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Date Posted: 06:51:38 03/19/04 Fri
Author: Fyrestryke
Subject:

Experience in Inzeladun

I know everyone's really into Conan right now, but I wanted to throw this idea out and see what everyone thinks about it. Please respond. ;)

What many of you may not know is that we have a house rule for lost levels (from being raised from the dead, etc.). This is for actuall level loss, not level drain. That's different.

Anyways, here's the formula:

Legend:

New XP - NXP
Current XP - CXP
Current Level Max - CLM
New Level Max - NLM

NXP = (CXP * NLM) / CLM

For example: Phaidon is a 14th level character and currently has 99,490 XP. He dies and is raised again.

Here's what the values are:

CXP - 99,490
NXP - X
CLM - 105,000
NLM - 90,000 (I think that's right.)

X = (99490*90000)/105000
X = 8954100000/105000
X = 85277 (rounded down)

So, Phaidon's new XP is 85,277. He gets to keep his abilities, but has to gain experience back to 105,000 to attain another level.

Now, for the reason I am posting. Sometimes, we get XP awards. 1,000 6,000, etc. But, sometimes Vince says "go up a level". I'm proposing that we use the same formula when Vince says "go up a level".

NXP = (CXP * NLM) / CLM

Using Phaidon again, but going to 15th level, we get:

X = (99490 * 120000) / 105000
X = 11938800000 / 105000
X = 113703 (rounded up)

So, Phaidon is now 15th level and his Experience Points total 113,703 and he's the same distance between 15th and 16th as he was between 14th and 15th.

Another rule I propose in conjunction with this is when you "go up a level", you can spend 1/2 of your XP for that level on Prestige Races (PrR), crafting items, etc.

So, for Phaidon, we would take his 113,703 and subtract the Previous Level Max (PLM) of 105,000 to get 8703 and divide that by 2 for a total of 4352 (rounded up). He can then spend 4,352 (or less) XP on things that he can "purchase" with XP. Assuming he spent all 4,352 XP, his new XP total would be 109,351 and he would continue to gain XP from that point.

Make sense? It's just simple fractional algebra. :)

Like it? Don't like it? Please comment.

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Replies:

Math is bad. -- Donald, 08:28:46 03/19/04 Fri
- Re: Math is bad. -- Fyrestryke, 09:40:08 03/19/04 Fri
  - Math is bad -- this from an engineer! -- Bob, 10:12:03 03/19/04 Fri
    - Nice... -- Fyrestryke, 10:24:25 03/19/04 Fri
      - Re: Nice... -- Craig, 11:37:45 03/19/04 Fri
        Re: Nice... -- Fyrestryke, 11:45:46 03/19/04 Fri
        Re: Nice... -- Craig, 11:52:57 03/19/04 Fri
  - two levels -- Donald, 12:59:28 03/19/04 Fri
    - Foolish person! -- Bob, 13:02:37 03/19/04 Fri
      - Donald -- Bob, 13:50:33 03/19/04 Fri
        I took no offense. (NT) -- Donald, 14:44:56 03/19/04 Fri
    - Re: two levels -- Fyrestryke, 14:11:16 03/19/04 Fri
      - Re: two levels -- EnderTheElder, 15:04:01 03/19/04 Fri
        Re: two levels -- Fyrestryke, 05:21:10 03/20/04 Sat
        Re: two levels -- EnderTheElder, 10:42:04 03/20/04 Sat
        Re: two levels -- Fyrestryke, 12:53:30 03/20/04 Sat