Experience Gained

Lycanthor · #1 08-23-2005, 03:28 AM

Is there a way to show how much experience was gained from the last encounter, discovery, quest completion, etc?

I'd love to see "You've gained 2.45% experience from the encounter!" or just a simple "2.45%" located somewhere on the UI.

-LyCaNtHoR (Highkeep)

taco-man · #2 08-23-2005, 03:36 AM

do any windows show when you gain experience (sorry its been a long time since i have played eq2)?

Lycanthor · #3 08-23-2005, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by taco-man

do any windows show when you gain experience (sorry its been a long time since i have played eq2)?

No. It just says "You gain experience!" in the chat window.

Nojiko · #4 08-23-2005, 04:00 AM

I would also support this feature being added somehow. That sounds like a good idea, if it can be added at all, that is.

With the ones that constantly show your percentage on screen of course, it's easier to keep track that you had 33% and then you had 34%. :P Just don't know the exact amount and you have to keep track of what's giving you the most exp. Something like this could let you gauge what's giving you the most exp-per-encounter, easily.

Lycanthor · #5 08-23-2005, 04:10 AM

Exactly. As much as I just love doing math, I'm pretty sure my overgrown calculator of a PC would be much better suited to instantly calculating the gained experience. I've read some posts where people were upset that they can't see the exact number of experience points. That doesn't bother me. I'd be happy knowing a percentage down to 2-3 decimal places.

If experience gain could be dumped into chat window, I could definately see someone making a logfile parser to keep track of kills and experience gains. Wouldn't it be nice to keep a record of your greatest experience gains and the MOBs that gave it?!

taco-man · #6 08-23-2005, 04:49 AM

i think there would be a way to make a manual one, but without anything to use to trigger(that i know of) you would have to push a button before you gained exp, and then again after you gained exp. of course once you did it initially you would just hit the button every time you killed something (since you hit it the time before that to find out what the experience was) if that makes any sense at all LOL

Magus · #7 08-23-2005, 05:30 AM

In other words, no, not really

It would be so convuluted and annoying that it wouldn't be worth it

Pyroman · #8 08-23-2005, 07:58 AM

It still confuses me why people just don't like the percentage exp system you can find on countless exp mods. Exp down to one decimal point should be easy enough and if your getting exp that doesn't increase the decimal spot your fighting the wrong stuff. Plus its not hard math.

Some mob gives you .2% exp. So 5 of them gives you 1%. 50 of them give you 10%. 500 give 100%. It might rarely give you .1 or .3 since its probably not exactly .2%

Lycanthor · #9 08-23-2005, 02:38 PM

My UI does show the decimal percentage. I know how to do the math, it's just inconvienient. I just don't think I should have to considering this is something that should obviously be already included.

It's like going to buy a car and realizing that the Mercedes you want has every feature you want except for the trip odometer. The salesman tells you that it's not a big deal because you can do that simple math in your head for every trip by looking at the main odometer and figuring out the difference.

Magus · #10 08-23-2005, 03:52 PM

Then go /feedback it or post on the official UI forums, this isn't something we can just tack on.