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| − | The formulas for gains (or loses) are based on your current [[Stats]] at the time of the event, limited by your MAXSTAT for that stat. Therefore, if your base stat is below your max stat, you may consider donning gear to boost your stat when you get close to leveling. This phenomenon is known as wearing your "leveling gear", so that you maximize gains from each level. | + | *The formulas for gains (or loses) are based on your current [[Stats]] at the time of the event, limited by your MAXSTAT for that stat. Therefore, if your base stat is below your max stat, you may consider donning gear to boost your stat when you get close to leveling. This phenomenon is known as wearing your "leveling gear", so that you maximize gains from each level. |
| − | + | *When you die, all of your gear is instantly removed and all non-permanent buffs are instantly removed. If this results in delevelling, then your losses will be based on this naked, unbuffed state. | |
| − | When you die, all of your gear is instantly removed and all non-permanent buffs are instantly removed. If this results in delevelling, then your losses will be based on this naked, unbuffed state. | + | *You will stop earning experience once you are 2% over maximum level (roughly 7,000 XP above level 91). |
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Experience Points
Experience points are an abstract commodity which detail how well-versed your character is in his/her class. Experience points can be awarded for a variety of actions, and may be weighted by your target's level. You can use the EXPERIENCE command to see how much experience you have earned. If you just want a numerical display of your experience you can use STAT XP to see your current experience or STAT XPTNL to see how much experience you need to level. Alternatively, you may add experience, or experience till next level, in your PROMPT.
Earning Experience Points
Some of the methods of earning experience in the Official CoffeeMUD are recorded in the following table.
| XP Type | XP Amount | XP Scaling | Classes | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common-Skill-Failure Lottery | Base (50) | Fixed | All | Awarded when you are gathering a resource, but something prevents the resource from being in the room after you gather it (probably due to the rooms resource changing from the time you started gathering until the time you complete gathering). |
| Killing | Base (100) | Sliding | All (except Scholar) | No XP is awarded for killing MOBs more than 6 levels lower than you. Alignment difference may also affect XP gained. |
| Ship Combat | Large (500) | Constant | All | Sailors and Pirates earn double experience for ship combat. |
| Teaching Other | Base (100) | Constant | All | Scholars earn double experience from teaching others. |
| Vassaling | Percentage | Constant | All | When another player SERVEs you earns XP, you gain 10% of what they earn. |
| Questing | Varies | Quest-specific | Quest-specific | |
| Gathering | Trickle (1) | Constant | Apprentice, Artisan, Gaoler, Sailor (fishing-type) | Sailors earn double experience for fishing-type gathering. |
| Crafting | Base (100) | Sliding | Artisan | XP is awarded based on item level, time to craft, and times recently crafted. A trickle amount is also awarded during the crafting process. |
| Sea Exploration | Small | Constant | Sailor | |
| Writing | Small | Time-limited | Scholar | XP is based on the amount of coherent words written on some item. Only a certain amount of writing XP may be earned each MUDDAY based on the character's level. |
| Scholaring | Small (25) | Time-limited | Scholar | Scholars earn a bonus once per MUDDAY for using abilities in the Education Lore, Arcane Lore, Nature Lore, Combat Lore or Calligraphy domains. |
| Library Finding | Moderate (50) | Constant | Scholar | The first time a scholar discovers a room with a permanent librarian or book seller, they will earn this bonus. |
| Exploration | Bard and subclasses | Experience gained for entering a new area, exploring 50% and exploring 90% of an area. This includes land, sea, air, and underground areas. | ||
| Pub Finding | Moderate (50) | Constant | Bard and subclasses | Each new pub discovered awards a small amount. A pub is any stationary vendor that sells alcohol. |
| Converting | Moderate (50) | Constant | Cleric and subclasses | Trivial amount for converting mobs, moderate amount for converting players |
| Holding Services | Cleric and subclasses | |||
| Greening Cites | Druid and subclasses | Gain experience for planting within a city. | ||
| Weather balancing | Druid and subclasses | Gain experience for balancing the weather (making the weather neutral in an area where it was tended towards one extreme or another). | ||
| Liberating Animals | Druid and subclasses | Gain experience for releasing (NOFOLLOW) pets from shops or charmed animals from within a city back into the wild. A city is defined as an area that has a certain percentage of city roads. The wilds is defined as an outdoor area without the requisite number of roads. | ||
| Protecting the Wild | Timed | Druid and subclasses | Earned by maintaining a druidic connection with a wilderness area by having plants in many of the area's rooms. | |
| Conquering | Fighter and subclasses | Bonus experience for conquering an area. | ||
| Dueling | Fighter and subclasses | Bonus experience for dueling other players. | ||
| Thieving | Minor | Sliding | Thief and subclasses | Bonus experience for using certain thief skills. |
The XP Amount indicates the base value of the amount of experience earned per successful experience gain: trickle (very, very small amount), minor, small, moderate, base, or large. The XP Scaling column indicates how the XP Amount is modified: Constant means that the XP Amount is the same for each event. Sliding means the XP amount varies based on the level difference between the target and the character. Time-limited indicates that only a certain amount of experience may be awarded each time increment. Timed means that the XP is awarded periodically over time.
