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Old 10-07-2008, 11:12 PM
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Sort of, but I think you are making it more complex than it is.

When you set OOC regen, it is in increments of 1% per tick. So, you could set your OOCRegen to a minimum of 1% per tick, which would mean to go from 0 to 100% at any level would take exactly (100 / 1 * 6 = 600 seconds) 10 minutes. If you have OOC Regen set to 2%, then it would take (100 / 2 * 6 = 300 seconds) 5 minutes and so on. It is regening a % of your total hps no matter what gear or buffs you have on.

The scaling works by subtracting a percentage from the OOC regen. Depending on the rule setting and the level of the character and the max level set for the server, your regen could scale in a wide variety of ways. It checks your level against the max level setting for the server, so if you are level 1 and the server goes to level 50, you are 2% of the max level. If you were level 25 on the same server, you would be 50% of the max level. And, if you were level 50, you would be 100% of max level.

Now that it has your percentage, it can then multiply that number with the scaling rule. So, if your scaling rule is set to 50, then it will multiply your level percentage (explained above) with 0.50 (scale rule setting / 100). Using the level 50 max level explained above, and having a level 1 character, the math for this rule would look like this:

0.02 * 0.50 = 0.01

So, it then multiplies the OOCRegen by 0.01 and subtracts that total from your current OOCRegen per tick. So, it would only subtract a very small amount.

But, if you were level 50 in this same scenario, the math would look like this:

1 * 0.50 = 0.50

And when it multiplies that with your OOCRegen and subtracts it, you end up regening half as fast as you were at level 1. So, a level 1 might take 5 minutes to regen from 0 to 100, but a level 50 would take 10 minutes to regen from 0 to 100.

If your scaling rule is set to 100, then you will regen at almost the full OOC regen at level 1, but it will scale down so that by the time you get to max level, you will not regen any extra at all from OOCRegen.

I did make a slight mistake in what I said in that line you quoted though, it should have been this:

"Most extreme scaling to where max level gives no OOC regen bonus at all"

Ok, so maybe I just made it even more complex than you made it lol. But at least this is accurate. And the system should work perfectly and be easy to understand if you try it out a little once it is finalized.
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