Exploring ----------- The realm of Batmud is huge, and there is a great variety of areas and sites to see and explore. The number of rooms of the mud which you have explored, along with the total number, is displayed with the 'score' command. You will gain experience points when you visit new rooms. The actual amount of experience will go up exponentially when the number of the rooms you have visited grows. Exploring is a good method of character advancement, especially at the lower levels. There are special rooms that give a substantially larger amount of experience when you explore them (for the first and only time). You will be informed when you enter such a room. To prevent abusing a constraint has been placed that limits the maximum experience gained from these special rooms to the experience gained from visiting normal rooms. The possible additional experience, however, is not lost. The system keeps count of it and awards you extra the next time you visit a special room, assuming that your normal explore has gone up enough to allow for this. Special rooms are rather rare, and there are areas that do not contain a single one of them. These exact figures are not available for the eyes of the mortals, neither are the formulas. See the table at the end of this document for getting an idea about the experience you can expect to make from exploring. Note that certain areas (such as guild rooms or level-restricted areas, or the outerworld map) do not count in the total number of rooms, and thus you do not gain experience for entering them. See also: 'score'. The following table will give you an idea of rooms/experience ratio... ,--------------------------------------------. | Rooms visited | Experience gained | |--------------------------------------------| | 100 | 5000 | | 500 | 85000 | | 1000 | 300000 | | 2000 | 1000000 | | 4000 | 4000000 | | 6000 | 8000000 | | 8000 | 15000000 | | 10000 | 23000000 | '--------------------------------------------'

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