What would you change about P1999?

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Originally Posted by Shaakglith12194 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's not how experience works. Groups do not get exp penalties, players do. Experience distributed is based on exp totals, not level, not race, not class. Experience totals. Read this:

http://wiki.project1999.com/Game_Mec...perience_Works

Originally Posted by Shaakglith12194 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Again, read http://wiki.project1999.com/Game_Mec...perience_Works

That is a patch note from Live EQ that you posted. In it, it states that experience before that letter worked as it is stated in the wiki. Here's a quote: "So we chose to distribute experience in the group on the basis of the total experience of each member rather than the level, in order to keep groups together. "

The way they changed it, and remember that this is Live, not P1999: "This means that we must address the penalty differently: basically, for every kill, after all grouping bonuses and zone bonuses are applied, the experience will be split up according to level, rather than experience."

Also, that patch happened over a month after Velious was released. Velious has not released on this server.

tl;dr That's not how experience works on Project1999. Read http://wiki.project1999.com/Game_Mec...perience_Works

This is a comparison for illustrative purposes but not accurate to true values.


Shadow Knight Trolly is level 30 and he just dinged. He has 168,000 total experience
Warrior Halflingy is level 30 and he just dinged. He has 89,500 total experience
Assume level 30 for a character with no penalty/bonus is 100,000

Halflingy and Trolly team up and kill an Orc. This Orc is worth 1000 experience points.

Trolly has nearly twice as much experience already at this point as Halflingy so Trolly gets more experience. Because it is proportional to the total amount of experience earned Trolly gets roughly 650 exp while Halflingy gets 350.

If Halflingy had teamed up with halflingette the level 30 Female Halfling Warrior, both of them would have received 500 experience points.

As it stands, Halflingy was penalized 150 experience points for grouping with Trolly because Trolly took a greater % of the total experience available.

You're arguing the semantics of the situation. Trolly has to gain more experience per kill to level up than Halflingy in order for Trolly and Halflingy to level up at the same rate while grouped. This means Halflingy is sharing Trollys penalty by receiving less experience than he would get if he grouped with Halflingette.