I did the math... And the situation is BAD. I'll save you the annoying calculations and explain.
With the current experience system, a C-rank party from grinding the 30th layer before reaching lvl 100 within a year. And this isn't about going to the dungeon daily but every WEEK. This problem is big enough that I can't fix it without tearing the entire novel from the foundation.
In my setting, a B-grade adventurer can be lvl 93. Get the problem? Yes, overleveling exists, but it doesn't stop the root problem. I suspect that overleveling was the cause of my oversight...
Anyway, the system and world-building just got broken from a logical point of view.
I painfully decide to SCRAP this work... Like my numerous other works. (I am fucking depressed right now)
Yep, it HURTS... Mostly to me.
In any case, if I ever make a litrpg novel again...(Chances are that I WOULD NOT), I would likely do the 10*2^(level-1) formula, and monsters give 2^(level-1) exp... Or something stupid along those lines. Not that most of you care about that.
In any case, doing cheat novels was hard enough as is. It was even harder to go about writing a damn Pokepedia about monsters. I mean, FUCK CALCULATIONS. I should have avoided RPG elements LIKE FIRE. They SUCK. The only merit in levels is that they help you visualize your power level better... Which is redundant and largely inaccurate fluff.
Even worse, do you know how hard it is to write a proper tentacle monster novel? Disgustingly difficult. It was fun, but it became tedious and overloaded my brain with too many foreign details, Monster Girls was also a novel but bad idea... Well, at least I put some smut, so it wasn't a total loss.
Speaking of which, I found all the racial grading, talents, cheats, and whatever else a hassle, and I self-trapped myself in a training arc again. (Though, admittedly, it was much better than last time.)
In any case, yeah, I think scrapping this work is a step forward. In the next novel, I can give the MC a cheat, sure, but he would be like in the Reality Smuggler, an independent man. I plan on rewriting it one last time... Without the system and all that nonsense. Trod would not exist anymore, either.
For starters, the MC... Will not be someone from our world! Rejoice! He will be a veteran adventurer who, after miraculously killing the final boss, drags his dying body to the fragment and dies on it... Making him reincarnate with a new identity. (A bit cliche, but meh)
He would then find that the fragment augments his 'talent' and 'body' as he absorbs the life and souls of others, or what you would call 'ability steal'. Along with it, he could gradually unlock powers from the fragment, which would eventually include Reality Traveling. (Hence the name).
Of course, along with power comes a price... The MC would gradually, and inevitably, find himself... Changing... (More lustful and aggressive, for instance.)
In any case, I will inform you when I am done...
Anyway, thanks for reading thus far.
Cheers!
Simple solution - remove the actual written into the story calculations and XP numbers - I find that level of detail superfluous at best and distracting when not done well. The characters can be whatever level you decide they are that is suitable for that plot arc. Stop stressing over the math, this is a story not school homework.
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It’s like the economy of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear: write the MC’s personally disregarding the numbers. I wish I was still reading that book.
Have you ever thought that maybe what makes a story is the characters not the numbers? Who cares about the XP rates and the likes? There is a reason most litrpgs don't bother with them. Level when you want the party to and have numbers for convenience.
Just look at some of the most successful stories on this very site, both smut and non smut.
If it is important to you to have those things just keep numbers in the background you don't need to put them in the novel. I doubt many people keep track of them like you do anyway. I for one skipped them after the first time yet still saw this coming at a glance with the numbers you started at yet again.
Oh well good luck with your next project I don't think I will follow it. Starting novels with the expectation of them being dropped 30 chapters in is not fun.
As I said in the last chapter of the previous novel,you were getting too caught up in this complicated calculations thing,The thing is, it's not pleasant to keep track of things that will inevitably be discarded,I had said that most rewrites are never completed,why authors get lost in trying to do something better and better and end up losing interest in the work
I don't think most litrpg writers even bother crunching numbers anyway. They just go numbers go up haha and people eat that sh*t up.
At this point it's just funny. You managed to step on the same rake twice.
Twice?
every story she writes ends up like this lol, you must be new
Please don't do this again. There's actually a fairly simple way to fix this. Simply say that, unlike Tenta's party of geniuses, normal people have a real chance of dying every time they go past level 10 in a dungeon.
If we say on average 1 out of 20 dungeon dives end in death, that would mean just 8 dives would kill 1/3 of adventurers. The natural result would be that most people would do just enough dives to be able to take decent paying quests, then switch to much safer but much less experience giving surface quests.
Only the stupid, desperate, and/or geniuses would keep diving over and over, and the stupid would just die, along with almost all of the desperate and some unlucky geniuses.
What do you know just like i said it isnt worth reading as this author never gets passed 40-60 chapters.
Damn not again. I haven't even read the rewrite yet because I was building up chapters.
To be honest, I was pretty sure you were going to drop it ever since you introduced the noble and Mika hooked up with his son. My reasoning is that you had a story plan with Mika and the other 4 adventures, and you scrapped it. Once you had them end up at the hags place, I didn’t know where you were planing for the story to go since either it was going to be 100 chapters of living with the hag or a time skip, the latter option becoming less viable the more characters you added since they needed introductions.
Btw, I’d love if you bring Tenta’s story back to life after you’ve sorted out how to get it going consistently.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Imma miss Tenta.
And we were just bout to see him and Sierra get it down.
Sigh, luckily you're a good author so I'll wait to see this new idea of yours