RE: [Openme-developers] Announcement to players -revision 0.1

[Farid K. <Far...@ro...>]

With regards to experience gain/loss from combat=85

So far, to combat code allows an experience gain providing you kill a
more experienced merchant=85
And the Game Set up, says 10% experience gain=85

In chat, we were talking about a formula=85

Some ideas:
XP =3D experience; :)

1) attacker XP gain < defender XP loss
There is the idea that we don=92t =91make=92 XP when assigning XP gain, =
it
should be less than or equal to the XP loss (of the dead)

2) I think a base XP loss should be set a level increments.  Make it
less damaging for lower level merchants, and more damaging for higher
level merchants.  We can use level as an increment or set a percentage
at certain levels
For example:
-Newbie level players lose NO XP when they get podded (after discussing
it with vrm, this is the way I have it coded ATM, they also lose no
money when they die)
-Players level 10 and under lose 10%
-Every 10 levels after that lose an additional 5%, so a level 40
(Emperor) would lose 25% of their XP. (sounds harsh eh?)

Why? Why such a huge loss of XP at level 40?  I think that having more
merchants at the middling levels, and making level 40 (Emperor) a much
harder target to reach, will extend the game life in later stages.
Newer merchants won=92t be at the mercy of the high XP merchants with =
the
big damage low accuracy weapons.  And it introduces more risk.

3) XP loss can then be enhanced by racial criteria, less of a loss for
one race, more of a loss for another=85

4) XP Gain; well, XP Gain from kills does not necessarily have to equal
the XP loss.  It should NEVER be more, but can always be less.  I think
level increments in XP gain is good, make it more fruitful to hunt/kill
more experienced merchants
-Killing Newbie No XP Gain
-Base set at 5% of defender XP=20
-No bonus for killing less experienced merchants
-A 0.25% bonus for every level the defeated had on you=85 so a level 10
killing a level 20, would get him 7.5% of defender XP, a level 10
killing a level 40 would get him 12.5%, a level 20 killing a level 40
would get him 7.5%...  and so on.  A level 39 killing a level 40 get
5.25%...  Less XP gain the higher up in XP you are.

5) Dying to forces? From a base? Well I think XP loss shouldn=92t change
from what is set in item 2.

6) XP Gain from people dying to your base? I think a 5% of the attacker
XP is reasonable. =20


Comments?

Hawklan...

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Subject: [Openme-developers] Announcement to players -revision 0.1

Please read the list and see if I added somethign we dont do or missed
something. Also add details.
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Game Set up for 4th=A0generation:
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-12 galaxies=A0average size of 50 X 50.. some bigger
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-Distance index extended to a limit of 50
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-Amount of Lux ports lowered, price of lux lowered pirce of food raised
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-Mines+combat drone price raised to 10.000=A0
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-new ship list
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-new weapon list
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-XP for construction lowered
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-Construction price rise faster at the end
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Features redone:
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-ship to ship combat code. Its now one to one and no auto return fire.
Combat code made 10 times faster
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-Ship versus forces code, works the same way just faster
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-Jump drive, works the same way just faster
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-Base busting code reworked.
=A0=A0=A0 -Defender:=A0A bigger chance of someone dyign on his base
=A0=A0=A0 -Attacker A chance of=A0"wearing the base" down. Chance=A0for =
destroying
structures=A0
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-Ship technology code made smoother and faster
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New features:
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-Racial abilities=20
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-Critical hits in combat system=A0