the twisted reason is ... 'the community' whined and whined about NERF THE 'OMG-OP' SUBS ...

so TORPEDO dmg and xp got nerfed .. this happens to affect ALL torpedoes .. including ship and plane versions

it basically ruined the kita which why you rarley see many in GB anymore .. also ruined the TB's for CV players

basically ...
the twisted reason is ..... SDE listening to 'the community' and nerfing based on so many whiner complaints ..

MMmmm....I feel GB1 doesn't give CVs the EXP deserved.

Shooting down planes is something not all CVs focus on.
I know that I ignore ALL planes on my side of the battle field, unless its a large group of DBs,
maybe I need to change that, because its not worth waiting so long for only 17-20k exp...

then perhaps you could try hosting GB2 rooms if you miss the GB2 exp .. ?
i think you got used to that sink-the-flag bonus padding and miss it in GB1



yes you do maybe need to change that if you're doing the 'career cv path' thing ...

The idea behind hiding exact calculations is that it avoids exploitation. Different MMOs take different approaches to formula hiding, and there's no perfect way to accomplish the goal of encouraging good behaviour.

If you make random teams and give XP only based on wins and losses, the better players have less control over their rewards. If you incentivize helpful activities like shooting enemy ships and planes, you give better players more control over their rewards, but you also encourage players to focus more on selfish behaviours than on things like scouting, and so on. So you add more incentives for the less tangible but still important activities, using complicated algorithms to determine things like how much vision you provided for your team and how much damage was dealt to ships that were only illuminated because of you. (There's another thread right now suggesting more different things that could be incentivized to encourage team play through selfish play.) But the more complicated the reward system gets, the easier it gets to game the system and abuse mechanics in ways that weren't intended.

There's at least two approaches at that point: you can give XP only based on wins and losses, which is the most thorough way to encourage teamplay--so that winning is all that matters. Except now you're back at the first problem. The other way is to make the incentives difficult to exploit by not revealing how they work. This is only partially effective, and it causes the problem you have now: you don't know if there's a better way to earn experience than what you've been doing.



I bet most players aren't happy with the way SDE does it, but I don't think many players could come up with something more popular, either, so here we are.