Planetside XP hit with the nerf stick?

[VexedMightily]

Has anyone been keeping up with the official forums for Planetside. It appears numerous people are not happy as XP has been quite significantly toned down.

Base capping XP is the same if not higher, but individual kill XP is a lot lower. The typical Sony levelling treadmill is being mentioned (it being a shame as this is more an FPS).

However, the thing that annoys me more than anything, and is possibly going to cause cancellation of my preorder, is the following:

"For the record, the experience gains while in a squad are shared evenly among squad members, but with a 20% bonus added onto them. "

Personally I prefer the support style roles, and I liked the fact I could make a real difference to a squad without leeching off them. This is not the case anymore, a squad must take an XP hit to have a non-combatant support character on their squad. A lot of people are saying their support characters are no longer welcome in squads, which I can to an extent understand, they are going to try and make do without them for better XP.

What do people here feel about this?


Edit: For those that didn't know, originally everyone got the same XP as the member that earnt it, there was no sharing, just extra given out.

[Catachan]

As it is now, you'll get to BR10 in about 2 days play. I'd say that's fine for getting all the weapons you need for your main role.

After that, it's just a bonus really. I didn't come to PlanetSide to level up, I like the large fights that happen. To be honest, I couldn't give a **** about the experience.

[VexedMightily]

I do (in part) agree with you on that, although for my overall choice of character I need slightly higher than that. Still, that doesn't help my poor support character who is no longer welcome in some squads.

[Say_Ten]

Yes, I developed a Advanced Mecical and Engineering support character in the beta. If I'm not going to be able to play in squads simply 'cause I'm not a complete offense char that's gonna ruin the game in the end.

[wardivich]

personly, i think it would be better without the xp split, but it not even a minor problem. i'm never gona pretend that it's gona spoil the whole game.

in my experiance, the thing thats most likely to spoil an on-line game is, some of the peaple who play it (cheats, powerlevelers, etc.) basicly, peaple who enjoy wining more than thay enjoy playing.

i think that there will still be a place for the suporting role but it's only gona be in a squad that is intelagent enuf to know that it's best to have them.

hopfully there will be enuf likeminded peaple playing for it not to be a problem.

the way i see it... PS is a team game, which is why a low to mid rank charictor has enuff points to specalise in something and the high ranks can do anything thay want (rambo types).

i do think that i'd prefer to have more spechalists than rambos about when i'm playing a game like this

[Kosmo]

I agree with the xp nerf but I strongly disagree how its done.
Yes, current system looks down on support characters (and to some point squad leaders as well) and that is just plain wrong. Some good ideas about how it could be fixed are posted en masse in the official boards and I honestly think the xp will be looked at again in near future. Keep your fingers crossed.

[Culture]

OOOOOOoooo something i can comment on... :)

If people are blind enough not to need support chars then they will not gain the xp to divide amongst them in the first place!

You may well go in with anti tank and anti inf max's and then get torn assunder from the air because you didn't have a "support" anti air max....

Or have no-one to heal your battle damaged galaxy because you are all assault, in which case your xp gain will be small cause you will spend all your time walking :)

TBH do you want to play in a squad that wont let people join cause "there not going to bring us enough xp".....

[Killy]

it only annoys me when i get under 10 exp :p:
i like playing in squads, no matter who's in them i do however get pissed off when my max has low armour and no bugger can repair me :mad: oh well i guess i'll just have to go stealth and knife the exp outta them :)