Pre-CU: XP was split between group members depending on how much damage they did to the target. Payment was split between each group member present at the mission.

Example: Player 1 does 10% of the damage, Player 2 does 20% of the damage, Player 3 does 70% of the damage. If the target yeilds a total of 1000 xp, Player 1 receives 100 xp, Player 2 receives 200 xp, Player 3 receives 700 xp. If the payout of the mission is 10000 credits, each player receives 3333 credits.

Pros: Keeps payouts lower, slowing the amount of inflation in the game.

Cons: Discourages grouping and community relations. Spawned "Solo-grouping" (Oxymoron?), small exploit to maximize XP and credit payout.


CU: Each group member received the same XP, reguardless of how much damage they did to the target, plus a 1% bonus in XP for every player in the group. Each group member present at the mission received the same amount of credits.

Example: Player 1 does 10% of the damage, Player 2 does 20% of the damage, Player 3 does 70% of the damage. If the target yeilds a total of 1000 xp, each player receives 1030 xp. If the payout of the mission is 10000 credits, each player receives 10000 credits.

Pros: Encourages grouping and community relations. You would take anyone with a pulse into your group to get that +1% XP bonus.

Cons: High payouts to all group members, speeding up the amount of inflation in the game.


Possible "NEW" Combination: Each group member receives the same XP, reguardless of how much damage they do to the target, plus a 1% bonus in XP for every player in the group. Payment is split between each group member present at the mission.

Example: Player 1 does 10% of the damage, Player 2 does 20% of the damage, Player 3 does 70% of the damage. If the target yeilds a total of 1000 xp, each player receives 1030 xp. If the payout of the mission is 10000 credits, each player receives 3333 credits.

Pros: Encourages grouping and community relations. You will take anyone with a pulse into your group to get that +1% XP bonus.
Keeps payouts lower, slowing the amount of inflation in the game.

Cons: None that I can think of?

Howabout xp be awarded based on percent damage and then an additional 1 percent for number of group members? And of course an even credit split.

I'd prefer we just stick with Pre-Cu style though.

the new combination sounds interesting... I like it

as OOM9 says "Roger roger", new combo for xp sounds like a nice compromise, inflation was the only bad thing with pre-cu imo, you'd have lone individuals with huge bank accounts, so merchants had to raise their prices because these were the people that bought things and eventually it got so bad a good full suit of composite armor on my server went for about 10 mil credits. Keep credits low, and prices stay low for just about everything. It was also a dream to have a guild be self-sufficient so that credits would be negligible within the community...my old guild came close.

New system.

with the advance of xp, leveling is faster, which advances the rate to jedi. Splitting the cash reduces the build of inflation within the galaxy. the +1% increase encourages grouping and builds relations within the game, leading to a better playing experience and community overall. The concept of the new xp system sounds wonderful.

new system.

let's face it: pre-cu leveling doc and healing CM was a freakin' ****. I, personally, don't want to even THINK about tumble-grinding again.

Would love to see some sort of combination that encouraged people to work together. This will be a much smaller community. Perhaps smaller than a lot of people realize. Especially anyone that hasn't played an EMU before. My biggest fear about all of the EMU servers is that so many different people will try and create their own server and there will not be much of a population other than the 1 or 2 lucky groups that have lots of people they know before they even start the game to get people together and kill stuff like Krayts, Geo Caves, Nightsisters etc. This concerns me a lot as I am not bringing anyone in RL I know into the game and will be on my own until I find a good guild to join.

I certainly see where you are coming from. I see alot of small "minority" servers wanting to spring up. Allowing jedi from the start, 10x XP, Double Skill Points, etc. These will be very small and ran off some dudes computer in their basement. I only see 3-4 "Major" servers that will last and draw the large populations. Galaxies Reborn will certainly be 1 of them. The community here is very mature and although we may not agree on everything to "improve" the game, nothing will be changed unless the community overwhelmingly supports it.

I'm embarrassed to say that I voted for the CU option. I was never very fond of the solo grouping thing.

I think i like the new combined xp sistem but if it comes down to pre-cu or the other one i will definetly prefer pre-cu

Personally I would like XP to be slow so that I can savor the game.

Exactly!!

well we dont want it to be too slow. i took my time leveling when i played live since i was a casual player.. it took a very long time. but i liked it now i wasnt in a hurry, and i wont be when i play here. but artificially slowing leveling down would be a mistake i think.

I got my head bitten off for asking this question at the SWGEmu forums, I'm glad the audience is more mature here and capable of discussion.

I consider the pre-cu solo-grouping exploit a huge bug which ruined the game. Players could earn 80k credits in 5-10 minutes by solo grouping which just destroyed the economy and the community.

Also any system that allows someone to grind a Master Profession is, in my opinion, broken. I really like the hybrid suggestion although only deep testing would reveal if it was truly a good solution.

New option: Each player gets an even share of the XP, plus a bonus equal to the percentage of the damage they did, e.g. in your above example, each player would get 333 XP, player 1 would get a 33xp bonus, player 2 would get a 67xp bonus, and player 3 would get a 233xp bonus, since he did most of the damage. Payout would remain even, as the less damaging players are often the healers, etc. and just as important to the mission's success.