Solo xp bonus. - Phoenix Freeshard

I would hazard a guess that the best and fastest way to level up is in a full group with the correct classes grinding away on the best camps.

The other thing people do is the so called "social group" or as I call it antisocial group-- I personally hate everyone

What about those who really need to play solo?

I have a special needs child who requires my absolute and total attention sometimes at unexpected moments. I tend to solo a lot. I like to login and grind out a level and log out. I might play 4 hours in one day but in 20 minute intervals.

My observation of actual solo xp rate here is that it really is quite slow. So that it might take a person in my circumstance who logs in, does 20 minutes 6 x a day a good little while to get to the point where I could play in the bgs and rvr and such.

My suggestion is to somehow make it so that there is a social bonus for ie social group without being in a group. Like a minimum group size even if ur solo.

So for example-- best scenario full group, optimized, slaying it-- you get all the best of everything.

Social group of 8 players, u get the best bonus except for an optimized group.

Solo, treat it like you had 4 players ( a minimum) for the bonus even if ur solo.

Wed 11 Jul 2018 5:31 PM by

gruenesschaf

The anti social groups are a bug. And it's true that our solo xp is rather terrible compared to the group xp.

For solos however we have the killtasks / collection tasks (kill stuff, turn in drops): http://playphoenix.wiki/collection-tasks-albion/

Wed 11 Jul 2018 5:39 PM by relvinian

Is there a limit on how many u can turn in?

Also, if the social group is a "bug" then why not make it a feature because I think people like ur bug

And I think my little suggestion or anything else that helps solo play increases diversity of choice which makes for a more inclusive play style and more populated server.

Man I love using all those diversity and inclusive words, I want to give the world a big hug.

Wed 11 Jul 2018 10:09 PM by relvinian

I would describe actual solo xp as uthgardish. Uthgardlike? Like uthgard. slow. painful. kill me with a spoon. death.

Wed 11 Jul 2018 10:49 PM by Quik

Yeah I hope they give soloers a boost also.

With my own child and a wife who demands almost as much attention, it is easier to just solo a lot.

Thu 12 Jul 2018 1:50 AM by Budikah

Hard to conjure up a solo bonus that isn't going to put solo farming classes to the moon and back. I've thought about it as well, and I don't particularly have any grand ideas.

I group, but at times, particularly after work, I like to just veg out and go at my own speed. Would be nice to speed it up a bit in that regard, but I don't have any grand ideas.

Thu 12 Jul 2018 2:27 AM by Isavyr

Budikah wrote: ↑
Thu 12 Jul 2018 1:50 AM
Hard to conjure up a solo bonus that isn't going to put solo farming classes to the moon and back. I've thought about it as well, and I don't particularly have any grand ideas.

I group, but at times, particularly after work, I like to just veg out and go at my own speed. Would be nice to speed it up a bit in that regard, but I don't have any grand ideas.

Even if you had perfectly balanced coefficients (armsman makes 50% more xp per kill than necro to justify for long rest-time), I wonder if some people would be upset with the disparities. That's always a solution though, as the number of classes isn't changing and thus tweaking the coefficients is very do-able.

However, with the increased rest speed, some solo players will find their XP effectively boosted. Since necros don't rest at all, they aren't winning by quite as much as they would on a vanilla server ("Uthgard"

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Edit: 2 more things.

[list=2]Nice to see your reasonable posts again, Budikah.

Relv: I thought you weren't going to play here? You stated as much on Uthgard forum.

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Thu 12 Jul 2018 3:20 AM by relvinian

Finding a way to help solo players xp, assuming its not ridiculous, will not harm anyone else's xp in any way.

The more possible "correct" ways to play on a server the more people can take advantage of the server and play.

If there are a very limited number of correct ways, well the other thing.

As for me not playing here. I'm still not playing here. I'm beta testing.

Thu 12 Jul 2018 3:23 AM by

gruenesschaf

As I said, our solo xp is rather terrible compared to the group xp. We're open to more suggestions.

There is currently a vote internally going on for something that might help, that would go live together when we remove / fix the anti social groups with a range check as just removing that would make solo play even worse.

Thu 12 Jul 2018 3:32 AM by relvinian

Sounds good. This is the time to test things and fix things.