On Thursday, November 06, 1997 8:56 PM, Co-Sysop
[SMTP:dmodem@CYBNETONLINE.COM] wrote:
> At 11:51 PM 11/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Co-Sysop wrote:
> >>have one probably. When I try to advance someone to a high level (to imp
> >>someone for example) it doesn't advance them to the level I wanted. For
> >>example:
> >
> >Make sure your xp table always increases for every level. (Run the
> >'levels' command.) It can happen...
>
> Well would you look at that... It turns out the amount of exp needed
> became so large it became negative.
I liked handling exp differently (back when I used it)...
The idea was that exp was a bank account. You cashed in
exp to gain levels. If you ever got to -(exp_to_level) you were
permanently dead. This didn't kick in until level 10..
An idea... hopefully worth the bandwidth required to send it :-)
--Mallory
Neither sweat, nor blood, nor frustration, nor lousy manuals
nor missing parts, nor wrong parts shall keep me from my task.
--Christopher Hicks
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