TOPIC: Pointshop Suggestion - Timed XP Bonuses

Server Name: Any and all pointshop servers

Suggestion Title: XP bonuses

How would it benefit the server: So there's two options to this, or both could be used:

• Set XP bonuses for completing a map. Example, if you finish a bhop map and that bhop map gives you 50xp normally, this bonus would give you 30, 50 or 100xp (or whatever is balanced) on top of that every time you finished; either for a set amount of finishes or period of time. The 3 increments would be associated with their rarity, so obviously 100 would be legendary or rare etc.
• XP % bonuses for completing a map. Following the above example, 50xp for a map. This bonus would give 1.5x, 2x and 4x (or whatever is balanced) of the maps xp reward. Again, bonuses would be associated with their rarity and would either have a period of time that the bonus lasts for or a amount of map finishes.

In both cases these would be available in card packs and would be consumed upon use. Could cost diamonds to craft or could not. The other option is to make it part of the VIP bonus for bhop/surf etc. I would prefer to see timed bonuses over a numbered finish bonus length as this would keep players playing on the server for longer periods to maximise their xp boost.

Potential Issues/Exploits: None, if coded properly, but at the end of the day there isn't much benefit to leveling up so I doubt this could be exploited. Just make sure each card has a one time use.

Additional notes: Would just like to see xp bonuses in the packs in some form. Not sure if this has been suggested before but I couldn't find any mention of it. (maybe I'm blind)

I don't play bhop but sounds like a cool idea

As it stands, the XP system is different on every server and not part of the Pointshop. Your rank is server-specific and the server owners are individually able to decide how much XP you get for any given task. Some servers have 50 levels, some have less and some servers use a prestige system while others don't. Without a "central" XP system your suggestion is probably not viable for all Pointshop Servers and would probably have to be implemented outside of the Pointshop on specific servers (eg. Surf and BHOP)

Martin wrote: What's the possibility like of having cards that only appear on certain servers, say if you have a bhop specific pack filled with diamonds/xp bonuses that don't appear on other servers?

euan wrote:
I don't really think that would work well. I always try to make all new features of the Pointshop accessible on all Pointshop servers. Adding something to the pointshop that can only be used on a specific server would put the other servers at a disadvantage - there'd have to be a new system for server-specific items, a new way to obtain the server-specific items that is only possible on these servers and a lot of balancing and testing to make sure it doesn't break the XP economy on these servers. It'd be quite a lot of work that results in a feature that only works on specific servers. I'd rather put development time into features that are available on all servers for now, especially considering my *giant* list of things I want to change about the Pointshop that are still to be implemented.

Martin wrote: Chance to do something with flat xp drops that are significant enough across all servers but not game breaking across any too? There must be some form of middle ground that fits all servers?