Experience Points (Page 3 of 4)

Well for your example the player healing the battle mage, the player also risks dieing too now since hes in combat. I'm hoping AI will be smarter to attack healers now, so when a player heals someone that monster can turn and attack him. Yea the battle mage didn't need the healing but since he will be fully healed he doesn't need heal himself meaning he saves mana for other spells and able to straight away attack another monster, meaning he should get the same amount of xp over time.
But yea might be more flaws too, thats why I sorta was just meaning in a party.

I know I wasn't really proving anything I kinda agree if my system is just for parties. Unless theres a way from people stealing xp.

Mumblee, the pets comment was mine, not Zer's.

Good point, Tim.  Then you could have power levleing by exploited exp calculations.  If there is a way, players will find it.

You mean my idea about xp based on lvl in party.  

You could just do this: (Not for parties, just basic single person fighting)

If a player hits a monster then that monsters experience will go to that person.  If a player doesn't hit the monster for say 5 seconds then the experience is up for grabs.  When the person hits a monster it checks to see if the monster is "available" then designates the experience to that person if the monster is "available" then when the person attacks again it resets the 5 second timer keeping the monster theirs.  Just another thought since the main methods so far mentioned were all about splitting experience points based on damage.

Thinking back, I remember when I played Final Fantasy Online before my trial ran out and I remember that you couldn't attack a monster that was "taken" by someone else.  The way it worked was that when PlayerA attacked a monster that monster tageted that person.  Following what I outlined above about 5 seconds and what not, if PlayerB attacked it while it was still taken then it simply didn't attack it.  PlayerB would just stand next too it, and it wouldn't attack.  This might be able to go hand in hand with the idea of clicking a town gaurd it only attacks in a certain "mode".  Maybe each creature could have an attribute that is either on or off that would control wether or not the creature is fightable.  That would help with the town guard situation, and maybe in the first come first serve experience method.

It's a tough issue for any game. How do you decide who gets what?

I agree with Aaron about many of his ideas, but not about experience awarded for damage done.

Potential problems I see:

-Grouped healer gets no XP
-Higher levels just keep getting higher since they do the most damage
-Less incentive to work with people stronger than you if the exp is split

Of course most people in recent Faldons have solo leveld most or all of the way. I think really you need mobs that have a ton of HP and hit for lower amounts. As for the experience itself, I think it should be a flat reward to all in the group that lands the first few hits. It would then be modified on a percentage basis determined by level difference between enemy and each player, to avoid Power Levelling low levels and higher levels camping easy monsters.

On the issue of experience I think something should be done to correct the disparities between new players and the level 500+ people that have been playing forever. Whether that solution should be the old cubed experience equation, speeding up early levels, or a level cap I don't know. Holy aura has never really been an effective solution to people mass killing lower levels.