Majik Experience System
                               Version Draft 1

                   Copyright (c) 1998, Tommi "Namhas" Leino
                            namhas@majik.netti.fi

INTRODUCTION

  If we want to be playable environment and not only social-oriented
  we need to think some way to advance players' abilities when he/she
  becomes more _experienced_. Experience points are the best and
  most realistic choice for advancement system and the idea has been
  already approved after few months long war. Please, try to understand
  this experience system will not make Majik to be 100% hack'n'slash
  only environment. There might characters, such as trolls whose only
  kill everything in the sight and also, there will be characters who
  don't kill anything until it is really necessary. We try to avoid
  batmud-like exp-making as good as we can.

IMPLEMENTATION

  The experience points are divided to many different classes for
  different purposes. For now we will have at least the following
  experience types:

    1) qxp (quest experience points)

      By solving quests you get as much qxp as difficult the quest
      was. The suggested range for quest difficulty scale is 1-10
      so if the player solves difficulty 10 quest he/she receives
      10 qxp.

    2) exp (explore experience points)

      By exploring the world you get more percentage to the explore
      'skill'.

    3) kxp (kill experience points)

      This is the most 'flammable' experience type. By killing monsters
      the player get experience to the kxp which is divided to as many
      different subclasses as the player has killed different type
      of monsters. So the player kills a troll he/she receives experience
      to the troll subclass. Until there is enough experience points
      on troll subclass then the player can receive some bonuses when
      fighting against the trolls. The experience points is dependent
      on to the levels of the monster, so if the player kills ordinary
      troll he/she gets less experience and he/she kills master troll
      then the player receives more experience. Alignment is also
      on this; if you kill monster from same alignment you will not
      get experience, or only half of it.

    4) rxp (religious experience points)

      By sacrificing items to god, pleasing gods and so on the player
      can also make experience. The experience is divided to different
      subclasses as is in kxp too, depending on the god. 

    5) sxp (skill/spell experience points)

      Skills will receive experience to the 'practice' when using
      the skill. When enough experience is in skill's practice value
      then the learning die will improve. Training skills/spells in
      the guild should take reasonable amount of money and thus it
      would encourage players use the skills a lot before attempting to
      train. Also, there is chance to get more skill percentage
      without training.

    6) dxp (death experience points)

      By getting experience to this experience type is only possible
      if the player dies. This will serve as negative modifier in
      total experience and may affect some other things too, such
      as charisma.

    7) gxp (global experience / total experience)

      The experience from all experience types is calculated to
      this experience type. This will tell how experienced the
      character is totally. Periocally checking this experience
      type can allow character's abilities to improve until they
      reach the maximum. Also by this experience type it is possible
      to 'magically' rank players. By doing so it would give GREAT
      advantage to the PLAYABILITY but I am quite sure I will not
      receive much support for that idea. Of course, it would give
      only rank, not any numbers whatsoever...