Hello!

(We apologize for the delayed QOTW, as there were some email issues involved on my end. Sorry about that.) This week, we're going to go in depth with a current hot topic, the "three pools of experience".

Today, our community asked, "Can you elaborate on the "three pools of XP", as noted in a recent interview and discussed by this post?"

Let's see what our developers had to say...

Experience? We got it, in fact, all three types of experience. But in case you find that boast confusing at best, we have to tell you more about how your character will advance in Earthrise.
 
Three types of experience will be available in Earthrise, allowing your Enterran alter-ego to advance through combat, crafting and social activities without enforcing a single, authoritative way of developing your character whether you like it or not. As you shoot and hack your way through the denizens of the dangerous island, you will accumulate combat experience used to unlock skills with combat abilities and tactics that enhance their abilities, as well as passive trainings that strengthen your character. If you stay away from combat, your character can develop through crafting, extracting elements from debris and mutant tissue, constructing various items, designing new enhancements for your items and even repairing items on the go. The final pool of experience, last but not least important, is the social experience that players will acquire through offline gameplay and will invest it in new more influential and better paying jobs as your characters climb the corporate ladder. Each experience pool will be separate from the others, allowing a character to specialize in one of the three forementioned areas depending on their actions in the game. While your character could ultimately develop in all areas and no artifical limitations will be set, your only boundary will be time - as developing your character as a jack-of-all-trades will be very time consuming - and your own goals you've set for yourself and your character.

Enjoy!
~ m.

So social XP and its progression is strictly limited to off-line?

Will crafting XP cover possible ingame social skills? I'm thinking of what would be ER's anologues to EVE's marketing and corporate leadership skills and others along that vien.

Good news Im happy with this QOTW

So whomever spends the most time OFFLINE makes the social A-list and has the best job? Uh...

real lives? is this an xp pool also? i'm confused please explain this thing to me....

Yes, the more time you are logged out the more offline income and social XP one earns.  This social XP is used to increase the "job level" for the player so they can earn even more money while offline.

What we don't know is whether or not this offline "job level" influences any other game mechanics.  We also don't know what this passive rate of income is like compared to actively earning income while playing the game.

That aside, I really, really wished more would have been said about the uses of social XP beyond just increasing the offline earning power of a player.  I really hope there is more to social XP than just that.

Thanks for hte question of the week!


Well, I don't really know what to say. I mean, I like the game mechanic and it is clear to me, so no questions either..

So... uhm.. keep up the good work?

I do agree with you, when I first heard social xp, I thought it was refering to what was SWG's entertainment (pre-NGE naturally).

Like others pointed, it is more a veteran xp than anything else... until we know more about it : especially the parts of online tools and interface.
Anyway it is strange that we'll have to be "out of the game" to be social.