How to adjust the experience a specific monster gives when killed?

[idbeholdME 436]

I don't want to adjust the XP globally, but only reduce/tweak it for some specific outliers, like for example the Elite red panthers near the entrance of the Blood Forest. The Elite ones give nearly 4 times as much experience as the regular ones, making them way too rewarding for the threat they pose. I would like to reduce it to the usual double, as most Elites have.

If anyone could show me how to do this with this specific creature, I'd be grateful. I think it's "panther_hellcat_elite" in creatures.txt? Couldn't find the spot in any of the script files where this could be adjusted.

[Flix 5,215]

XP per Kill can be given to a monster as a bonus.  Its bonus is 26.  In this case, these are the elite hellcat's set of bonuses:

mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 20, intensity = 315,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 21, intensity = 240,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 22, intensity = 605,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 24, intensity = 104,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 26, intensity = 1600,})  -- you'd want to reduce this value
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 256, intensity = 450,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 262, intensity = 300,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 398, intensity = 250,})

It can be considered a mistake in PFP on my part, as I originally assigned the XP values to be in line with D2F.

[idbeholdME 436]

On 9/20/2023 at 12:12 AM, Flix said:

XP per Kill can be given to a monster as a bonus.  Its bonus is 26.  In this case, these are the elite hellcat's set of bonuses:

mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 20, intensity = 315,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 21, intensity = 240,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 22, intensity = 605,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 24, intensity = 104,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 26, intensity = 1600,})  -- you'd want to reduce this value
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 256, intensity = 450,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 262, intensity = 300,})
mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 398, intensity = 250,})

It can be considered a mistake in PFP on my part, as I originally assigned the XP values to be in line with D2F.

Missed the response because of no quote 

Perfect answer, thanks.

EDIT:

Adding a list of creature IDs in PFP which seem to have been given a very high XP per kill bonus that does not seem present in the vanilla. All of these give highly abnormal XP rewards when killed, so I'd suggest removing the bonus or greatly lowering it.

2973 - Elite Red Panthers in Blood Forest

mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2973, {bonus = 26, intensity = 1600,})

 

1054 - Gargantura spiders in the Blood Forest

mgr.addCreatureBonus( 1054, {bonus = 26, intensity = 2000,})

 

2977 - Bog Demons

mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2977, {bonus = 26, intensity = 3000,})

 

2833 - Mutated Skeletons

mgr.addCreatureBonus( 2833, {bonus = 26, intensity = 500,})

 

There are what I can remember right now. Will update it later. IIRC, there are a couple more outliers like this.

Edited October 2, 2023 by idbeholdME