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Might and Magic VIII Scoring
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Scoring
Acknowledgement
I want to thanks Jerhn for his precious help about correcting and commenting this document. And also
Ribannah for her marvelous run trough Jadame with her amazing score and optimal schedule that she provides.
Introduction
Do not use this document if you are playing your first game of Might and Magic VIII. It requires a good deal
of knowledge about the plot, and the choices within the game. It also gives away a great number of spoilers.
Scoring - Overview
Do you want to get a high score? Well, it is possible; you can run up a good score if you know how to exploit
the game. This document gives tips on what to do and how to get a ‘killer’ high score. It is, however, hard work,
organize your party carefully, and schedule your route through Jadame on a very tight schedule.
The final score that appears on your Might And Magic VIII Certificate is based on the experience points
(XPs) of your main character and the elapsed time required to ‘finish’ the game main quests. Fame is a function
of the experience points of your main character. Simply, these are the formulas used to calculate your final
score:
Fame = ‘Your’ Experience / 250
Score = ‘Your’ Experience / # of days till the Crystal is destroyed
Or Score = (Fame x 250) / # of days till the Crystal is destroyed
In Might and Magic a week has 7 day and a month 4 weeks. A year in Jadame is 336 days. A new day begins at
9:00am. This last point is important when you have to make decisions at the end of the game
If you gain all the Fame possible for completing quests and killing monsters (without doing a region more than
once), the Fame will total about 12,000 points, and the Experience points will total about 3,000,000. Using this
base value, final scores for a good run of a year or less look like:
12 full months 8,928
6 full months 17,857
3 full months 35,715
1 full months 107,143
The primary strategy to getting a higher score is to finish the game faster.
Experience Point Awards
The XPs awarded are different for different activities in the game. Three major groups rule the XPs awarded:
Quests, Promotions and Killing.
Quests
When you complete a quest your current party receives experience points. This amount is fixed for each
character and for each quest. Each member of the group receives the same amount. The health condition of the
character makes no difference. Even postmortem a character gets his reward.
For example if the reward for a quest is 10,000 XPs, each member will receive 10,000 XPs. If the group has 1,
2 or 5 members the reward is still 10,000 XPs for each member present for the award. If you change party
members and go back later, there is no additional award given to them.
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