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Jim · 07-31-2002, 08:54 AM

I'm really confused

It's my second time through the game now (first time with a fighter using a greatsword, now with a dual wielding elf) and it appeared that my elf was entering helms hold at a lower level than the human fighter from my first game. So, I loaded up an old game at about the same spot that my current game was at, and there is a difference of almost 10000 XP!! That a huge amount in NWN's. My elf fighter is currently on about 24000 and my human fighter was on around 33000 at about the same spot. In my most recent game I've done all the quests that I had done in the first game plus a few others, (I think I did all the side quests too, except for the clock tower quests since you need to be a mage to do those) and most importantly I didnt use a henchman this time round to get roughly the 20% XP boost for every enemy you kill something, so I should have a substantially larger amount of XP with my elf, but nearly 10000 less is a massive difference. Neither game used any multiclassing so there's no XP penalty there, so what the hell has happened this time round? If I could ask you to please look at a saved game you have in or around helms hold, and if you could tell me the XP of your character that would be a great help, so I can maybe get to the bottom of this. The only other difference between the two games is that now im using v1.21 so theres a possibility that BIS have scaled down the XP.

Any ideas?

07-31-2002, 08:54 AM	#1
Jim Quintesson Join Date: May 1, 2001 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England Age: 45 Posts: 1,088	I'm really confused It's my second time through the game now (first time with a fighter using a greatsword, now with a dual wielding elf) and it appeared that my elf was entering helms hold at a lower level than the human fighter from my first game. So, I loaded up an old game at about the same spot that my current game was at, and there is a difference of almost 10000 XP!! That a huge amount in NWN's. My elf fighter is currently on about 24000 and my human fighter was on around 33000 at about the same spot. In my most recent game I've done all the quests that I had done in the first game plus a few others, (I think I did all the side quests too, except for the clock tower quests since you need to be a mage to do those) and most importantly I didnt use a henchman this time round to get roughly the 20% XP boost for every enemy you kill something, so I should have a substantially larger amount of XP with my elf, but nearly 10000 less is a massive difference. Neither game used any multiclassing so there's no XP penalty there, so what the hell has happened this time round? If I could ask you to please look at a saved game you have in or around helms hold, and if you could tell me the XP of your character that would be a great help, so I can maybe get to the bottom of this. The only other difference between the two games is that now im using v1.21 so theres a possibility that BIS have scaled down the XP. Any ideas?