[crossfire] exp loss changes

[Rick Tanner]

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On 10/9/11 12:13 AM, Mark Wedel wrote:
> 
> After long last, I've started work on the skill system I suggested
>  at:
> 
> http://wiki.metalforge.net/doku.php/user:mwedel:skills
> 
> (it helps to have some free time between jobs)

If that means what I think it does.. very sorry to hear this.

> On that page, in the notes, I mention that level loss will not 
> result in loss of AP - rather, it just means that it will take 
> longer before they get any new ones.

Very interesting.

> With such a method, I was thinking that instead of decreasing exp 
> from the player total, instead add a new field like exp_penalty or
>  exp_loss. When a player dies, that field is increased by 
> appropriate amount- exp_loss += (exp - exp_loss) * 
> death_penalty_ratio.
> 
> Then, any earned experience after that point gets applied to 
> exp_loss first, and only when that is zero, does exp get applied to
> normal total.

By chance could some of this exp loss by death or drain be regained
through quest items/rewards or other in game mechanics?



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