sehracii wrote:I'm curious why they're including some 200 zone mobs (like bolobi in Bog) in this as well. What niche is that suppsoed to fill? If the old kind are too little XP move to a 250 zone.....
I'd guess because it's easier (and more consistant) to change all bolobis everywhere, than to only change the bolobis in the purple zones. Same for the other mobs. There simply are no herbivores that only exist in purple zones, so they had to pick some that also exist in red zones.
I'd be interested to see how this change will affect the predator/herbivore relations in those regions, specially Bog, because bolobis in particular are already quite powerfull for herbies and often kill the cuttlers that attack them. With 5 times as much health they may well be able to rule the Bog. Though I suppose it's possible they'll change the modified mobs so that predators don't attack them, like how it seems to be for mektoubs already.
sidusar wrote:It's been a while since I ran around whacking all kinds of different creatures and writing down what experience I got from them, trying to find the pattern behind it
Okay, since gathering information is my favorite activity anyway, I spent the day travelling all over Atys while blasting, slashing, whacking and knifing every mob I could find for exp. So now I can be sure my results are accurate.
The basic experience equation for soloing mobs above your level is indeed as I stated: 1000 + 100 * ( mob level - your level ). For mobs below your level the equation is too complicated for me to figure out at a glance, so I'll just give some of the numbers: A mob one level lower than you gives 959 exp, two levels lower than you gives 922 exp, three levels lower gives 886 exp, four levels lower gives 855 exp, five levels lower gives 823 exp, ten levels lower gives 660 exp, twenty levels lower gives 62 exp, and 49 levels lower gives 1 exp.
Two-thirds of all the creatures in the world give exactly these amounts of experience, but a number of creatures give 50% bonus on top of this basic experience. These creatures are: bawaabs, bodocs, bolobis, cloppers, gingos, kibans, lumpers, mektoubs, ocyx, ploderos, torbaks, tyranchas, yelks, and zerx. Then there's kipees, who give a 100% bonus on top of the basic experience, and kinchers, who as far as I could tell give a 150% bonus (I could only solo the two weakest kinchers though, so might be off here).
I obviously didn't kill every single mob on Atys, so there may be exceptions to the above. I assumed that if one tyrancha gave 50% more exp than it should for it's level, then all tyranchas do.
Creatures I can't solo and thus couldn't determine how much exp they give: kidinak, kinrey, jugula, vorax, and yetin. For every other mob that's not on the above list, including plants and primates, I've killed at least one of them to confirm they give only the basic exp.
