====== Party Play ======

Characters in crossfire can form 'parties' which enables them to work towards common goals. Whilst in the same party, characters will share [[skills:experience]] for the skills being used. Cautioned should be exercised in decided when and with whom to form a party with. Experience shared will go into the specific [[:skills|skill]], otherwise it goes into [[characters:score|general experience/score]]. Furthermore a large difference in [[characters:level]] will impact the balance of [[skills:experience]] shared.

===== Party Experience Calculation =====

FIXME, this should be explained in common language.

This is defined as

void share_exp(object *op, sint64 exp, const char *skill, int flag) {
    int shares = 0, count = 0;
    player *pl;
    partylist *party;

    if (op->type != PLAYER || op->contr->party == NULL) {
        change_exp(op, exp, skill, 0);
        return;
    }

    party = op->contr->party;

    for (pl = first_player; pl != NULL; pl = pl->next) {
        if (party && pl->ob->contr->party == party && on_same_map(pl->ob, op)) {
            count++;
            shares += (pl->ob->level+4);
        }
    }
    if (count == 1 || shares > exp)
        change_exp(op, exp, skill, flag);
    else {
        sint64 share = exp/shares, given = 0, nexp;
        for (pl = first_player; pl != NULL; pl = pl->next) {
            if (party && pl->ob->contr->party == party && on_same_map(pl->ob, op)) {
                nexp = (pl->ob->level+4)*share;
                change_exp(pl->ob, nexp, skill, SK_EXP_TOTAL);
                given += nexp;
            }
        }
        exp -= given;
        /* give any remainder to the player */
        change_exp(op, exp, skill, flag);