Splitting Party XP

On larger servers there is one problem with parties. Why party? Yes its safer, but you have to split the loot and XP. Also you have to take care of others. Thats why many server support parties by giving less penalty for partying.

Atm XP is equally split among party members.

There are several posibilities but one is to give still less but overall bigger (if you count party as whole) chunk of XP for party

2 Man party 80% per kill as if solo (totaling 160% monster XP)
3 Man party 70% per kill as if solo (totaling 210% monster XP)
4 man party 60% per kill as if solo (totaling 240% monster XP)
5 man party 50% per kill as if solo (totaling 250% monster XP)

You dont hamper individual while helping party as whole. There are many other systems this is the easiest one.

You know I wasn't even aware that the game's default XP system split XP like that. There is a system on the vault that gives more xp for more party member. I would like to encourage parting so I will look into implementing that.

It will most likely give bonuses up to 5 party members and then harsh xp penalties after that for more party members, since parties larger than 5 members tend to generate lots of lag.

P.S. I am in the process of working on my own xp system that will share xp by range. That way you will be able to share xp with others without even the need for a party. This will really help on keeping lag down. BTW how is the server lag was thus far? Its a powerful machine running server 2003 with a LOT of bandwidth so I'm hoping it will be low on lag. I will also be upgrading it to 6 gigs of ram possibly.. however that will require server 2008 x64.. which isn't necessary for this type of application otherwise and hogs a lot more ram in and of itself than 2003 does..

Oh any back to the point.. How is the lag? low med, high?

I havent noticed lag except for few crashes now and there. But we would need more users to test it properly .. never seen more than 5 people on at time.