Do acticles about expererience system lies?

[ToldYouSo]

So, I decided to make my own trigger exp system, and I changed game constants, using https://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/cat_usersubmit.php?view=68382 acritcle as a base one to set exp values I need for hero to level up.

So I set Hero XP Required, Level factor as 130,
Hero XP Required, Previous value factor: as 0.35
Hero XP Required, Table: as 400
And guess what? When you level up into 2 level, it works just fine. But when you start leveling up further, experience needed only gets lower and lower! It makes no sence. I made a skill that only kills your allies, so there's no way blizzard function exp from killing might intervene, since killing allies wont bring any exp. I debugged killling too, so I could see unit has been getting the same exp on all levels via my scipt. And there's nothing I could see as a reason to system break. The only explanation I can get from here is that Gameplay Constants - Hero Experience acritcle this artical is wrong about exp system formula.
Pls help me.

 

[Chaosium]

Shouldn't the previous factor be 1.35? That 0 might be the culprit

 

[ToldYouSo]

Shouldn't the previous factor be 1.35? That 0 might be the culprit

1.0 is default
I already set it back at 1., and still get the "amazing" results.

 

[Nichilus]

The article is correct. All you had to do was fill in your values into the equation from the article and you would see that it works as expected.

Experience required = "Previous value" * "Previous value factor" + "Level" * "Level factor" + "Constant factor"

Your constants:

• Level factor: 130
• Previous value factor: 0.35
• Table: [ 400 ]
• Constant factor: 0

Level 1 to level 2:

• Required Exp = Value taken from table
• Required Exp = 400

Level 2 to level 3:

• Required Exp = prev_val * prev_val_factor + level * level_factor + constant_factor
• Required Exp = 400 * 0.35 + 3 * 130 + 0
• Required Exp = 140 + 390 + 0
• Required Exp = 530

Level 3 to level 4:

• Required Exp = prev_val * prev_val_factor + level * level_factor + constant_factor
• Required Exp = 530 * 0.35 + 4 * 130 + 0
• Required Exp = 185.5 + 520 + 0
• Required Exp = 705

 

[ToldYouSo]

The article is correct. All you had to do was fill in your values into the equation from the article and you would see that it works as expected.

Your constants:

• Level factor: 130
• Previous value factor: 0.35
• Table: [ 400 ]
• Constant factor: 0

Level 1 to level 2:

• Required Exp = Value taken from table
• Required Exp = 400

Level 2 to level 3:

• Required Exp = prev_val * prev_val_factor + level * level_factor + constant_factor
• Required Exp = 400 * 0.35 + 3 * 130 + 0
• Required Exp = 140 + 390 + 0
• Required Exp = 530

Level 3 to level 4:

• Required Exp = prev_val * prev_val_factor + level * level_factor + constant_factor
• Required Exp = 530 * 0.35 + 4 * 130 + 0
• Required Exp = 185.5 + 520 + 0
• Required Exp = 705

I set Hero XP Required, Table: as 200 back.
And guess what? It works right now.

IDK about default blizzard exp system, maybe it's up to work when you do not touch addheroexp(), but in cause you do - exp system gets broken as hell for sure.

 

[Nichilus]

I've used this trigger and had no issues:

• xp
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing <Empty String> as A substring
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Hero - Add (Integer((Entered chat string))) experience to Paladin 0001 <gen>, Show level-up graphics

The trigger action is AddHeroXPSwapped() which just calls AddHeroXP().
Also tried a jass version directly and in both cases I encountered no issues. I am on latest patch.

 

[ToldYouSo]

I've used this trigger and had no issues:

• xp
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing <Empty String> as A substring
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Hero - Add (Integer((Entered chat string))) experience to Paladin 0001 <gen>, Show level-up graphics

The trigger action is AddHeroXPSwapped() which just calls AddHeroXP().
Also tried a jass version directly and in both cases I encountered no issues. I am on latest patch.

Have you changed game constants? BTW Im doing it on 1.26, since I want my map compatible with both 1.26 and reforged

 

[Nichilus]

Yes, I changed the constants to:

Your constants:

• Level factor: 130
• Previous value factor: 0.35
• Table: [ 400 ]
• Constant factor: 0

It may be that there was a bug in v1.26, hard to say at this point. Live version seems to work correctly.