Why Did They . . .

xaatxuun · Post by **xaatxuun** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:22 pm

why did they remove loot drops from the aliens ,on noob Island ?

and whats the deal with the XP ?

I mean, I do not stick around there long enough to have noticed , that it is non-existent after you ding level 9. I was keeping a toon there, to help any friends that may start AO, so I decided to just hang out longer with this latest toon , strange that I can get 390-400xp from level 4 mobs when I am lvl8, but that is it, they go Grey after that, and what mobs that are not Grey, your lucky to get more then 81xp, and that is from lvl 7 mobs. Only thing left are the aliens, and the lowest there is lvl 10 (not counting spiders), And I get the same xp from them if I was lvl 7, 8 or 9, it was 130 something.

anyways curious to know why it is like it is now. I remember before they patched it, and they placed a max level for there, because everyone was starting new toons farming AI-XP , but still why did they take further by removing the loot, and so little xp

Uragon · Post by **Uragon** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:06 pm

The loot table on the starter island have been simplified (some people also call it nerfed

) in order to lower the confusion of new players. Seeing a shiny weapon drop that you can't equip because you don't have the expansion was apparently a too complicated issue for some new players.

The beach and robot mobs had the XP they give artificially raised in order to make levelling on the island a bit easier. The remaining higher level mobs basically give more or less normal XP as you'll encounter it on the mainland.

xaatxuun · Post by **xaatxuun** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:31 pm

ahh okay, makes good sense for doing what they did.