Tweaked experience...

[Rollo]

okay, I did the testing with a 14th Thief, who had a couple of hundred thousand EXP. As suspected he immediately jumped to 16th level after killing the first monster and he had 64k EXP leftover.

After that I exported him and opened a new game reverting to the old system. Good news . He remained 16th level and kept his current EXP.

Rollo

[David E. Gervais]

Good news indeed. I'm currently boosting my level 6 char again before exporting him to try your new mod. I've died about 12 times now. When I get swarmed, the monsters really pack a wollop!

But I'm sure I'll succeed eventually.

Cheers!

[Rollo]

I have given some thought to this (for what's that worth, LOL). While I totally agree with David that a smoother and flatter curve is much better for the later levels, I also feel that another change would be good.

IMO the lower levels are too cheap. I mean it is just too fast to get your character to, say, 8th level. Heck, just kill one or two monsters in the wilderness and you are already 2nd... slay a group of flies in the City and you are 3rd, find Little Billy and you are 5th...

I propose that the early levels should be more expensive. I worked on a system that is close to David's. I haven't put them in a new class.txt, yet. But here are the numbers. I have also included DO_standard and David's system for comparison. Thoughts/comments/flames..?

edit: ack, tabs are not working here. Here is a text file: 1050257772.txt

edit: ack again, the tabs are somehow screwed up. there, that should be viewable now...

On a somewhat related note, if we are using an altered classes.txt file anyway, how about some changes to abilities or even a new class or two? But I'll open another topic for that.

Have fun ,
Rollo

[ April 13, 2003, 19:22: Message edited by: Rollo ]

[henk brouwer]

--BUMP--

I finally started working on my mod again, and I was wondering if I could use the tweaked classes file. It seems to make things a lot more balanced compared to the default Version. (credits given in the credits.txt file ofcourse)

Henk (mod 80% finished)

[ August 25, 2003, 18:49: Message edited by: henk brouwer ]

[David E. Gervais]

Sure thing, feel free to use it to your hearts content. (In fact if you do use it, you'll save me the trouble of having to insert it myself. )

Cheers!