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  • foxman00foxman00 Member Posts: 1,505 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Ok, i havent experienced this issue, i am getting the same xp from elite that i did before the patch
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  • icsairgunsicsairguns Member Posts: 1,504 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    ohh and i forgot to mention all the fighting we are supposed to do that gives no xp at all other than the 1k the patrol itself gives. those being any ship that is disabled not destroyed gives no xp. that includes the khazon leaders ship in argola. over a million hp to give no rewards what so ever.
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  • foxman00foxman00 Member Posts: 1,505 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I think you must be mistaken. Everyone that has ran any event this evening in our fleet, and so far that's about 20 of us have all reported the exact same thing as well as everyone else in this thread. What XP are you getting, for which ship?

    500 skill points (adjusted since i am lvl 60, i had to add the skill point and specialisation together) for a enemy mogai in the carrayna system i believe" this is the same as i got 3 days ago on elite in the same system.

    Please note, this is me doing it solo. Might be wrong but it is the same as a couple of days ago.

    "Shrugs" so i am nit sure what is going on there
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  • tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    icsairguns wrote: »
    i ran agarola or what ever its called 15 times after patch and 3 times just prior to patch to make notes of xp given.

    Normal mode is giving out slightly more khazon cruiser prior 234 after 290

    advanced mode cruiser prior 859 after 437


    elite carrier prior 1300 after 475


    something is up with the number before the patch and even worse now .


    i got those values doing solo content as a team it is to hard to keep the values to one target simply because it keeps just adding to the total if you chain kills. and thats the big numbers many players are seeing and happy with. they jsut dont know any better.

    hell tau dewa was still shut down this morning and people were stll spamming for teams there. we who read the forums are a few.

    and a solo run on normal now takes 5 min elite 35 min. i do better to run normal 5 times with breaks inbetween than doing one elite mission


    So basically if your gonna grind patrols, do normal cause it just isnt worth it anymore to do advance or elite. nice nerf.
  • icsairgunsicsairguns Member Posts: 1,504 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I think you must be mistaken. Everyone that has ran any event this evening in our fleet, and so far that's about 20 of us have all reported the exact same thing as well as everyone else in this thread. What XP are you getting, for which ship?

    so good of you to post that i have been staring at the screen for past 8 min trying to figure out how to say what you said without getting another warning from a FmoD. no way i could have been so polite.
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  • cookiecrookcookiecrook Member Posts: 4,538 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    This stealth nerf means I will not be playing any more content until this is fixed along with the reduced DL rewards since the launch of DR. I will however login to get my 60 free Lobi but that is all.
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    If you are reporting a 70% loss on kills, I may have identified Cryptic's error based on the equations they laid out in the patch notes. See here:

    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=20152041&postcount=10

    Could you please test to see how close your figure comes to exactly the loss stated at the end of that?

    That is not to say for sure that it IS an answer or that I have fully accounted for all variables. But that is awfully close to the results you are reporting.

    It would be a massively incompetent error but it may well be this is the cause of what you have observed and if so Cryptic needs to do an emergency maintenance shutdown FAST.

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  • jarfarujarfaru Member Posts: 572 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    tigeraries wrote: »
    So basically if your gonna grind patrols, do normal cause it just isnt worth it anymore to do advance or elite. nice nerf.

    Sorry to tell you but normal got the xp reduced also. I just ran the patrol and noticed a big difference.
  • fatman592fatman592 Member Posts: 1,207 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    1473 bugs in the game, 1473 bugs, you fix one bug and make another one, 1474 bugs in the game.

    It's like an incompetence snowball. It was the size of a bus yesterday, today it's the size of a two-story home...
  • kerriknightkerriknight Member Posts: 274
    edited October 2014
    jarfaru wrote: »
    Sorry to tell you but normal got the xp reduced also. I just ran the patrol and noticed a big difference.

    Can you list the values?

