1/2 Half XP Option

[Juggerobb]

Early Game leveling - especially when playing in a team - is entirely too fast. I'm often out-leveling contacts faster than I can complete their mission arc.  I am aware that there is an option to turn off XP gain. However, this is not a rewarding gameplay experience. I suggest creating a "buff" that allows for only 1/2 xp gain (similar to the 2x xp gain at the Start Vendors). 

[Greycat]

*looks up at "Double XP is active on all shards."* 

 

... yep. Would love it. 

[Rudra]

12 minutes ago, Greycat said:

*looks up at "Double XP is active on all shards."* 

 

... yep. Would love it. 

Any idea how long double xp is supposed to last? Want to know how long to avoid the game.

[srmalloy]

20 minutes ago, Rudra said:

Any idea how long double xp is supposed to last? Want to know how long to avoid the game.

Supposed to run until Tuesday, from what I understand. Probably turn off with the Tuesday maintenance.

[srmalloy]

1 hour ago, srmalloy said:

Supposed to run until Tuesday, from what I understand. Probably turn off with the Tuesday maintenance.

Unfortunately, Cipher's post on the Discord states "We've also enabled Double XP on all shards until at least Tuesday (duration TBD)." so the actual duration may be longer.

[lemming]

I still want an "I don't want to go past level X" option

[Ghost]

10 hours ago, Rudra said:

Any idea how long double xp is supposed to last? Want to know how long to avoid the game.

You misunderstood.

It wasn’t turned on for 3 days - it was turned on for 3 days of playing time.  🤭

Hide for as long as you like, for it will be there for you upon your return. 😈😈

 

Instead of being emotional and punishing yourself, why not just turn off your XP?

Edited October 13 by Ghost

[Rudra]

4 hours ago, Ghost said:

Instead of being emotional and punishing yourself, why not just turn off your XP?

Because there is a floor plan I am working on and a few other games I can play that I enjoy for that time instead. And if I feel like I don't want to wait that long after all, I will. Until my desire to play overcomes my hatred of attempts to shove xp down my throat though, I'm going to be taking a pause on playing.

[Jacke]

For those wanting to turn off XP for their Toon (like most times running a Completionist Toon), I suggest this macro:

/macro oXP "optiontoggle noxp"

 

 

[Ghost]

1 hour ago, Rudra said:

Because there is a floor plan I am working on and a few other games I can play that I enjoy for that time instead. And if I feel like I don't want to wait that long after all, I will. Until my desire to play overcomes my hatred of attempts to shove xp down my throat though, I'm going to be taking a pause on playing.

But aren’t you now just piling up PatrolXP ?

 

[Rudra]

37 minutes ago, Ghost said:

But aren’t you now just piling up PatrolXP ?

 

Yes. On every one of my characters in the game. Nothing I can do about that.

[MsSmart]

Would cautious use of the option/general/disable exp help with the leveling too quick?

[srmalloy]

On 10/13/2025 at 11:53 AM, Ghost said:

But aren’t you now just piling up PatrolXP ?

To a point; you can only accumulate 10 bars of Patrol XP before it stops. And as a corrollary to this, the change where exploration badges stopped awarding XP directly and started awarding Patrol XP changed how my characters approach exploring the city. Previously, I would run around completing the badge and plaque sets for zones as soon as I could expect the character to survive getting them; now, I only run around enough to accumulate ten bars of patrol XP, then play through enough content to run that down to a bar or two, then explore more to build up the reserve of patrol XP again, rinse and repeat -- and as a result, I have characters at 50 who have not fully explored all the zones even just blueside, much less changing alignment to vigilante and running through redside, or going goldside for those zones.

[tidge]

I really miss the option to disable XP and earn Inf, specifically because I would do this at low levels to get that at-launch feel. Sadly, this option made it too easy to earn ridiculous amounts of Influence with even less effort than it takes today... so I accept that I simply must disable XP.

[Scarlet Shocker]

On 10/13/2025 at 12:00 AM, Juggerobb said:

Early Game leveling - especially when playing in a team - is entirely too fast. I'm often out-leveling contacts faster than I can complete their mission arc.  I am aware that there is an option to turn off XP gain. However, this is not a rewarding gameplay experience. I suggest creating a "buff" that allows for only 1/2 xp gain (similar to the 2x xp gain at the Start Vendors). 

 

I would be greatly in favour of this if it were optional. 

[MTeague]

I'm not opposed to the idea. But honestly, I think gaining Half XP, you'd still probably outlevel contacts, so sooner or later, you'll still probably need to tag "No XP" option. But I guess it depends if you're trying to do just one contact per level bracket, or if you're trying to do several story arcs in that level bracket.

[tidge]

3 minutes ago, MTeague said:

I'm not opposed to the idea. But honestly, I think gaining Half XP, you'd still probably outlevel contacts, so sooner or later, you'll still probably need to tag "No XP" option. But I guess it depends if you're trying to do just one contact per level bracket, or if you're trying to do several story arcs in that level bracket.

 

I think you are right. One big difference between now-and-then that is especially obvious at low levels is that there is no debt at low levels, and patrol XP makes debt practically irrelevant anyway.

[Arbegla]

The best way to turn on 'half' xp is to get debt, from dying. There's a few ways to max debt pretty easily, but Blarf in pocket D is the easiest way if you know what you're doing. Just rez in pocket d, and go poke at him a few times and you'll get debt. There is a 'debt cap' but as you can just keep dying to refill it, its not nearly as hard to refresh as say Patrol XP.

Debt also burns patrol XP first, so if you have a ton of that, you can just suicide yourself to clear that away, and then get more debt. Back before we could turn off XP I used to max debt on my completionist toon to try to not out level contacts.