Not leveling trick

Dirty Meg · 12-06-2004, 11:09 PM

When you keep one member of your party at level one, so as not to get an experience reduction, does that party member need to be alive? Is the experience reduction based on the average level of your party members, or just of your living party members? Can you just drag a corpse behind you, like a character from a Sergio Leone film, and get the same effect? What's a cleric? Do you think I ask to many questions?

Dirty Meg · 12-07-2004, 01:11 AM

Reading my post, it seems like a bit of an insane rant, so I'm going to clarify what I meant:

It is possible to avoid getting a reduction in experience from weaker opponents by keeping one member of your party at a lower level than the rest. Will this still work if the low level character is dead?

Luvian · 12-07-2004, 01:31 AM

You will get more xp, but I'm not sure if he's dead.

I kept two level 1 with me, I just left them at entrances.

Aerich · 12-07-2004, 02:12 AM

They'd have to be kept alive, wouldn't they? If you could avoid XP reduction by carrying dead characters, I'd think we'd have heard about it from some smartypants going solo but carrying 5 dead lvl 1 characters along.

Dirty Meg · 12-09-2004, 05:30 PM

Are you certain, or is that an educated guess? Do you know for sure that is how it works?
I stupidly deleted my old games, so I can't experiment to find out. If someone could find or direct me to a table of experience gained relative to level of party/level of enemies I would be much appreciative.

Aerich · 12-10-2004, 01:28 AM

Nope, just a guess by me. I can't believe that if that tactic was exploitable we wouldn't have heard about it by now.

Dirty Meg · 12-10-2004, 01:49 AM

I discovered an infinite exp bug in the first IWD which I've never seen in any walkthrough, so its not impossible that we wouldn't have heard of it. Anyway, I think I once read somewhere that you could use dead lvl 1 characters to get more exp, so I started a game with 3 dead people. (well they didn't start out dead... *evil laugh*). I'm not sure if it's working because I don't know how much experience I'm supposed to get. Should a level 7 party get full exp for killing an orc?

Dirty Meg · 12-10-2004, 05:46 PM

Experimented by bringing one of my dead peeps back to life. They need to be alive.

Vassago · 12-13-2004, 01:49 PM

That would make sense. A fallen commerade doesn't earn any xp so your party level would be higher with a dead level 1 character.

12-06-2004, 11:09 PM	#1
Dirty Meg Baaz Draconian Join Date: May 21, 2004 Location: Here, or there abouts. Age: 79 Posts: 703	When you keep one member of your party at level one, so as not to get an experience reduction, does that party member need to be alive? Is the experience reduction based on the average level of your party members, or just of your living party members? Can you just drag a corpse behind you, like a character from a Sergio Leone film, and get the same effect? What's a cleric? Do you think I ask to many questions? __________________ A stitch in time is worth two in the bush.

12-07-2004, 01:11 AM	#2
Dirty Meg Baaz Draconian Join Date: May 21, 2004 Location: Here, or there abouts. Age: 79 Posts: 703	Reading my post, it seems like a bit of an insane rant, so I'm going to clarify what I meant: It is possible to avoid getting a reduction in experience from weaker opponents by keeping one member of your party at a lower level than the rest. Will this still work if the low level character is dead? __________________ A stitch in time is worth two in the bush.

12-07-2004, 01:31 AM	#3
Luvian Ironworks Moderator Join Date: June 27, 2001 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Age: 43 Posts: 6,763	You will get more xp, but I'm not sure if he's dead. I kept two level 1 with me, I just left them at entrances. __________________ Once upon a time in Canada...

12-07-2004, 02:12 AM	#4
Aerich Lord Ao Join Date: May 27, 2004 Location: Canada Age: 42 Posts: 2,061	They'd have to be kept alive, wouldn't they? If you could avoid XP reduction by carrying dead characters, I'd think we'd have heard about it from some smartypants going solo but carrying 5 dead lvl 1 characters along. __________________ Where there is a great deal of free speech, there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. - Winston S. Churchill

12-09-2004, 05:30 PM	#5
Dirty Meg Baaz Draconian Join Date: May 21, 2004 Location: Here, or there abouts. Age: 79 Posts: 703	Are you certain, or is that an educated guess? Do you know for sure that is how it works? I stupidly deleted my old games, so I can't experiment to find out. If someone could find or direct me to a table of experience gained relative to level of party/level of enemies I would be much appreciative. __________________ A stitch in time is worth two in the bush.

12-10-2004, 01:28 AM	#6
Aerich Lord Ao Join Date: May 27, 2004 Location: Canada Age: 42 Posts: 2,061	Nope, just a guess by me. I can't believe that if that tactic was exploitable we wouldn't have heard about it by now. __________________ Where there is a great deal of free speech, there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. - Winston S. Churchill

12-10-2004, 01:49 AM	#7
Dirty Meg Baaz Draconian Join Date: May 21, 2004 Location: Here, or there abouts. Age: 79 Posts: 703	I discovered an infinite exp bug in the first IWD which I've never seen in any walkthrough, so its not impossible that we wouldn't have heard of it. Anyway, I think I once read somewhere that you could use dead lvl 1 characters to get more exp, so I started a game with 3 dead people. (well they didn't start out dead... evil laugh). I'm not sure if it's working because I don't know how much experience I'm supposed to get. Should a level 7 party get full exp for killing an orc? __________________ A stitch in time is worth two in the bush.

12-10-2004, 05:46 PM	#8
Dirty Meg Baaz Draconian Join Date: May 21, 2004 Location: Here, or there abouts. Age: 79 Posts: 703	Experimented by bringing one of my dead peeps back to life. They need to be alive. __________________ A stitch in time is worth two in the bush.

12-13-2004, 01:49 PM	#9
Vassago Manshoon Join Date: August 21, 2002 Location: KY Age: 50 Posts: 188	That would make sense. A fallen commerade doesn't earn any xp so your party level would be higher with a dead level 1 character. __________________ [img]\"http://img25.exs.cx/img25/5295/Thief_image.jpg\" alt=\" - \" />

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