    "A big difference" isn't very concrete.
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    We also need exact values before and after to determine where the error is if, as I suspect, it is a math error in the equation governing the output of XP as related to skill points.

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  • firekeeperhufirekeeperhu Member Posts: 416 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    so now there isn't a reliable source of decent XP in this game. that is just wonderful. i'm seriously considering putting the game away until this got fixed.
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  • kermanikermani Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    trelane87 wrote: »
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  • erei1erei1 Member Posts: 4,081 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    If you can confirm this, please post it in the bug forum, not just here where it'll probably be ignored. Not that it'll necessarily be treated right in the bug forum, but at least its worth a shot.
    Somehow, I'm pretty sure it will be fixed much slowly than the tau dewa "exploit".
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  • narrheehawnarrheehaw Member Posts: 101 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Is a lie~ you kill borg~ kill all borg for leveling, you get dil and marks from borg, you level item.
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  • gpgtxgpgtx Member Posts: 1,579 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    i gain about 3 times more XP now form doffing then actually playing the game this has KILLED my alts as i do not want to grind for a freaking YEAR just to play the new missions

    and now i am reaffirmed why i NEVER wanted the level cap increased.
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  • narrheehawnarrheehaw Member Posts: 101 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    you kill borg to get level 60, you get items and marks!
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  • firekeeperhufirekeeperhu Member Posts: 416 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    narrheehaw wrote: »
    you kill borg to get level 60, you get items and marks!

    i really hope you get paid for this trolling of yours...
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  • annemarie30annemarie30 Member Posts: 2,692 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I honestly don't care about xp as much as i want the marks for reputations
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I'm doing old patrols throughout the game on Advanced.
    (about halfway through Level 55 using my T-6 Eclipse)
    I'm mostly getting between 50 to 130 XP for individual assorted enemy.
    I'm getting 945 xps for each mission I finish also.

    Not sure if this helps any.

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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    valoreah wrote: »
    Just tested Argala system patrol on Elite. Prior to the patch, I was getting ~1750 XP per kill. Now.... 548 XP.

    Certainly hope this is a bug.

    No, that part was not a bug, but was mentioned in patch notes.
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  • dichtbringerdichtbringer Member Posts: 120 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    No, that part was not a bug, but was mentioned in patch notes.

    No it was not. In fact, it said that the EXACT OPPOSITE was true. Argala was correctly scaling from DR launch and so you are ALWAYS fighting mobs that are exactly your level, so there should be no decrease in XP. And the patchnotes even said that you should get MORE XP for killing mobs the same level as you.
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  • graysockgraysock Member Posts: 172 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    valoreah wrote: »
    Just tested Argala system patrol on Elite. Prior to the patch, I was getting ~1750 XP per kill. Now.... 548 XP.

    Certainly hope this is a bug.

    nope, working as intened.

    You now get 2-2,3 times more xp then on normal when running elite while taking 5 times more time.

    We are back where we started with elite difficulty, aka being a waste of time. In the same time you can can kill 5 times the amount of normal ship and get 2,5 times the xp.
  • jarfarujarfaru Member Posts: 572 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    jarfaru wrote: »
    Sorry to tell you but normal got the xp reduced also. I just ran the patrol and noticed a big difference.

    Sorry i just know by how much my xp bar goes up. Before patch i ran the patrol with 3/4 full and got a lvl. I did the same thing and i didn't come close to leveling.
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    No it was not. In fact, it said that the EXACT OPPOSITE was true. Argala was correctly scaling from DR launch and so you are ALWAYS fighting mobs that are exactly your level, so there should be no decrease in XP. And the patchnotes even said that you should get MORE XP for killing mobs the same level as you.

    I haven't logged in since I realized Cryptic robbed me of 300,000 skill points, so I can't confirm what you're saying. But from what I read in the patch notes, it seemed to me that a stiff reduction in XP received was intended.

    Let's hope you're right, though.
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