08-09-2013, 01:28 PM
This has been suggested before, but your variation hasn't been.
One major problem with your idea about XP being assigned on how often a shield takes damage is that sometimes shields don't take damage... With 3 shielders, 4 commandos behind and 3 pikemen behind that, as well as ranged shooting the shield wall. A shielder some times won't take many hits during a wave. Also, the thrid shielder is often off to the side, only taking 50% of the hits, it is often only 1 shielder taking the majority of the hits. Also second suggestion is very open to abuse, people would just AFK with their shield up and let it get hit, or there will be 2 people on a server hitting each others shields.
As it has been said before by myself and many others, yes it sucks that some times shielders/healers get little praise for the sacrifice they make, but it is a team game and someone needs to do it if the team wants to get far. It is up to the other players to share the load, by either helping out in other ways, or switching with shielders/healers so it isn't the same people doing it all the time. (Though that will never happen, as a good portion of NI players are selfish or simply don't want to play an infantry class for example, but sadly that is the game we choose to play).
One major problem with your idea about XP being assigned on how often a shield takes damage is that sometimes shields don't take damage... With 3 shielders, 4 commandos behind and 3 pikemen behind that, as well as ranged shooting the shield wall. A shielder some times won't take many hits during a wave. Also, the thrid shielder is often off to the side, only taking 50% of the hits, it is often only 1 shielder taking the majority of the hits. Also second suggestion is very open to abuse, people would just AFK with their shield up and let it get hit, or there will be 2 people on a server hitting each others shields.
As it has been said before by myself and many others, yes it sucks that some times shielders/healers get little praise for the sacrifice they make, but it is a team game and someone needs to do it if the team wants to get far. It is up to the other players to share the load, by either helping out in other ways, or switching with shielders/healers so it isn't the same people doing it all the time. (Though that will never happen, as a good portion of NI players are selfish or simply don't want to play an infantry class for example, but sadly that is the game we choose to play).