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I find that XP gains after 50 are already slow enough. My current character is level 65 after playing entirely too long into a Nexerelin game. I doubt even the most hardcore of grinders could top 80.Why don't you test the number extremely low or extremely high to see if it works? Try 0.01 and 100. One of them should earn you 10+ levels off your first battle, the other won't even budge the meter, if it works.
Quote from: sotanaht on August 31, 2019, 01:06:36 AMI find that XP gains after 50 are already slow enough. My current character is level 65 after playing entirely too long into a Nexerelin game. I doubt even the most hardcore of grinders could top 80.Why don't you test the number extremely low or extremely high to see if it works? Try 0.01 and 100. One of them should earn you 10+ levels off your first battle, the other won't even budge the meter, if it works.I tested it out, and yeah, I reduces it significantly. The thing is, last game with Nexerelin i reached level 90 in almost no time. I picked a world in a system with many other worlds/traders- the bigger the better. Then i broke the station, raided it until the people living there begged me to Saturation bomb them already. Then i just gave it to a faction i liked. THEN i sold all the materials i raided off of' em right back to the planet. And oh boy they want A LOT and pay A LOT for about anything. Then i go to any nearby world, buy everything i can and just go to the *** world to sell. I get millions of exp just from "profitable trade". It's really broken and cheesy and that's why i need to nerf exp gain.
Did you install Skilled-up?Because that mods only porpuise is to get a better expirience curve after level 36
Strange, I can't say I ever got above 50 in level, but there you all are, with levels above 50. How odd.
How pointless it is to include mods into a discussion of vanilla balance.
So I've been trying to nerf exp gainNow the one thing I'm unsure about is this line in Starsector\starsector-core\data\config"xpGainMult":1.0,I set it to 0.7, thinking I'll only gain 70% of the experience than usual, but it feels like it's going faster instead. Should i set it to 1.3? ...
Quote from: Plantissue on September 01, 2019, 03:48:49 PMStrange, I can't say I ever got above 50 in level, but there you all are, with levels above 50. How odd.50 is the default cap. It's trivially easy to edit the settings.json file to increase the level cap further. It's not vanilla obviously.Personally, Starsector is such a long game that "replayability" via different character builds does not interest me. I believe that one should focus on a single character and see all the content they reasonably can. The vanilla level cap is primarily designed to cause alternative builds because you can't buy everything, and force different playthroughs because there is no respec feature. Additionally, I don't like the idea of late game battles being worthless. By ensuring that I continue to gain exp and levels indefinitely (or at least longer than I'm willing to play, there is a point where you would simply have every skill, but I'll never reach that), I can ensure that even battles that offer no useful loot or meaningful story progression, but are still otherwise unavoidable, offer something of value, namely exp.