At 11:23 PM 1/15/01 -0600, you wrote:

>Heh! You must have read Kelijimmiehat (or whatever the hell his name is)'s
>posts about how this is really a nerf no matter how many different folks
>tried to explain it. ;o)
>
>-=B=-

actually he never really said it was a nerf, he just said they were moving the exp penalty.
which COULD be the case depending on how verant programs level checks. if they really
have a separate experience table to check against for each value of experience penalty,
i.e. one for troll sk's, one for iksar monks, etc, etc, then the system they have works fine.

if they create one experience table and ''normalize'' experience to it, i.e. calculate experience
by this formula: Exp_gained = Base_exp * class_pen * race_pen, then they have really
just moved the penalty, although it is much more easily avoided, as in get a rez or just don't
die.