PK points system

[EsterKnight]

So does it go into the negitives?

[Entropy]

Of course it does. Otherwise you could get unlimited points off someone.

[Mango]

Was wondering, why spell-based kills, are not taken into the PK-points system.

 

Harm is imo the way to kill people.

[Usl]

new_winner_score = old_winner_score + alpha * log(abs(old_winner_score-old_loser_score));

new_loser_score = old_loser_score - alpha * log(abs(old_winner_score-old_loser_score));

I don't think this is quite what you intended -- a "score=100" character gets the same points for killing a "score=0" as for killing a "score=200". He'd also get '-Infinity' points for killing another "score=100"...

Ops, you are right! I had in mind a shifted symmetric logarithmic curve, but then wrote the equation for just one case. (Picture it as a log, shifted back to remove -inf for positive x, and -log, shifted towards left for the same reason, for negative x).

 

But then the formula would not be that simple anymore, and in any case the choice is already done, so the point is moot. Thanks for spotting the errors!