<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest_Jono_* @ Sep 6 2007, 12:13 AM) [snapback]309182[/snapback]</div>
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anyone know the formula for figuring out how much money you will need to reach a certain experience? Trying to get an idea for how much money i would need to save from the start if my goal is say 200 for a party of 2.[/b]
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kmonster's formula is correct, but not necessarily what you're looking for in practice.
To a close degree of approximation, if your entire party is currently level
Y and wish to train your entire party up to level
X, the amount of gold you will need is:
20*
X^3 - 20*
Y^3
So to train from level 1 to 100 (X=100, Y=1) takes about 20*(100)^3 - 20= 20 million gold!
The exact formula happens to be 10*(2X+1)(X+1)X - 10*(2Y+1)(Y+1)Y
When I want to get to really high levels, here's how I do it (quoting myself from earlier in this thread). This is the fastest real time way I could find, although it takes a lot of game time:
Interest rates on Xeen are very good. You'll inevitably run out of money for training in the late game- if you kill Barkman, though, that should give you enough gold to train to at least level 50, which can get you through Darkside (particularly the Great Pyramid where there's a huge treasure pile) and then the Dragon Tower where there's a lot more treasure. Then (probably before you go to the Dragon Clouds) just put all of this gold in the bank and go work (Castleview/Rivercity/Vertigo, I think) for the next 25 (or so) years. 25 years multiplies your money by about a factor of 15, and 50 million gold (which you won't have any trouble accumulating with this strategy) is easily enough to train all of your characters to level 120. Aging penalties start around age 35, but don't kick in a second time until about 50, so you'll only have a few stats go down with this strategy.
This sure beats endless trips to the Gemstone Mines, or enchanting and selling items all day! It was particularly amusing that I had so much gold left over that I could pay the 4 million gold in the Southern Sphinx to be protected from the traps and then walk right through them.
If you don't use this trick, the game doesn't take much game time at all to complete (so you can afford to spend a lot of years working to accumulate gold since you really won't age much besides when you use this trick). I think the primary reason people take a lot of game time is that they don't realize that going to shops takes a day and/or they rest when they could just visit fountains (Vertigo/Rivercity being the easiest) to restore sp/hp. If you're judicious about not going to shops often or resting, the game is very quick.
Also, aging penalties at 35 are very mild- something like -2 physical ability scores, +1 mental ability scores. Then you don't suffer any more aging penalties until around age 50. I'd trade -2 physical ability scores for +40 levels of training any day.