Levels.

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The levels should be infinite and the higer level you are the better enemys you will battle
exampel if you are level one you will met a rat if you are level 100 you will se a huge dragon ore something powerful like that.

Sorry for bad spelling :/

shit now i saw that the topic was 2 years old :/

 

Split from this thread: http://terra-arcanum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=10833

 

But the up to level 127 mod is quite good actually , use it.

 

Yes , remember , it's in the 1880's ,not Lord of The Rings.

 

I believe that NPCs should level up, slowly, but still level up. Why wouldn't a dragon get better when it kills an adventurer if you get better doing the same thing? Of course it shouldn't be as fast as the character (unless the character sleeps way too much).

I also don't think level-caps are a good way to force you to role-play. Instead, make the levels infinite and limit the amount of monsters available Like in the older thread, it's just stupid to have a level cap of 10 in ToEE for example, because a party of one will reach it quickly and then just stay there while a party o five will reach it about the time they reach the final encounter and that makes them too much stronger than the single guy.

 

Exactly, max level must be chosen so that the replayability value is maximized.

(On a side note, I like to play a god in rpg games But of course only after I've played them through)

Scaling is in most cases are simply dumb. I mean, you can't kill a freaking rat with hi-tech weapons??? That's absurd!

But, in some cases, it can be a useful thing, e.g. if I remember correctly, in Fallout the bounty hunters were (more or less) scaled.

 

Is the level cap 10 in ToEE? Didn't know , and yes , level caps are good in a way , look let's say that you are level 50 and really want to know that last spell in the Morph college....I have two very simple solutions, solution one: Use the up to level 127 mod, or solution two: Start a new game. Simple , ain't it?

 

Why shouldn't a character who develop in other areas be punished in combat?

The dragon will level pretty slowly, adventurers doesn't come visit it very often after all. While other enemies might become better at stuff outside combat.

But 5 level 10 characters would cut through the single one without any trouble even when the single character has killed 5 times as many monsters as the fighter of the 5 character party. I think that's wrong.

That you shouldn't be able to level indefinitely is something I feel is pretty obvious, but to enforce it with an artificial level cap is not a good solution.

believability. What is more believable? That your level 50 character can't learn the last spell of the Morph college because he just can't stuff those spell casting moves into the head that was extremely willing to accept them before he did those last push-ups. Or: That there is no place left to practice new spells, but if he'd find a way to practice them, he could easily learn them?

 

But , maybe there is a mod that removes the level cap that in Arcanum?

 

Yep! Download section, first item on the list.

And it is modifiable - in case 127 levels isn't enough.

 

Yeah , I know , I leveled up from 50 to 100 in a matter of seconds , quite nice eh'?

 

HOW??? Reset the points to 1 per level?

 

No , I found a very easy way , look , let's say that you are level 15 and have reset the xp values back to its normal value. Like you had earlier sert the xp value to level 15 to lets say 1500xp , but at level 16 it is normal again. When you level up to level 16 it says that jou must have like 285468xp points to the next level, save and quit the game and at level 16 in xp_mes-file it lokks like the normal value , then you delete the old value and instead simply write e.g 1600.Start the game again and now it says that you need like -346468xp to level up. Kill a kite shaman or a wolf or something and bingo...level 50 or something.!

 

O-K... Now it makes sense.

 

Did it work for you?

 

Never tried it. Call me old-fashioned, but I'm content to leave the leveling-up as is.

 

Killing the Gorgoth on Thanatos gives plenty of xp. Like a small cheat.

 

Gorgoth's not on Thanatos, he's in the void. I should know, I'm using his face as my avatar.