ORPG Idea: Gold Exp rewards

[Peacehagen]

So, as some may know I am working on an ORPG and I want it to be playable in both single and multiplayer.

However to counter the fact that pretty much everyone will level up in single player I was thinking that based on amount of players in the game the XP and Gold rewards from Quests and XP from killing creeps goes up.

So for example:

Killing Creeps XP rate:
1 player: 20%
2 players: 60%
3 players: 100%
4 players: 110%
5 players: 120%
6 players: 130%
7 players: 140%
8 players: 150%

Quest XP reward:
1 player: 100 XP
2 players: 200 XP
3 players: 300 XP
4 players: 350 XP
5 players: 400 XP
6 players: 450 XP
7 players: 500 XP
8 players: 550 XP

Quest Gold reward:
1 player: 10 gold
2 players: 20 gold
3 players: 30 gold
4 players: 35 gold
5 players: 40 gold
6 players: 45 gold
7 players: 50 gold
8 players: 55 gold

Or something like that. So what do you think? This will probably cause players to want to find a game for much faster leveling, but if no game is found you can still level a bit on your own.

There is also the fact that there are Dugneons with great rewards and other stuff which requires more than 1 player while leveling to count into the value of playing in multiplayer

 

[Hexcellion]

The idea's not so bad, but why make it higher for more people? If you do it like that, it will turn into this: Get 8 playmates, farm until max level. The values should be equal, or just subtract the normal exp you get from less players.

So it'll be like this:

8 players = normal exp, gold
7 players = 1/8 subtracted from exp, gold
6 players = 1/7 subtracted from exp, gold
5 players = 1/6 subtracted from exp, gold
4 players = 1/5 subtracted from exp, gold
3 players = 1/4 subtracted from exp, gold
2 players = 1/3 subtracted from exp, gold
1 player = 1/2 subtracted from exp, gold

 

[Peacehagen]

Its because I want people to play in multiplayer if they get less xp/gold when they are more players it will be more likely that most will level up in a single player game, which is something I dont want to. I want single player to be the only way out if a multiplayer game is not available

Edit: Ops sorry saw wrong there yeah that is a good way to calculate it aswell

 

[Hexcellion]

I know what you want to do, that's why I suggested new rates. Here are the rates I gave you which are now in percentage.

8 Players: 100%
7 Players: 87.5%
6 Players: 85.72%
5 Players: 83.34%
4 Players: 80%
3 Players: 75%
2 Players: 66.67%
1 Player: 50%

 

[Peacehagen]

Yeah, that will probably work better thanks

 

[Hexcellion]

Np. And btw, you are doing this for RotC right? If so, then I'm happy to have helped you.

 

[Peacehagen]

Yes its for RotC Will test if 50% xp is low enough to make multiplayer more appealing, but its in a very early Alpha stage so no hurry hehe

 

[Hexcellion]

Make the creeps strong so that the one soloing will have a hard time. Make it fit half of the max players, and people won't even try to solo your game.

 

[Peacehagen]

Yeah, but then I might aswell make so you cant save your Hero in Single Player. I wan't people to be able to play in Single Player, but won't be able to play Dungeons and some of the more rewarding content.

But I dont want everyone to level up their Heroes in Single Player and only play Multiplayer with max level Heroes, so thats why I want leveling to be much slower when in Single Player, and perhaps 50% less xp wont be low enough, but will try

 

[Hexcellion]

Any less than 50% would make it sucky if it were soloable. Just make it not playable in single player, if your team is gonna be a team game RPG. If it will be something like TEvE, or Daemonic Sword, soloable, then make it possible for single player.

If the game is team game = not playable in single player
If the game is not a team game = could be played in single player

^ = Simplified post.

 

[Marsal]

Check out my map. It has a decent system exactly like what you want. Maybe itś inverse but as I remember it gives 125-(number of players * 5)% exp.

Giving more exp the more player is playing is a very bad idea. Like said before, with max number of players they will level up too fast for an ORPG and that will ruin the gameplay experience.

 

[Hexcellion]

Check out my map. It has a decent system exactly like what you want. Maybe itś inverse but as I remember it gives 125-(number of players * 5)% exp.

Giving more exp the more player is playing is a very bad idea. Like said before, with max number of players they will level up too fast for an ORPG and that will ruin the gameplay experience.

Unless the difficulty of the game increases as the number of players increases. Like the creeps being _x stronger. That would make the game easy to solo, but hard to level, but hard to play with friends, but easy leveling.

 

[Marsal]

But if the more players are in the game the stronger the creeps gets then why is it needed to change the exp rate? The stronger creeps already slows down the leveling.

 

[Peacehagen]

Hehe, this is a big issue but it is hard to get a full game and that is what I'm after. But if a full game gives a normal leveling speed and lower number of players reduces that perhaps it would work. Or it would just ruin everything because leveling would take too long when not a full game. Maybe it is just better to scrap that xp/gold idea?