New exp system explained

[Tease]

This comming straight from a post on the official PS boards from SmokeJumperPS, a dev...



The system is pretty much like it was in Beta, but with a few variables changed in the equation.
Basically, there's a 25-minute window that's tracked. That window ends upon a successful hack occurring. (10 minutes before the hack occurs and the 15-minute window while the hack is happening.)

This is divided up into time slices (5-second windows). We track how many of those slices you are in the SOI. We also track how many enemies were in the SOI during each of those slices.

Slices where enemies are present are worth more than slices where enemies are not present. Various amounts of enemies affect the slices more heavily.

When a hack is successful (the building changes ownership), then everyone that was in the "winning" side gets xp for their slices.

If in a squad, all the slices are averaged together. This allows all squad members to benefit, even if they weren't all there at the same time. It does encourage squads to "stick together" rather than splitting up to various bases in order to "cap squat" (sneaking in right before the cap occurred in order to reap the rewards), which is what was happening with the old system.

Before anyone gets upset because this "leaves the support folks in the cold", it pretty much doesn't. If they are in the SOI (and SOIs are generally bigger than you think), then they'll wrack up xp also. ANT drivers contribute xp to the squad when they refill silos, so that shores up their absence. Galaxy pilots either a) aren't in the squad, or b) usually land/bail and fight along with the squad. Other support folks tend to hang with their squads (engineers, medics, hackers) and actually contribute points accordingly.

Resecuring is just like capturing, but the max xp is a bit lower (3000 instead of 5000) because the time window is only 15-minutes instead of 25-minutes. But "saving" a base in the nick of time, with enemies swarming on the base can net you very good xp now.

I hope this helps you understand the system better.

If you group together and attack/defend bases, you'll get great xp now...but only if there are enemies present. Find the risk and the xp is there waiting for you.


And a second note from SmokeJumperPS...


You do not need a squad member in the SOI at the time of capture or hack in order to get the reward for the time slices you accumulated.
If the capture (or resecure) is successful, then you get the points for your time slices. Period.

[Candide]

And I still think this system sucks. It encourages people to sit around in an undefended base to get as many "slice hits" as possible. The tracking of kills like it was all but the last week of beta was so much more fun. That last week of beta absolutly SUCKED. You couldn't get more than 1500 xp for a cap because no one would bother defending a base or trying to break a hack. THey just went to the next spot.

There are better ways to fix the original system that didn't require this new stupid system. I still don't get what was so complicated about unique kills that people couldn't understand.

Man just when I start to consider getting the game I read this stupid shit again.

We would go and hack a base, the enemy would switch to another base. So the option was sit around to make sure you are in the SOI for each slice, even tho no enemy was there, so you get your xp for the cap, or forget about getting the cap and go after what makes the game fun, fighting the enemy. Oh, but they also cut the xp you get per kill by a factor of around 4 or 5. So now that wasn't nearly as worth it.

Yeah I know you guys are already in the low teens, dunno just don't like the whole way this was done.

[Zeris]

It's not amazing, but all the alternatives are worse imo