XP Needed to level up.... What formula?

I'm creating a rpg game in Excel and it has a level system.

However, I don't know what formula to use. I must note that the XP you received, never falls back to 0, it keeps raising. Even when you gained a level.

I first did it like this:

• lvl 1 - 0
  lvl 2 - 30
  lvl 3 - 75
  lvl 4 - 188
  lvl 5 - 470

So every time the amount is multiplied by 2,5*. This is not a good formula though, because in the beginning you level up too fast, and later on it goes really slow. Too slow.

Does anyone have a better formula than this?

Awesome I've heard about games developed in an excel spreadsheet.

What about something like:

x * 1.2 + 50

which gives you:

1: 0
2: 50
3: 110
4: 182
5: 268
6: 372
7: 496
8: 646
9: 825

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aaron_da_killa said:
Awesome I've heard about games developed in an excel spreadsheet.

What about something like:

x * 1.2 + 50

which gives you:

1: 0
2: 50
3: 110
4: 182
5: 268
6: 372
7: 496
8: 646
9: 825

Hey that's getting close to it. Remember though that after advancing to level 2 you will still have 50 EXP, so you only need 60 XP to advance to the next level.

Perhaps I must use the formula x * 1.3 + 50. Or change the 3 with a 4.

Anyways thanks for helping me, I never thought of doing it this way

Edit: How can I set your post to "accepted answer" again?

Niborius said:
Edit: How can I set your post to "accepted answer" again?

This is General Banter, but Snarkpit currently doesn't have a Random Help tab, so I dont think you can make aaron's post an accepted answer in this tab.

I'm 100% sure there was such feature before

Never in the General Banter forum. It's only for threads in the editing forums.

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Yeah not in the general banter forum.

Also I always thought they reset the experience points in games after the player got to the next level.

But yeah if you want to not reset the player's experience points you'd have to play around with the formula a bit.

Or you could just modify the formula to this: x = x * 1.2 + 50 + x

The + x at the end would compensate for the player's experience not being reset after each level.

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Aaron's Stuff

Yes in most games your XP would be reset to 0 again, but my game is based on Gothic 2, and in that game the XP never resets either.

And no, I cannot use their formula since that game has way more monsters and side quests to earn XP at.

Also, that formula looks good!

I'm gonna have a better look at it later today. Thanks again

Edit:

Now it is going like:

• Level 1 - 0
  Level 2 - 50
  Level 3 - 160
  Level 4 - 402
  Level 5 - 934
  Level 6 - 2105
  Level 7 - 4681

Am I doing it right? It does look alright but I'd have to test the game first. I can show you the map or some monster stat cards later if u want.

Sorry, have to bump this because I have the idea no one noticed I edited my post

Edit: Never mind. The game is finished and I used Aaron's first formula. The XP goes back to 0 anyways.