Over Leveled Handicap

[Assassin]

I am maxed too...?

[maynard]

this isn't about maxed races... it's about OVER LEVELED.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

As you all know due to the way war3 works there is no "over leveling" of the races. Well in reality there is in a way b/c you do still get all the xp. However the system does not count or apply the levels beyond what the max level of said race is. What is good about this system is it allows hard limits on what needs to be leveled in order for other races to be unlocked. This is good if you want to have something like eva in the future and restrict it only for people who have maxed every race before it. However, it clearly is not good for xp rewards as they no longer work like they did in the past.

My goal is to fix this with an addon plugin that will be able to grant additional xp to players based on the "over leveled difference"

Currently you get 4xp for every level higher an enemy is than you. However it does not take into account the "over levels" as they are not counted. The goal is to make a plugin which will calculate the number of additional levels not counted by the current bonus and add those in.

So for example currently a player kills someone who has maxed a race and is 10 levels above them. They would get 40xp bonus. However, with this system the new plugin would then look to see how many additional levels the killed player would have if there was over leveling and then rewards additional xp for that. So lets say the player had an additional 10 levels of over leveling, then the plugin would reward an additional 40xp for a total bonus of 80xp to reflect the 20 level difference.

Such a system would allow for xp rewards to work EXACTLY as they did in the original wcs server.

Here are some features I propose:

• Grant 4xp for every additional currently not counted levels as calculated by the users xp for that race
• Cap on max reward xp (I assume we want something like this to prevent crazy amounts in the long run)
• Create command "showlevel" which will return a players true "over leveled" level for their current race.

So what do you all think?

yes with everything!!!

[Assassin]

Oh I get it now. It isn't by your max level amount (ie 976) it's how much each race individually is over the cap. Gotcha.

[brett friggin favre]

of course i support this idea, but yeah with a cap on how much you can get from a single kill. 250-300 would be alright, considering how hard it is to kill some people, and i don't see a problem with that. it would encourage both less race-whoring and also newer players might not mind playing with older players who have maxed races because they can get their xp up quicker that way. should increase population, keep brand new players...excellent. it does kinda belittle the accomplishments we've achieved in maxing our races the hard way, but at the same time...consider who gets kills on those with maxed races usually. other people with maxed races. it won't have too big an effect on leveling speed but enough to keep new people coming in.

[Erdenay]

876 is the current max and I am not certain how many people are maxed but If I was to guess around 40. If it's not possible it's not possible, but if you made eva a better carrot on a stick you would bring back a lot of people that left out of boredom and actually bring more of a meaning to leveling.

It's 976.

Right but that's what I'm getting at. We are the ones playing now...and don't care. Unless like wolfen and maybe tom and spasm (which is the ones I'm assuming have been here since the old one) care. The rest of us don't. I'm not trying to pick a fight with you just giving you what I see.

I'm newer than you actually - not even a year old at IBIS. Besides, posting about me/wolf/spasm every time doesn't really change anything either: both me and wolf have no real influence and are not that great of players...

[Assassin]

It's 976.



I'm newer than you actually - not even a year old at IBIS. Besides, posting about me/wolf/spasm every time doesn't really change anything either: both me and wolf have no real influence and are not that great of players...

Dude that's bs and you know it. When it comes to the people who are always team deciders you, spasm, masskid, and wolfen and gangnam too now....are at the top of that list.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Right but that's what I'm getting at. We are the ones playing now...and don't care. Unless like wolfen and maybe tom and spasm (which is the ones I'm assuming have been here since the old one) care. The rest of us don't. I'm not trying to pick a fight with you just giving you what I see.

i was on the old server too...longer than wolfen and spasm, actually...

[Squirrel]

i was on the old server too...longer than wolfen and spasm, actually...

I've been here just about as long as you, I'm pretty sure. xD

[acolyte_to_jippity]

I've been here just about as long as you, I'm pretty sure. xD

i don't think so, i started playing the WCS server summer of '09