Scaling XP and mob spawns to HGLL

[darkophagus]

Hi, I have a PW that uses HGLL and ShayansSSE3.0 (starrynightbuild) among other things and love the progression beyond level 40. There are just two things that I find bothersome and am hoping to find a solution to them here.

1: XP gain does not scale through the Legendary Levels thus a toon gets the same xp for a given cr mob no matter whether they are level 40 or level 60.

2: inability to progressively scale encounters past cr 40.(a bioware thing not hgll)

So.... it occurred to me that perhaps there might be a way to fix this.
ECL comes to mind as I already use it for xp with subraces.
I am thinking that if +1 ECL can be added with each Legendary Level that can solve the xp gain issue and provide a means to solve the second issue. The next logical step then is to use a custom encounter spawning system and add a hook
into it to read toon level + ECL for purpose of determining the cr of the mob to spawn in.
I have been digging around in the SSE scripts trying to figure out how the ECL is applied and stored but am rather lost there.
I'm not sure how to script a function to add ECL with each Legendary Level however either and thus my questions are.

1: Is it possible to add ECL via script that increases the ECL with each Legendary Level taken?
1a: If so, what is the best way to go about doing it?

Also while I am here I am wondering a few other things.

2: Is there a setting for HGLL that would allow me to send my players back to the module start point after taking a Legendary Level?
2a: If so, where do I find it?
2b: If not, how could this be achieved?

3: Is it possible to freeze XP gain when the amount of xp needed for a Legendary Level is reached and only resume once the level is taken?
3a: If so, what is the best method for doing so?

These last two have to do with the fact that the trainer is at the end of a rather nasty gauntlet run and I want the players to have to run it for each level taken and that I use a custom ilr system and don't want items being used by a level 40 simply because they have the xp to be level 50 without taking the levels.

If any other info is needed to aid in answering my questions, ask and I will try to provide the answer as best I can. Thanx in advance

[darkophagus]

Mar 4, 2010 19:17:18 GMT darkophagus said:

2: Is there a setting for HGLL that would allow me to send my players back to the module start point after taking a Legendary Level?
2a: If so, where do I find it?
2b: If not, how could this be achieved?

Ok I think I figured this one out... haven't actually tested it though.
what I am thinking is to set a local int on the in the hgll_dlg_leveler script just before line 694 and set it to 1 then do a check on client enter for that int and if it's there do a jump to location and then set the int to 0 [edit: found it easier to DeleteLocalInt on enter and works nicely].

As for the other stuff I'm still searching and checking back here frequently

[FunkySwerve]

All of what you want to do can be done, but not without substantial amounts of work. You can use the script function that checks Lootable (called CheckLegendaryLevel, in hgll_func_inc) in the hgll includes to find out what level they are. From there you can do whatever you like to their xp by ediiting your xp system. Here's our experience include, which has the function used to calc xp reward:
dl.dropbox.com/u/3116407/hg_xp_inc.nss


For encounters, you either have to give up on scaling and go one monster per trigger, or write a custom spawn system.

As far as freezing xp goes, we used to do that, but thought it better to simply reward xp as if they were at the level warranted by their xp (which prevents exploits, as well). The functions you need to do that are in the experience include, but I'll show you one of our death scripts as well, to show you how we integrated it. It'd be relatively simple to just not reward xp if their current xp was a level or more above their current level. Here's the death script:
dl.dropbox.com/u/3116407/nw_c2_default7.nss

Hope that helps,
Funky



Hope that helps,
Funky

[darkophagus]

Thanks for the response and the script post Funky looks like the how of what I need is in them.
Yes my intention is to use a custom spawning script on a trigger but likely for just the LL spawns as I dont know I want to convert some 400 areas over that are already set up and working fine with the stock triggers lol.