So... Since i got my trident i have used it rather exclusively a lot of the time, constantly trying to push its boundaries in combat.

Now, it was great fun enough before, and ive gained somethijng like 28,000 kills total, of which my trident has directly achieved no less than 23,000, possibly 25,000 of those kills. All ai bots of course, mostly hive, occasijonaly sf when im bored...

But not one of these kills has offered any experience. It seems turret attacks do not offer any xp whatsoever, except within the confines of missions, and then is only the scripted xp.

Now that the capital turrets have been improved and allow some pretty serious combat applications... Can we have some xp direct from kills please? I killed so many things with my dent, i ought to have gained some xp at least, from collectors to arklan guardians, and recently queens and even a teradon... and not one point of xp.

Please fix this!

Maybe an altogether new licence is in order... The turret license, covering access to turrets directly, with high levels being needed for the best turrets, i.e. lvl 10 for the caprails.

would badges counting kills from turrets be easier? still, makes sense that pilots should have experience with turrets themselves to purchase high-end turrets that require pilot skill.

+1

Seems lame that turret kills don't reward any XP

Even a badge counter would be something. Its not that im really bothered about license, im at 12+ on all its just its doesnt make sense hehe

Any shield ship should not give xp. Except maybe if the shields drop. Otherwise someone could just run a script that automatically fires the turrets and go afk for an hour and come to a bunch of free xp with almost zero danger of death from the bots.

+1 wants turret xp :p

I think that the issue is that Turrets aren't a light or large weapon, they are a turret, and it feels wrong to say "combat XP". I'd happily say yes to a badge. Hell, id design a badge...

Any kind of reward for the kills would be acceptable - even xp at a heavily reduced rate - one tenth even would be something.

Still want this hehe

+1

What, so you can go ahead and farm XP aswell with your bots?

-1, fine as it is, not to mention turrets have auto-target so what's the point of being rewarded for pressing a button?

what's the point of being rewarded at all when you hop in a turret on a hive or deneb mission and just press the button then?

28,000 kills should see some form of reward. +1

-1

Killing hive bots without a mission:
a) you do not get any combat xp, regardless of what weapon you use.
b) you get light/heavy xp, depending on what weapon you use, and what bot you kill.

Killing hive bots with a mission:
a) you gain combat/light/heavy xp, according to the mission, regardless of what weapon you use.

The one thing missing from turret, is turret xp. I think turret xp would be far too easy to earn, and thus should be worthless, and not be required for anything. And thus, that the devs do not even bother to track turret xp, tracks with my estimation of it's worth.

You want some weapon xp? Get your pansy ass out of the turret and use a weapon.

I understand the motivation for the suggestion but it just makes it way to easy to level up alts. I don't see a way around it. The reward is the drops (or, in Deneb, the kills towards victory).

Again, thats why we suggested it be its own liscence, so it doesnt affect how others are earned, and why i said it would work better as a badge >...>

The linking in to light , heavy, or combat xp does seem to be bad for the gameplay, but something would be nice. Anything!

A badge seems the best way to go, seeing the sensible comments about bots and things, but maybe this could be approached differently...

How about having a simple counter of each bot type you can check like the queen/levi kills, so maybe even if you dont get any xp, you could still see something more, like the fact i have now killed probably ten teradons - so id see ten teradon kills in that list.

And probably about 20,000 arklans behe

42,000 kills now hehe