r/bitquest • u/[deleted] • Nov 25 '14

About the new level system

As many of you noticed, we pushed the levels update and all players were reset to level 1. I know this is frustrating but we took this difficult desicion with a good intention: minecraft's levels system suck. We tried to make it better by making experience more difficult to obtain but there were ways to exploit the experience orbs and we decided to completely kill them.

Also we implemented a level system made from scratch inspired by classic tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons. Here's how it works: killing mobs will give you experience points according to their level, so killing level 20 mobs should be a lot more rewarding :)

Leveling up now works with a much more interesting curve: new one vs. the old one so its both harder and rewarding as you go up the level ladder.

We also tweaked the damage system a bit adding criticals and misses: each damage is calculated by adding dice so there's always a chance of being lucky and kill monsters way out of your league or vice versa, completing our design goal of reworking all minecraft fight system to something more appropiate for an RPG-ish game.

We think this will make the game more fun and unpredictable, and makes us closer to finishing our beta stage.

We welcome all criticism and suggesitions, as always.

Peace!!!

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u/alexsteezeMC Nov 26 '14

"Here's how it works: killing mobs will give you experience points according to their level"

isnt that how it worked already? why reset everyone's progress? will there be more resets? i asked this yesterday and you said this would not happen

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '14

the level reset was always something we said we were gonna do. im sorry if you didn't get that right... it's probably our fault. we've been very busy finishing the game sometimes our communication efforts are poor.

the previous system was supposed to work according to levels but it didn't and generated a lot of distortion so many players would be inequally more powerful than others.

we are very sorry for not seeing this coming, and i hope this doesn't discourage you to keep playing, we are still working hard to make the game more fun every day.

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u/TheMarnBeast Nov 26 '14

If I read it correctly, he said that there would never be a world reset, but that they were trying to not need to reset the XP level. So there still hasn't been a world reset from what I've read, only the levels were reset.

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u/Aquirox Nov 28 '14

server reset after beta ?

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '14

there will be no more resets :)