"Probobly most of you guys wont agree but here goes."

= yep.. i dont agree.. if you've been around beta days.. you'll surely wont post this :)

"So as you know there are alot of noob players on high lvl ships. The reason is because they get there too quickly.
They dont learn the game properly and thus cause alot of frustration to other players. If we make it more of a challange
to get to the higher lvl ships, more people will learn the game properly and not line fight in a BB5 (Ive seen it ALOT)."

= yeah.. there are more noob BB's out there.. it's good for me more food, bad for them.. :)) ... wait wait wait.. dont tell me this nooblets are killing you all the time? xD

You're not going to make people become better, it'll just take another week or two from playing the same amount of hours.

So unless negative exp is made far more common, this suggestion is pointless.

I'll put this out there.

In beta I had the 3rd BB4 and first CV4. It took 3 of us playing the account pretty much non-stop for MONTHS to get these.

5k experiance was good and 15k was AMAZING!

Since my origional account was lost I hardly play but when I do I get enough I can level up without playing all the time. I don't care if there are noob BB5's and 6's. I eat them for xp. Soloed the French BB6 in my Selvesta today and it was great.

You would lose so many people if they had to grind like you did back in beta, or even close to it.

Dropping shared exp sounds like a good idea to me to be honest. As said, the past few years peoples skill have been dropping tremendiously.

For example VetS. They still are good players but back in the day they were the pinacle of skill. Everyone thought of them being the top notch of the players. At the moment its not like that anymore. Like i said their still good players.

Thing is that people are getting spoiled with exp. 15K exp is normal. Especially with this event going on. I do agree, if 15K was awesome in Beta, i dont want that low exp. But we should figure out a system that rewards skill. But to a point that its not way too hard to start playing NF when your a newbie.

Reducing shared exp is going to help alot IMO. You learn the most from BB1/CV1 to BB3/CV3.

grinding is part of a level based game
higher lvl does not always translate into higher skills
sometimes it does, though

my suggestion:

1) do not give away exp during the events.

otherwise, people grow too fast and get used to this easy pace.
many other items can attract a strong interest from the players (vet packs, conversion rate, elite sailors, event ships, and so many other) and make participating worth it.

2) make it so that players have to "unlock" the next ship by killing a certain number of ships of that class

got a FF? go kill DD1s of any nation (5 of them? more?)
this apply to the next ship only (DD killing CAs will not unlock anything)
players would continue to gain exp in a normal way, eventually allowing them to use better sailors on their current ship.

pros:

learning the traits of the other ships (very useful when it comes to armour, range, speed,...)
better awareness of the merits of a proper set up (crew and armament)
selecting the targets and concentrating on that job
making sound decisions when selecting a ship line
learning how a team (even an occasional one) operates
get a proven record

cons

it would slow the progress along the ship tree (less for skilled individuals)
kills would have to be achieved in widely open modes only (BK and the GBs), thus restricting the players choice for a period of time
some would try to organise ABs, but if so many people are in fact competing for the targets, this may fade.
can expect some whining about "stolen" kills
some other would try to gang up, but is it that bad? (apart from the victim point of view)...

any good?
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