[CF-Devel] Various exp refinements.

[Mark Wedel]

Tim Rightnour wrote:
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     If a player killing another player had no negative impact on the dead
     
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     character, then when you get in trouble, have someone else kill you before
     
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     the monster does.
     
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      If you can plan out having someone else kill you at the right time.. why
     
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      couldn't you have just avoided death?  I mean.. usually I don't know I'm doomed
     
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      long enough in advance to tell anyone a complex scheme of how they need to off
     
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      me.  Usually, it's a complete surprise, or preceeded by .5 seconds of panic.
     
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      However.. The idea of "you can slaughter eachother with no penalties" does
     
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      bring up a more evil thought.
     
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      Lets say I wanted to be a PITA to newbies.  So I run around following them, and
     
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      kill them back to the inn every time they step outside of town.  It doesn't
     
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      affect them.. just that they never get anywhere.  You could also kill someone
     
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      back to the inn who was doing an area you wanted to play in, to get them out of
     
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      the way.
     
     
  Note that if the player is a real newby (just came from the hall of 
selection), currently killing him has no real negative impact, as he doesn't 
have any experience to use.

  I didn't mention this, but I did figure that if a player was killed, he'd 
still get depleted in whatever stats.  That probably isn't a very big penalty at 
high levels (you have the money, so the cost of potion of life probably isn't a 
really big deal).

  Note that the player who killed the other player does lose a point of luck, 
which will have some effects.

  Perhaps a more clever approach would be to record the number of players 
another player has killed (in the player object itself) - if above some number, 
assume it is an abusive pk'er, and add additional penalties (ideally, there 
would be some aging to this, eg, killing 10 players over the course of playing 
for 8 months isn't nearly so bad as if you killed 5 players in a single day, but 
to enforce that/prevent people from easily fooling that would be tricky).

  Now I suppose you could make killing another player result in not as heavy as 
a loss for the player killed (instead of the 20%, maybe 5% or a max of 1 level 
or something?).

  I'm not sure that if there was no exp gain/loss for killing players if it 
would change behaviour much - I don't think a bunch of people who are currently 
not pker's will become ones on the basis of 'there really isn't a penalty'.  It 
seems that generally, pker's are there just to be annoying.