Re: XP from practicing

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Posted by Not An Immortal(VIP) on September 26, 2000 at 12:52:08:

In Reply to: XP from practicing posted by Cathoir on September 26, 2000 at 12:12:35:

> Would anybody else support gaining like 300xp per improvement when practicing? It certainly makes sense, in ic terms, and would motivate people to learn their crafts more. Also, it would be nice for when you just can't find a group and decide to go work some skills/spells.

Mastering your skills is reward enough, there doesn't need to be incentive in learning them if you are playing a character you are interested in keeping alive.

Besides, certain classes (ie, invokers) are required to master spells to get new ones. Figure they have to improve 30 points on 50 spells (just a rough guess), that's 300*30*50 = 450,000 experience! If they decided to never waste practice points (and let spamming scripts do all the work), they could conceivably go from 1st to 51st without ever having killed a mob. Granted, they would be 300 hours old by then, but I guarantee people would do this.

Its a good idea, in theory, but the core of a player's experience needs to come with the risks involved that accompany adventuring.

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I know, I meant to say something about a slide scale per level, I just posted this kind of hastily n/t Cathoir 15:47:50 9/26/2000 (0)
do you often risk yourself slaughtering kobolds? or standing as the transmuter who sleeps whilst others fight and just haste them...think again Graham 14:08:37 9/26/2000 (0)

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Comments:	> > Would anybody else support gaining like 300xp per improvement when practicing? It certainly makes sense, in ic terms, and would motivate people to learn their crafts more. Also, it would be nice for when you just can't find a group and decide to go work some skills/spells. > Mastering your skills is reward enough, there doesn't need to be incentive in learning them if you are playing a character you are interested in keeping alive. > Besides, certain classes (ie, invokers) are required to master spells to get new ones. Figure they have to improve 30 points on 50 spells (just a rough guess), that's 3003050 = 450,000 experience! If they decided to never waste practice points (and let spamming scripts do all the work), they could conceivably go from 1st to 51st without ever having killed a mob. Granted, they would be 300 hours old by then, but I guarantee people would do this. > Its a good idea, in theory, but the core of a player's experience needs to come with the risks involved that accompany adventuring.

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