Experience system...

[Torankusu_2002]

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.

[Polo]

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.

[Torankusu_2002]

Originally Posted by Polo

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

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.

[ForgottenLegacy]

Originally Posted by Torankusu_2002

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.

[Torankusu_2002]

Originally Posted by ForgottenLegacy

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?

[Riot]

Arrays start at 0

[Polo]

Originally Posted by Torankusu_2002

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, 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.