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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: Xoleron on July 20, 2007, 05:08:48 pm

Title: I'm getting free experience! Why?
Post by: Xoleron on July 20, 2007, 05:08:48 pm
 I was at the ojaveda gold mine luring about some ulbernauts- i went back to oja, and just when i was entering the canyon, i got 750 experience and 4 pp's.  I thought that was wierd, but i thought maybe the ulb walked off the cliff and i got the xp from its kill or somethin... BUT later (5 min) i was selling my gold at trasok's and all of a sudden i gained 8000 experience (40PP's) i was shocked- and submitted a petition which was promptly answered, but i am wondering if anyone here can give me an explanation or a way to keep it from happening. Thx
Title: Re: I'm getting free experience! Why?
Post by: Karyuu on July 20, 2007, 06:45:36 pm
This sounds like lag - if you were fighting Ulbers previously, the server might have only caught up to your actions long minutes later.
Title: Re: I'm getting free experience! Why?
Post by: Lanarel on July 20, 2007, 10:59:49 pm
It is not lag. For some reason, when an NPC that gets stuck (or fell down a hill) disappears, the player targeting it last gets rewarded, even if that player was no longer attacking that NPC. I am sure there is a bug report about it in the bug tracker :)
Title: Re: I'm getting free experience! Why?
Post by: Xoleron on July 21, 2007, 02:59:48 am
i have never killed an ulbernaut before- but do they give 8000 experience? i find that hard to believe...
Title: Re: I'm getting free experience! Why?
Post by: Lanarel on July 21, 2007, 12:02:00 pm
The strong ones seem to give that much. The less strong ones (which I can just kill) give 4000 exp I think. Much, much , much weaker trepors sometimes give 2200. Just to give an idea.
Title: Re: I'm getting free experience! Why?
Post by: Xoleron on July 21, 2007, 11:40:40 pm
that still does not make sense to me- assuming (in my case) ulbernauts give 40 PP's/kill would only explain one of the two experience gains.  Remeber i said i got about 700 experience soon after leaving the ulbernaut field, but then latel i got the 40 PP's.  I am POSITIVE that there was only ONE ulbernaut following me, so only instance of point gain should have occurred.  Tefusang? No they are not viable in this instance, for once again, i am POSITIVE that no tefusangs followed me from the gold mine down over the cliff.  What could explain BOTH experience gains?
Title: Re: I'm getting free experience! Why?
Post by: Lanarel on July 22, 2007, 12:33:35 pm
The short answer: "It's a bug". THe longer answer is not known yet :). Strange things happen when you attack an NPC and then leave. THe 750 might be from a tefusang you met an hour ago, but which was now killed by someone else. Who knows :)
Title: Re: I'm getting free experience! Why?
Post by: Unnamed_Source on July 26, 2007, 05:26:45 am
The Ulber fell off the cliff, the fall partially broken from landing on a tefusang, killing the tefu on the spot... 700xp. The Ulber later died of internal bleeding and blood poisoning... 8000xp.
Title: Re: I'm getting free experience! Why?
Post by: Nicana on July 30, 2007, 10:25:54 pm
lol @ Unnamed Source's explanation

Xoleron, if you were headed toward Oja, you probably also stepped through the Bandit's zone (and he probably started following you) ... he's worth 4 PP

As to why you got the PP?  -shrug-