Publish 22: Update regarding fixes not working as intended

[toront]

Thye make it nearly impossible to play without a group. But... in order to advance in a time frame that is reasonable to the average player you know have to solo.

Jabe

Could somebody explain what the patch actually DID to XP??

Publish 22 Experience Changes


Experience is now divided among group members, rather than every group member receiving full credit for the kill.

A larger group experience bonus was implemented, to ensure that grouping is still optimal: although experience earned per kill is less, a group of players is still able to earn experience over time at a much faster rate than a solo player.

For example:

If you solo a creature then you get 6000 experience.
If I solo a creature then I get 6000 experience.
If we group and kill two creatures together, then we get 3000 experience per creature each (6000xp total), plus an additional bonus amount of experience because we are grouped (and two of us together can kill those two creatures more quickly than we could have solo'd one each).

The display of experience was altered in order to minimize the notification of individual experience grants, and emphasize the notification of group experience bonus percentages. Since individual experience grants on a per-kill basis decline as group size increases, but the group bonus percentage increases as your group-size increases, we want to place the emphasis on the increasing bonus for grouping rather than on the decreasing individual experience awards.

We hope that this clears up any confusion with the experience changes.

[Isleh]

And the link to Tiggs post is:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/boar ... d=671#M671

[Sai'nu]

Well, just an update... They've got 3,000 posting (not including deleted) very unhappy customers over this thing. WtF SOE!?!! Your not suppose to try and kill a cash cow!

[Revis Xizi]

I don't even think that the Combat Upgrade went as bad as this publish did...this xp nerf is joke!

[Hashum]

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/boar ... d=672#M672

The voice of the people has been heard and they're returning XP to pre-publish 22 tonight.

[Sai'nu]

I'm hopping on Test Center as I type this to check it out.

[Sai'nu]

Just an Update: Everything looks A-ok on Test Center. Xp 'is' rolled back and all onscreen messaging is working properly... however you no longer get the text in your chat window... xp spam. *sigh* But it 'is' fixed and looks to be working just as it was before in groups.

[Jabe Adaks]

Well, I have to say I am surprised. I figured on being stuck.

I do expect progression nerfing to come back next publish and in a different form. Just not sure what its going to be.

Jabe