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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:44 am

Experience Points and How to Use Them

Experience points are gained by characters as they roleplay, participate in Lessons, and get involved with shop events. In order to keep things tidy (and to help yourselves out!), you should keep track of experience as your characters earn it in their journals. This way, you never forget how much experience each character has earned and never lose a link to a past experience-earning roleplay. As your characters amass experience points, they can spend these points to get special items only available through the EXP system or special events. Please note that when you buy an item from the EXP prize list, that item must go to the character who spent the experience points. It cannot go to another one of your characters.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction and ToC
2. Point Caps and Earning Experience
3. Alternative/Additional Uses for Experience Points
4. Prize List
5. Purchasing Prizes
6. Reserved

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:46 am

Experience Point Caps

Certain ranks come with restrictions on how many experience points you can have before you need to begin spending them. This prevents characters from ending up with unrealistic amounts of items or privileges for their rank or age.
These restrictions lessen as the characters grow and move up in the world, and should not impact your characters for long.

Candidates/Children - Candidates may earn up to 5 EXP before they are required to spend some of their experience in order to earn more. Candidates may NOT have more than 5 EXP at any given time, even if they have just completed a roleplay which would put them over 5 EXP.

Weyrlings/Teenage Holders/Apprentice Crafters - Being older and higher up in the world, Weyrlings may earn up to 10 EXP before they are required to spend some of their experience in order to earn more. Weyrlings may NOT have more than 10 EXP at any given time, even if they have just completed a roleplay which would put them over 10 EXP.

Adult riders/Adult Holders/Journeymen Crafters - Once you reach this stage, all EXP restrictions are off. You may earn and save up as much EXP as you would like in order to purchase the top-tier prizes from the Experience System. Go nuts!

Earning Experience

Experience can be earned in a number of ways at Serrat. Below you will find a complete list of the ways to gain experience.

Roleplays/Journals - For every five posts your character makes in a given roleplay, they will earn 0.25 EXP. This system is designed so that if you begin a roleplay but, for any of a number of various reasons, the roleplay is never completed, you will still earn some experience for the effort you put in during the roleplay. Completed, in-depth roleplays (meaning roleplays that have a definite and logical ending and reach at least two pages in length) earn an additional 0.5 EXP per person on top of the exp earned for however many posts you have made.

Lessons - Candidates, Weyrlings, and some Crafters will have lessons where they will learn useful skills for their professions. Each of these lessons, unless marked otherwise, will be worth 0.25 EXP a piece. This experience will be earned by making a predetermined number of posts (announced at the start of the lesson) during the course of the lesson. This means you may not have to stay active for the entire lesson, but it does require a significant presence there in order to claim you deserve the experience for being there.

Shop Events - Although metaplots will be somewhat rare here, the shop will occasionally hold roleplay events that affect in-world happening. The experience gains from these events will vary, but will be announced somewhere at the beginning of the event.

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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:47 am

Rider Rank System

Experience accrued from necessary roleplays is a big part of the Rank System at Serrat. When you complete a roleplay and use it to earn a rank, the experience from that roleplay is applied as part of the "cost" of that rank. This means that you cannot then use the experience from those same roleplays to purchase prizes from the EXP system. Likewise, if you "spend" the EXP earned from a roleplay on a prize from the EXP List, that roleplay can no longer be used as one of the qualifying roleplays for a rank. For more information about the available ranks and how to earn them, the Rank Guide can be found here.

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:48 am

Experience Prize List

IC Prizes
Prizes are arranged from lowest cost to highest cost.
Prizes must go to the character using their experience to purchase the prize.

Note: Any firelizards purchased through the EXP system will receive a description of their firelizard and a token, which can later be redeemed for firelizard art when it becomes available.

General Possessions/Pets
One piece of wooden beaded jewelry (may be painted) - 1 EXP
Semi-precious stone, uncut (Any variety, half-dollar sized or smaller) - 1 EXP
Random Green Flit - 1.5 EXP
One piece of metal jewelry, no adornments - 2 EXP
Leather-bound notebook - 2 EXP
Random Blue Flit - 2 EXP
Random Brown Flit - 4 EXP
Glass Wher Goggles - 4 EXP
One Gather Outfit - 4.5 EXP
Flit Message Harness - 4.5 EXP
Custom Dyed Riding Gear (Rider: Jacket, pants, gloves, boots) - 7 EXP
Custom Dyed Riding Straps (Dragon) - 7 EXP
Studded Wher Collar - 7 EXP
Random Bronze Flit - 9 EXP
Engagement Rings (Gold or silver band with diamond) - 15 EXP
Random Gold Flit - 20 EXP

Piercings/tattoos (Tribal stylized/simple patterns only)
Ear - 3 EXP
Nose - 5 EXP
Brow/Lip - 8 EXP
Small tattoo - 8 EXP
Large tattoo - 15 EXP

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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:50 am

Purchasing EXP List Prizes

In order to purchase something from the experience list, just copy and fill out the following form and then post it in this thread. When a form has been read and a staff member has completed the transaction (i.e. "given" you your prize), it will be crossed out, so you know it is completed. In the case of items, such as custom riding gear or jewelry, you can assume your character has them immediately. In the case of firelizards, you must wait to have your character get their flit until after a colorist has completed and delivered your new pet.

[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Character Name:[/b]
[b]Requested Prize:[/b]
[b]Cost of Prize:[/b]
[b]Links to Earned Experience:[/b] [url=][0.25 EXP][/url](This is [b]only[/b] the experience you are using to purchase your prize. Once these rps have been used, you cannot use them as experience again. If you are using partial points from one rp, please note how many of the points you are using from that rp in [b]bold.[/b])
[b]Points Remaining After Purchase:[/b] (This is how many total experience points your character has left to use in the future after you have "bought" the prize you are requesting.)

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:53 am

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