Role-playing Experience (RXP)
Some servers may provide additional experience points for role-playing actions, such as chatting with fellow players, making introductions or using SOCIALS.
Losing Experience Points
Certain actions can cause a player to lose experience points.
| XP Type | XP Amount | XP Scaling | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death | Level-based | Sliding | Each death can cause you to lose a significant amount of XP, based on your level. Some of this experience may be recovered if you receive a Resurrect or similar affect. |
| Fleeing | Enemy Level-based | Sliding | You will lose XP for fleeing from enemies, the amount varies with how many enemies you flee from and increases if your enemies are lower level than you. |
| Quests | Varies | Varies | Some quests could award you negative experience. |
| Vassals | 10% | Varies | If your vassals lose experience, you will lose 10% of that experience. Choose your vassals wisely. |
| Abilities | Varies | Varies | Some abilities may have experience costs associated with using them, such as Wish and Alchemy |
| Rebuking a Deity | Large | Varies | Rebuking a Deity will result in significant experience loss, and even moreso for a cleric-based character. Certain actions/infidelities can result in you automatically rebuking a deity (such as falling out of the deities follower requirements for an extended period of time). |
Experience Point Modifiers
Many effects in the game can result in you earning more or less experience than the basic amount of experience for that action. The table below outlines some (most?) of the modifiers for earning experience.
| Event | XP Modifier | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Alignment | -0% to -50% | Having opposed alignments will earn you the most experience for killing enemy mobs. Having the same alignment as the mob will net you only 50% of the experience for killing the mob as someone of opposed alignment. |
| Clan Tax | -0% to -25% | Each clan may tax you up to 25% of your experience, which then goes into the clan experience coffers. Anarchies have no clan tax ever. |
| Conquered Territories | -0% to -25%, or *0 | Killing mobs in a territory conquered by a clan other than your own will cause you to pay *that* clan tax rate. Killing mobs in a territory conquered by your clan will earn you no experience. |
| SERVE | -10% | Serving a liege with the SERVE command will result in you earning 10% less experience (which the liege-lord gains). Serving can actually be beneficial to the vassal, since the liege lord will want you to gain as much XP as possible, and should provide you with enhanced gear and/or leveling advice. |
| Grouping | Varies | In general, the base XP for a kill is increased for each eligible member in your group, and then the XP divided out by the total number of eligible members in your group. Having a bard in your group will greatly increase the base XP for the kill. Certain classes (necromancer, beastmaster) may have special handling of group experience. Individual XP per kill from a group will almost never be higher than a solo kill, but the kills should be faster, and therefore your group may level faster than independent activities. |
| Special Mobs | Varies | Special Mobs can have radically different experience modifiers. |
| Special Areas | Varies | Special Areas can radically modify experience gains. |
| Planar Instances | Varies | Certain planar instances can radically modify experience gains. |
Deferred Experience
Some servers may DEFER your experience gains, meaning that while you earn the experience points for various actions, you won't receive them until you return to a class trainer and use the unmodified TRAIN command. If your server uses deferred experience, you may only receive experience once per MUDDAY in this fashion, and you can never receive more experience than 1 point below the required experience for two levels higher than your current level (meaning, you may only gain experience enough for you to gain 1 level, and be just shy of gaining the second level).
Leveling
When a character has earned enough experience to advance to the next level, several things happen all at once:
- The character advances one level in their current class.
- The character gains one train point.
- The character gains hit points, mana points, movement points, and practice points according to class formulas.
- The character gains bonus hit points, mana points, movememnt points and practice points according to any racial or class abilities.
- The character gains new abilities and expertises according to their new level. These abilities may be granted from the player's race, class or achievements.
- The character may qualify for new abilities and expertises in their QUALIFY list.
Deleveling
If a character looses too much experience, they will lose a level in their current class. If this would take them below level 0 in their current class, and they have other class levels, they would lose the current class, and lose a level from one of their other classes (which would become their new class). If this would take them below total level 1, they remain level 1 in their starting class.
Any abilities that the character no longer qualify for will remain on their abilities list, but the character will not be able to use or benefit from them until they re-qualify for the ability.
Notes
- The formulas for gains (or loses) are based on your current Stats at the time of the event, limited by your MAXSTAT for that stat. Therefore, if your base stat is below your max stat, you may consider donning gear to boost your stat when you get close to leveling. This phenomenon is known as wearing your "leveling gear", so that you maximize gains from each level.
- When you die, all of your gear is instantly removed and all non-permanent buffs are instantly removed. If this results in delevelling, then your losses will be based on this naked, unbuffed state.
- You will stop earning experience once you are 2% over maximum level (roughly 7,000 XP above level 91).
Subcategories
This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
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Pages in category "Experience"
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