Smoothing Xp curves

[ChaosSlayerZ]

yes I would really much like some sort of variable mult based modifier, instead of ups and downs =P
And its has to work beyond current lev of 75
Don't see whats a problem with reading XP table from the DB =P

For the record, I really don't care how much actual XP it takes to level up (in general) - cuase I have XP gained Rule which can be adjusted up and down.
I just want some way around ridiculous spikes, where previous level requires MORE XP than the next one.

[AndMetal]

I think the hardest part about loading it from the DB is we don't want to query the DB every time we run Client::GetEXPForLevel(), so we'd want to load it into memory. To do that, we need to load the info into each zone we load. Granted, it would use 4 * max levels bytes of memory per zone (300 bytes for 75 levels), but I don't know if it's really worth it for a handful of servers that would want to modify the exp tables instead of the exp gain multipliers.

Personally, I think it would be easier for a server admin to modify the function & recompile than it would be to add a table & populate it with the exp amount for each level.

I do think it would be easy to put in something to make linear exp gain, but I don't think it would work well with the rules system, since you don't really want to change exp gain on-the-fly.

[steve]

You can go from 50-60 in a couple hours now with hotzones on Live. I've done it as recent as a couple months ago.

I haven't tried regular zone exp because, frankly, there aren't enough people to group with to get a full group (except possibly Mayong, and I have no desire to play there). So it wouldn't be an accurate test to attempt to compare now vs then.

I do think the hell levels should have their exp redistributed, in accordance with the note that was posted for 51-60. Also, hell levels were gotten rid of for 30-50, so might as well do those too.