Best way to rack up points

[Maverick Knight]

Okay, i'm on the official site's Leaderboard, and I see these people with points up in the hundred thousands and on up. How do they do that? Is there some tactic I'm missing, or do they just play for like 6 hours a day? How do you rack up the big points
(cheap tactics suggestions welcome :p)

I'm NC, use the Phoenix and snipe a lot, and can hold my own in a fight. I'm br8.0 and cr0.9.
:sniper:

[BUGGER]

follow your friendly zergs. :nod:

[Maverick Knight]

Zerg? I haven't heard that one outside of Starcraft before...

[reaver101]

It is when a massive group of players from the same empire get together to cap a base and then they move across the cont capping as many bases as possible. It is a good (if a little boring) way of racking up exp. (Playing 6 hours a day doesn't hurt either :D )

[Maverick Knight]

But you don't get much xp from those Mass Captures unless you or your squad contributed to the cap. And if you're solo, you have to contribute a LOT. Seems like that strategy would work, if you could get enough kills.

[reaver101]

With the ability of the enemy to spawn at a hacked base now it isn't to hard for your squad to get a few kills in order to get the exp.

[Pilgrim]

Don't need kills to get cap XP, just need to be there, thus why the zerg is so effective.

The best thing to do is predict where the Zerg is going, get there early, stand around in the SOI doing nothing... wait for the hack... stand around doing nothing... then leave to the next base before the cap goes.

Do this on a properly deffended enemy base (and spend around 5-10 minutes there while the SOI is heavily populated) and it's a 5000 xp cap... everytime.

I'm not even really a support slacker, but when I need a BR I'll solo and do exactly what I said above, works like a charm!

PAX

[Arakiel]

Go solo and kill lots of stuff. You'll pop 300 XP per MAX and 100-200 XP per infantry if you're not in a squad.

[Streamline]

Get a skeeter cert... Look on your map. Select a continent that is close to being poplocked or is poplocked and go wait in the gate til you get in. Once in check your map again. Look for bases that have a hack in progress and the nme has the tower. Look for other things aswell like. Is the base nuetral? Is the gen down? Are the tubes down. The more screwed up a base is the better chances for a max 5000 xp hit to even be posible. Then spend as much time int he SOI as posible while nmee are there. Killing is optional and you can use that skeeter cert to get from base to base quickly. Check the map often and if you have a means of checking hart times you can recall and skip to another continent if circumstances are in your favor. But thats if you're into that sort of thing. To me it sounds kinda boring. But you gotta admit it's pretty easy.

[Maverick Knight]

I thought you actually had to DO something in order to get some xp from a base cap. I can remember getting like 50xp from a base cap when i didn't do anything (but that might have been because I just got there). Is xp determined by amount of kills or amount of time?

[Squick]

Amount of time with enemies in the soi. The count starts 10 min before the hack. The more enemies in the soi the more xp per 5-second "tick."

Squick

[Maverick Knight]

Hey, that works! I just got 5000xp for basically showing up!

It almost seems unfair...

[Diviant]

"Almost" is the key word there :p

[Streamline]

I once got 1600+xp for logging on and joining a squad while waiting for the hart. I've also gotten 500+xp for stepping into the soi seconds before the cap and never drew my weapon once.

[BUGGER]

man i'd folo zergs all the time, but only if i dind't have aol. :(

[Hertston]

As they say, find and follow the Zerg. Providing you have a "grunt" rather than "support" type character you will get XP faster if you solo.. you just need to stay with that zerg or (preferably) just ahead of it.

The sooner they change the XP system the better, at the moment it's killing the game. Tag along with the zerg, and gain thousands of XP for doing nothing. Spend hours on a desperate defense and you get bugger all.

If I were you I'd forget all about it.. you'll have a lot more fun that way, and still accumulate XP at a decent enough rate. You'll never catch those at the top, so why bother trying ?

[basano]

following the zerg will get you points, i wont say its the best way to get xp though. in primetime, yes, there isnt much choice. play during off peak hours and it gets much better. play in smaller squads, 2-5, goto those conts that dont normaly have huge followings. find the smaller 5-20 players per side battles. i cant say for sure where most my xp came from, but i would be surprised if i got more during prime time, then late night. there is lots of hacking/saving going on with these battles. the best part about this is gamplay seems to shine here. the MMO portion of this game is very good, but smaller battles are more intense and 1 person can make a difference. as far as support, i'm adv hack, CE, crappy ams driver. cyclor does the major portion of my kills, i dont use max, and use skeeto to get from one base to the next. (basano = worst pilot in the game)

pdox, basano, and hadeez normaly on the konreid xp board when it works

[iKernel]

wait till after a base just gets hacked then fly over to the vehicle term in a reaver. sum1 did that to me they got like 10 kills.

[Biohazzard56]

Get into a good outfit , make your self known in the outfit , and then "zerg" with them , i dont know what wrong with it but hell yea what ever works , NC got most territory award for 3 days straight last week :)