[CF List] Leveling at high level

[Andreas Vogl]

in reply to Mark W.:

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      Doing some quick math on the exp table, I see that at level 
     
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      50, you need 1.3 million exp to gain a level.  At level 105
     
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      of thereabouts, you only need 1.6 million.
     
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      So point #2 isn't really happening.
     
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      Before we re-do the experience table again, is the issue only 
     
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      needed for balancing about level 20 or so?
     
     
Yes, the lower levels seem fine to me.
It always took a fair amount of time for an average player
to get to level 20-30. After that, things started to go way
too fast.

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      I decided to write a quick program to generate some new 
     
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      values - this is what it came up with:
     
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      20:  8500000 (1000000)
     
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      30: 21706742 (1628886)
     
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      40: 43219053 (2653275)
     
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      50: 78260242 (4321896)
     
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      60: 135338563 (7039905)
     
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      70: 228313024 (11467251)
     
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      80: 379758508 (18678931)
     
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      90: 626447066 (30425989)
     
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      100: 1028276476 (49560700)
     
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      110: 1682813889 (80729116)
     
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      (only printed out every 10 levels to not clutter things as 
     
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      much).  First column is level, second is total exp needed for
     
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      that level, and third is the delta exp (diff needed from the
     
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      level below).  The first entry (1,000,000) was basically a
     
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      starting value to get the formula going (and it matches pretty 
     
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      closely with the current table).
     
     
Those values look quite good. IMHO the gaps could still be
higher (especially the last 10 levels), but these values
are definitly a LOT better than what we have today.
Personally I'm abit out of the server code and I don't
know how high one could set the values before trouble
starts.

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      Other than rounding off the values some, this certainly 
     
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      makes higher levels cost more.  The actual multiplier here is
     
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      that the amount of exp needed to gain 
     
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      next level is 5% more than for this level.
     
     
Yes, let's just try it out. If modifying the levels[] array
in "common/living.c" is all that needs to be done, that'd be easy.


AndreasV