The Veteran Levels

[Nericus]

First, I like them.  They are a nice way to restore the vet badges.

 

But as I recall, they stop after 99, and I have heard of no plan to add anymore of them, which is fine. 

 

Yet I see some people that are significantly higher then vet level 99, which again is fine, mileage varies and to each their own.  But aside from in game status symbols or a players own sense of gratification/ego, and the occasional level up buff,  wouldn't it be better at vet level 99 to shut off XP gain and just rack up influence?

[Veracor]

As someone who is vet level 528 I can assure you that I don't need more inf.

[wjrasmussen]

21 minutes ago, Veracor said:

As someone who is vet level 528 I can assure you that I don't need more inf.

How do you know for sure?  Do you have so much influence that you will give me a billion influence?  If not, then you don't have enough.

[Nericus]

29 minutes ago, Veracor said:

As someone who is vet level 528 I can assure you that I don't need more inf.

Well if you have 2 billion inf on that alt then yeah that is enough unless they raised the limit.

 

I mainly ask as my main is closing in on vet level 99, just wondering if I need to go past that point.

[Myrmidon]

On 7/27/2019 at 3:31 AM, Nericus said:

Well if you have 2 billion inf on that alt then yeah that is enough unless they raised the limit.

 

I mainly ask as my main is closing in on vet level 99, just wondering if I need to go past that point.

There is no practical reason to when you can convert that wasted XP into influence.

[Gavric]

This is why most modern MMO's are failures.  Levels and, "End Game", are toxic concepts to a game you're supposed to keep playing--and paying for.  What more do I do, once I've reached the end?

 

Bad developers!  No donut!  Stop making scaling systems that have an end!

[Apogee]

Holy thread necro Batman!

[SuperPlyx]

What I find interesting is original post was July 26.... So server was online what 3 months and already had toons well over vet level 99.  That says something about how much people love playing this game.

[DoctorDitko]

To the point, though, did recent changes make it so turning off XP isn't useful?

 

[SuperPlyx]

1 hour ago, DoctorDitko said:

To the point, though, did recent changes make it so turning off XP isn't useful?

 

Yep,last patch:

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Influence gain can no longer be increased by disabling XP

 

[Abraxus]

3 hours ago, DoctorDitko said:

To the point, though, did recent changes make it so turning off XP isn't useful?

 

Not useless.  Just less lucrative.

[Display Name]

I was on a server were Vet levels had been turned off.  You still earn salvage/threads/etc, but you didn't progress past level 50.  I didnt see any difference at all in gameplay other than the loss of salvage generated from leveling as a Vet.