On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, James Schuldes wrote:

>
> big nuke but agro'd the Killer who snarfed me. Got snarfed 2 times and lost
> a half of a bub and then some (lost my level too.) P.o.'d, I camped him to
> get Sylly (40 bardette) and brought her over for CR and what have you.
> Somehow she managed to get killed too but thankfully showed _very_ minimal

Sylly is a girl? :-O

Learn something new each day...

> So, while it's hard to gain XP in a Hell Level - it seems that each time you
> are killed - there is less loss than in other levels. FYI - I have heard

Hard to tell if it's actually less, or if it's the same as
other levels and just looks like less. Trying to reverse
engineer the experience formula was never a hobby of mine.

> that the Hell plus One levels are one-bub death penaltys for each time you
> die - maybe only 46? Or 41 and 46? I don't remember 31 nor 36 to be
> particularily bard - well, 31 was cuz I wanted 32 so badly.

I carried my "don't really care about experience" attitude
into 31. Died 3 times at 31, lost about 90% of a bubble each
time (except the time I got dropped to 30). The third time it
dropped me to 2.5 bubbles. That's when I realized if I'd been
more careful, I would've already been 32. I now stress to all
my friends to play it safe at hell levels + 1. It is better
to let two of your friends die than to let yourself die if
you're in a HL+1. It is just not worth dying in them and your
#1 priority should be getting out of them ASAP.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...