BEP/CEP help!

[Arkitan]

OK sometimes when I have been fighting at a base for hours and fighting hard, and we finally take the base I get jack for BEP

Other times we waltz in with almost no resistance and we get crazy amounts of BEP

Can someone please explain to me how the BEP/CEP works in this game?

[Onizuka]

Well, thats just weird. Basically, all I know is that a little while before the hack starts, to when the hack is over, the game records the number of enemies you have killed within the enemy soi.
It also gives you much much more experience if you were there before 10 min before the hack ended and if you have at least killed someone (or someone in your squad has).
Of course im not sure about all this, this has all come from personal experience, but its gotta be pretty close :cool:

[Incompetent]

Originally posted by Cyber
Thought I'd post this since there seems to be some confusion as to how base experience works.

For captures:

Base experience is measured in time slices of 5 seconds each starting 10 minutes before the hack and the 15 minutes during the hack.

Experience is based off of the number of enemies in the SOI (you don't even have to get a 'kill' you and them both just have to be in the SOI) during each timeslice. More enemies the more valuable the timeslice.

Smokejumper:

"The max award you can get for a base cap is 5000xp. You can get this by fighting at bases for a significant chunk of the hack (and pre-hack) time with enemies in the area. That's pretty much all there is to it.

Enemies in SOI = experience.

No enemies = no experience.


In a squad when the hack goes through everyone's slices are added up and then the total experience is shared among the squad.

For resecures the system is similar. It's again based off time slices and the number of enemies in the SOI. The longer your in the SOI before resecuring and the more enemies that are there the better the XP.

In both cases the game in some ways rewards leaving the enemy a spawn point so you can continue to battle them for the duration of the resecure or the capture. SOE defends this as 'risk vs reward' based experience. If you take more risk to resecure or capture a base your reward is higher. *shrugs*

But the important things to remember that some players (due to different rules in beta) confuse are:

- You no longer have to get a 'kill' in the SOI to gain XP, though getting kills definately helps you figure out how many enemies are there in the SOI and if staying is worthwhile.

- You do no have to have anyone remaining in the SOI to gain the experience. If you leave and the hack goes through you will still gain the XP for the slices you were in the SOI for.

- It's more advantagous for the entire squad to be in the SOI of one contested base rather then spreading ourselves out to several bases many of which are not very contested. Because the slices of all squad members are added up if you only had 1 or 2 guys in the SOI then you will only have thier slices to add up and share.

You would net more XP if you keep more of the squad in the same SOI. This is why at times we fight in bases that appear they would easily make a 5k capture but then only net around 3000 for the cap. We had several squadmates who were elsewhere so they didn't contribute slices to the total. I'm not saying this is always a bad thing, many times those guys are doing important things, just that leaving 1 or 2 guys in other uncontested bases to 'get the XP' is not as worthwhile as moving everyone to the hotly contested base (hotly contested base is also more 'fun' imo :) ) We would be best off sticking together and seeking out those bases were there is alot of combat still.

Smokejumpers post can be found here: http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/planetside/Forum7/HTML/002922.html

[Jaged]

Originally posted by Arkitan
OK sometimes when I have been fighting at a base for hours and fighting hard, and we finally take the base I get jack for BEP

Other times we waltz in with almost no resistance and we get crazy amounts of BEP

Can someone please explain to me how the BEP/CEP works in this game?
:confused:

[Arkitan]

thanks for the info ill take a look and see if those times that we get crap for BEP if we are spread out or outside the SOI

thanks again