[CF List] New experience system on metalforge

[Mark Wedel]

Frank Muzzulini wrote:

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      That is simply not what I found on metalforge. I just went to heaven
     
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      for some minutes to raise my wisdom skill and again I found that I can
     
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      not raise it beyond 350M/lvl79, although my other skills are quite
     
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      behind.
     
     
  Yeah - I looked at the code.  IMO, this is broken, and I'll fix it.

  What I think the code was trying to do was ensure that exp for all the skills 
would never overflow the characters total experience.  IMO, it makes much more 
sense to just verify that the exp we are about to add won't make the characters 
total EXP to be above the upper limit.

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      In spite of Joel however, I really like what you describe for two
     
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      reasons. First this makes high level characters differ much more than
     
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      they do now. Second it make alchemy less abusive, since do don't
     
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      usually want mental skills take too much of a share. I surely will
     
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      drive dex quite far however, because I like to be able to disarm any
     
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      trap and steal from tough monsters. And some of these maniacs will
     
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      surely max out personality, just to be able to get on everybody elses
     
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      nerves with their cool pets again...
     
     
  Could also be interesting to add scoring information based on skill.  Eg, XYZ 
has the highest exp for wis, and ABC has the higest physical, etc.