Game Mechanics: max exp per kill

[Furniture]

Remember back in classic how druid powerleveling was the most effective and powerleveling wasnt as easy back then for other classes as it is now?

I distinctly remember there being an exp cap per kill back in the day.

Upon research, i found:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/alt.games.everquest/exp$20cap/alt.games.everquest/wD46Ujyo5dE/ENVOQs2uyeoJ


"You can (I believe) never receive more than 1/11 of a level
from a single kill regardless of what you kill. "

"I think it's actually 11%, which is a little more. But yeah, it's capped
at about that much. "

"Yes there is a Cap and it is around 10 - 11% with the exception of this is
is zones with exp Bonuses "

"my impression was the cap on how much you can gain is a hard cap period...
ie, on a kill you might get 2% of a level, but with zone bonus of say 35%
you'd get 2.7%... whereas if you got 9% base, with a 35% bonus, you'd
still only get 11% (not the 12.15% the bonus would seem to entitle you
to). "




In regards to quest exp cap : "Hmmmm can't find it but thought I saw quest exp could get to 20% cap.
"



I doubt the powerlevelers are going to want this change, but this is indeed classic as I remember it distinctly being harder to PL due to an exp cap, just couldnt find any evidence until now.

[Furniture]

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/alt.games.everquest/exp$20cap/alt.games.everquest/yE7Bl9k91zI/m9N5Q__WctAJ


"You cannot recieve more than 11% of your level in a single
reward. At lvl 1 you only need 900~1600 exp to level (dep on class/race)
so you are effectivly limited to 90-160 exp per kill,"

[Lazortag]

I remember such a cap existing also. On p99 you can ding from level 1 to level 6 in just one kill. There's no way that could be working as intended.

[nilbog]

Nice


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[kanras]

Pending update, you can gain no more than 11% of your current level from a single kill.

Pending update, you can gain no more than 11% of your current level from a single quest turnin. If you can find evidence to the contrary, this part of the change can easily be reversed.

[Mehrk]

I know after doing the Brother Qwinn/Zephyl MQ's for my monk on live I went 1-6ish for two turn ins, but that was during Velious so not sure if it would apply.. not like quest caps would really change anything anyway though, aside from how authentic p99 is.

[Buellen]

Hello karana

I remember doing the turmpy tonic quest to the dwarf guy in west Freeport at docks bar when it was very popular because of the massive experience it gave. From memory to me this quest did not fall in the 11 percent per turn that you are stating.

Since this quest has been long since nerfed I cannot obviousl give proof.


side information: during hot zones implementation you could level a low level toon in said hot toon almost 2 levels of one kill.

[Vega]

Yeah, I don't have any proof, but seem to remember people that did epics early were definitely getting more than 11% on things like final turn in. Is this a good idea Kanras? There's definitely evidence to the per kill cap, but I haven't seen anything for the per quest cap. Putting it in because it makes logical sense then makes it tougher to remove later since the burden of proof is now on finding evidence it DIDN'T exist.

[Buellen]

so just to give more data i went over to my eqmac account created a new character. ran him from surefall to qeyno taking along mail and favor quest items. got to qeynos picked up crate quest had 2 yellow from decayed skeletons i killed on the run. ran to south qeynos and turned in mail almost 2 yelllows of Expierence. when i dinged 2 from other quest turned in crate arrows note to LT dagnrok <sp>. got 4 and a half blue bar of xp.

this is very small sample but shows that these quests at least eqmac are not capped at 11 percent of level return heck the mail turn in was almost 40 percent of level 1.

the note for crate to lt dagrok <sp> was roughly 18percent of level 2.

[Ele]

Originally Posted by Vega [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There's definitely evidence to the per kill cap, but I haven't seen anything for the per quest cap. Putting it in because it makes logical sense then makes it tougher to remove later since the burden of proof is now on finding evidence it DIDN'T exist.

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