Testing 194: Epic Skills, Skill Sets and the Exchange!

[james]

@OmniUno

Reduce XP gained and luck for a non-avoidable period after death (1-2mins?). The main reason then why players would try to avoid dying is an interest in loot or XP - which covers almost everything possible in-game.

This also doesn’t affect what has already been earned making it less likely to feel bad but still punitive enough to be something to avoid.

The problem with reducing XP gained for a period after being defeated is that players could just sit-out the period if it was based on time.

We could hit them with an “XP Down” status effect which you need to “work off”. For example: 50% XP until you’ve earned 1000XP.

But we’d likely need to make this proportional to your current level to make it even for Lvl 1 and Lvl 50 players, so it’d become:

• XP Down status effect to 50% XP until you’ve earned 5% of your current level XP.

But isn’t this identical to a straight reduction in XP?

We can add “Luck Down” and “Stats Down” to the Defeated Status effect.

@Havok40k

Going long periods of time while avoiding death can grant a lucky boon on the player, granting better drops and rewards. However, repeated deaths cause a temporary unlucky bane that reduces luck for a period of time, with repeated deaths stacking this effect to until no items drop.

If it was play time based (like other status effects) then it encourages players to “wait out” the status effect.

@Kal-El

4- I am not sure that this affects veterans and newer players equally. As an example, if you are hunting, both players get 1000xp for tagging a cuttle that is killed. if the veteran is level 50 he/she takes a 10,000xp hit. while the level 10 player takes significantly less. They both get the same xp for identical activities but the veteran is punished more. Unless you fix the xp hit at a specific amount, there is not much you can do about it. The method in testing might be the best way even if it is flawed.

In general we make the assumption that Lvl 1 players are mining + killing for lower XP, whereas Lvl 50 players are mining + killing on harder worlds for higher XP.