Re: CF: suggestion for Exp system (damage vs. kill)

[Anthony Thyssen <anthony@cit.gu.edu.au>]

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl?= Quinet on  wrote...
| The system for gaining experience in CrossFire has been discussed
| many times on this list, with the most common question being "why
| don't I get experience points when I damage a monster without
| killing it?".
| 
| Here is a suggestion: keep two separate fields in the object struct
| for the monsters (exp and kill_exp).  When loading a map, half of
| the exp specified in the file is stored in each field.  Then the
| experience points would be awarded as follows:
| ...
| In the end, it is still the same 600 points that are distributed.
| But instead of being distributed all at once, they are distributed
| according to who did the real work: player A gets 280 points (90 +
| 90 + 100), player B gets 220 points (120 + 100) and player C only
| gets 100 points because he has not damaged the monster.
| 
| This system is also useful in single-player mode, because the
| points would be awarded to the correct skill.  So you could damage
| a monster with "holy word", finish it with a bow, and get some
| experience for each skill, instead of everything on "missile
| weapons" as you would get with the current system.
| 
| Of course, the exp gains are adjusted according to the respective
| levels of the players, as in the current system.
| 
This sounds like a good solution. 

However If you ar not really tough enough to kill a monster but can hit
it safely somehow, you can gain experience.  In the case of a high
regeration monster (trol) that could be quite a lot of experience.

Easy way to go up levels, find a trapped troll, and shoot arrows at it.

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  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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