I'm pretty sure that the Beyond Divinity formula doesn't apply, I know for sure that the exp negation over 8 lvls doesn't, and if the gains were completely exponential, then killing a lvl 45 mob at lvl 1 would reward a incomprehensible amount of exp (rather than just 44,000). I suspect that there are exponents in the function, whatever it may be, but that they are pretty staggered. But I'll doublecheck that 8 lvl business right now.
Ugh, I was hoping there'd be some super sekrit file that'd list the function as it applies to every mob...if I actually start building a dataset for hypotheses I might kill myself lol. I guess it might be somewhere in the .000 files, but they come back as gibberish no matter how I try to read them, and I sure don't wanna learn to use DOS to do it.
As for the beginner tips: lolz. I think I got a grip on that stuff, I was just wondering if people who had played hard in depth shared my awe, but I guess not. I still think it's ridiculous, dunno if I'm going to continue, given what I've been resorting to for killing bosses (lotsa burning wall).
edit: yup, I killed a lvl 11 orc with a lvl 26 pc and got 269 exp. However, I got nothing for a lvl 9 orc. Didn't try lvl 10, having exterminated all members of that lvl lol
Last edited by elk; 01/07/10 07:38 PM.
