On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4 wrote:

>
> I haven't experienced this for myself (I didn't die while I was 31st) but
> some friends of mine have and this is their theory. The theory is that that
> there are three different level types: regular levels, hell levels, and
> hell+1 levels. The EXP required to get through each level type is
> different. For example purposes, lets say it take 2000 EXP points to get
> from 34 to 35 level (regular). To get from 35 to 36 it takes 4000 EXP
> points (hell). From 36 to 37 it only takes 1000 EXP points (hell +1).
> However, when you die, you lose the same amount of experience no matter what
> level you are. So in this case, dying at 34th amounts to 1/2 bar loss, 1/4
> bar lossat 35, and a full bar at 36. The end result is that when you die
> during a hell+1 level, it appears that you lose more EXP because the EXP bar
> drops more than it would if you were in a regular or hell level. But in
> actuality you lost the same amount of EXP. The converse to this is that
> because it doesn't take as much EXP to gain the next level at hell+1 levels,
> you can actually recover the lost EXP much faster.
>
> Like I say this is all just a theory but I do know that it only took me one

Yes, this is exactly why I started this thread.

If the exp loss per death was the same regardless of level,
then my deaths at 31 and 47 should've resulted in the same exp
loss as dying at 30 and 46. They did not, which is strong
evidence that this theory is wrong.

Do you understand why I made it a point to use only deaths
which ocurred without my having gained *any* experience into
the new level? That way the exp loss was for the new level,
but was applied entirely to the old level, letting me do a
direct comparison to deaths in the old level.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...