Experience system...
 

I'm debating whether or not i want to start woring on an experience system. I pretty much know how I want it laid out, and how to go about doing it, but I have a few questions regarding "short cuts."

Okay, on GK for example, when get to a certain level, you need x amount of exp to level up. Does this have to be done by something like
"if (theexperience>=thenumberblah) {
the level goes up one;
}"
for every individual level, or could I use something mathematical?
I don't want to have to go and add all of the codes manually, but I was wondering if there was a set or a few lines that I could make it with to determine when the player needs to level up.

Well, if your numbers have some form of pattern, then yes its possible.

NPC Code:

---

//Example Only. 

//This is a simple one that increases the Experience Gap between each level by 100.

//Assumes you dont reset Experience each level.

if (Experience > (Level^2 + Level)*50) {

  ...

}

---

You could also have all the ammounts stored in an array and then just look through it using thier current level as the index.

NPC Code:

---

//Example Only. 

ExperienceAmmounts = {0,100,300,600,1000}; //Etc...

if (Experience > ExperienceAmmounts[Level]) {

  ...

}

---

If the scripts are wrong well meh its late. They're just examples anyway.

Yeah, I think you got the gist of what I was trying to show with my example.
I was going to store them in an array, but I've never really toyed with them before. you'd get them like this, right?
experienceammounts = {0,100,300,600};

if (experience >= #I(experienceammounts,2)){
blah
}

right? I've never used string arrays before, if that's what I would use.

They're arent string arrays; they're just arrays, so experienceammounts[2] would work.

oh, gotcha.

The syntax for them is experienceammounts[portion#]?
Does it start at 0,1,2,...etc or 1,2,3,...etc?

Arrays start at 0

Arrays start at 0, which is why I added the experience ammount 0 at the start of my example, thus meaning if you are level 0 you need 0 experience to level up lol.

You could always access them with somthing like 'ExperienceAmmounts[Level - 1]' instead, so that when you are Level 1, it looks at Position 0 (ie: the first position) in the array.