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Message ID: 12309
Date: Mon Jan 3 23:55:49 GMT 2000
Author: Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4
Subject: Question about experience penalty (OT)
> >
> > What you described may be 100% true but I don't think it applies to what
> > happened to me. Both times I died I was 30th level. The experience
> loss
> > (i.e. visual amount the bar decreased) for getting killed by the green
> mob
> > was definately more than it was for dying to the red mob. Still
> wondering
> > if other people have had similar results.
>
> How much did you lose? I've seen the same thing in hell
> levels, and I always figured it was due to roundoff error.
> e.g. Say I lose 2.5 pixels of exp per death. First death I go
> from 45.9 pixels to 43.4 pixels, or 45->43. Second death I go
> from 46.1 pixels to 43.6, or 46->43. The second death looks
> like I lost 50% more.
>
> There are also little visual tricks going on depending where
> the exp bar is within a bubble - movement near the middle is
> not as apparent as movement near the edges. Movement in the
> first and last bubbles can be completely masked when the end
> of the exp bar is obscured by the little decoration.
>
>