What's the point of lowering the exp?

As you might know, z8 seems to lower our average exp per game since the HMX update. I personally think this is a bug and it is not intentional.

1. Some people say that it is done deliberately due to the farming issues. However in this thread, http://forum.z8games.com/showthread.php?t=142453 clearly tells us that z8 doesn't care much about farming. Z8 accepts farming will always be there, and there might not be a way to stop it even though they don't encourage it.

I think most people farm only for the following purposes:

-Rank up to unlock weapons or items.
-Get a high kd to obtain the Clutch Killer ribbon

For ranking up purposes, I think those are the lower level people who wants guns such as SCAR Light and they probably don't farm after SFC. And, Rank up doesn't get you anything:

http://crossfire.z8games.com/guide_ranking_soldiers.aspx

As you can see, you don't get anything after SFC 1. You don't even get temporary items or GP. As a result, it really makes no sense to make the players promote slower.


As for the KD ribbon, people can farm and get it. However, this ribbon will disappear if you don't have a kd of 2. Therefore, I don't think z8 is too concerned about this because people who farms for the ribbon may not have the ability to maintain it.

Unless you have 6 people in your room or above, your farm kills are not included for badges, so farming really don't get you much...and farming gets boring very fast. When you farm someone, you have to kill the person, might damage your gun, and wait for the person to revive, wait for 3 sec then kill him again. It gets very repetitive.


Another form of farming is that you kill a noob player you don't know, such as 1 vs 1, to get KDs. But, the noobs are not stupid. Usually, if you kill them too many times they just quit the game and you usually don't get much KD. Also, it is really hard to find a noob for 1 vs 1 farming because not a lot of people enter 1 vs 1 rooms unless they are confident.


-Since they make it harder to level up, those who really want to level up may farm more intensely to achieve certain rank. If preventing farming was z8's purpose, then congrats they might have made a counter effect.


2. No official comment from Z8.
-From what I know about Z8, when they don't make any comment on their changes, they are usually something that they did not do. So far, there are no GMs or official statements such as, "We have lowered the average exp in order to prevent farming activities...". A lot of people mention this in the forum so z8 must have seen this and decided not to answer until the day it is fixed. Remember when the loading problem (Stuck at 90%) first came out? They never mention that until the day they fixed it.


3. Compare to other FPS games, it is really really hard to level up in CF. I don't think making it even harder would get the players happy. In fact, a lot of people are complaining about this.


I really don't think z8 lowers the exp on purpose, but if they did, oh well...I don't think it's a good idea.