill, you can level up rather quickly. -Raphaël _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
