On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:42:40PM -0500, Mike Stilson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:56:23PM -0600, David Cole wrote:
> >I'm trying to think of a way to make players actually loss EXP and if the
> >loss of EXP excedes a certain amount, say the actual EXP needed to level,
> >then they loss that level. I'm using formulas for all my EXP tables so I
> >can't really call to a case statment or anything, I been wondering how to do
> >this for a few days now, I have a few ideas but nothing solid. I figured I
> >could mail the list and maybe get some pointers or possibly some decent to
> >good ideas, anyone care to comment or lay down some solid ideas or comments?
>
> Somewhere in gain_exp I think it is, if gain<0 just add something to do
> if((get_exp(ch)) < exp_to_level(ch, level-1) * [ here you add something,
> whether it's a % or something from a table or whatever ]) { do
> delevelling code }
>
> so, say.. if((get_exp(ch) < (exp_to_level(ch, get_level(ch)-1) * 0.90))
> would delevel them if they're more than 10% below what they needed to
> gain their current level.
Also remember that you'll need to "unlevel" them in the delevelling
code. What you will need to do is keep a data structure for each
character that stores point gains for each level they gain; when
someone has to go down a level, you have the right data to put them
back where they were.
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