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WHat are some ways to earn survival XP besides making camps?

Camps are the only way to get survival xp sorry.

Yeah, I found that frustrating,

I'm still very much in that stage of walking around and trying to figure out.. Why am I here.

And I was really excited when I figured out that killing the little critters would give me the hide and bone I needed to make the campsites.

I was all ready to go with my first camp kit and I get, Your too close to the building.

So I moved away

Tried it again. Your too close to the building..

Then I figured it must be a city thing, so I ran out till I saw the "Now leaving " , Alright it will work now right?

Nope , this is a no build zone.. I was like **edit**..

I've yet to build a campsite.

I did read the manual but I skimmed throughthe part about the harvester. I'm going to go back and see if there is something there that might give me a clue.

there is already a thread about this further down, but here we go. You need to travel 1000m from a town to set up a camp. I am still working on verifying if its the town center or from the "you have left <town>" message. I am also trying to verify if there is a chance at deconstruction if you get your camp back. It happened the first time i used my noob kit, but not on any subsequent times. btw, I set up camp only twice and, on deconstruction of the second camp, I attained survivor1. camp xp is easy.

How long did you leave your camps up to get survival 1 with only 2 campsites?

Iv placed at least 4 campsites, chilled long enough to heal, and I only have a couple hundredsurvival points.

While it is true you need to be at least 1000m away from the city limits, i.e. when you see the now leaving "insert city name", I have had no issues setting up camp. Quite the contrary, when grouped with a party of four after a decent battle and letting the camp do the healing (no medics) I've been getting roughly 620 points per camp attempt.

Granted it takes a little while, but the larger bulk points are worth it, as opposed to making camp for myself and just healing.

I've made about 5 camps and I made enough Survival XP to make Int. Survival skills after 3 of them. I got 500 XP from one camp. XP is dependent on how many people use your camp and for how long.

Sometimes if I'm off on my own, running around the bush and hunting, I'll set up camp just to go AFK and take a break. I usually leave it up for at least 15-20min and I always have a good amount of survival skill points gained afterward.

anyone else getting bothered by the "This is not a buildable zone. Please try making camp somewhere else" deal?

I swear there is no place to throw a camp down outside of Kor Vella on Corellia all the way to the river.

No matter how far I am out in the wild and no matter how level the land is, I STILL can't set up a camp due to a no-build zone.

Are you sure Darth? Have you checked on the map for the distance to the nearest city? 1km is a pretty good distance. I was REALLY frustrated until I came out here and read about the 1km (I had built several camps before... but most of the missions I was taking was 1200-1400m from the terminals). I walked a little bit further, and was at about 1km when I started trying, just a few steps, and poof, it went up. We need to rally the scouts out there to petition the devs to put something visible on the map, like an on/off switch for build/nobuild shading, so we can *see* where we can and can't build.

As for XP, it seems to me the caps are 600xp with no training in survival, 620 with survival 1. Once you figure out about how long it takes to make max XP, pay careful attention to how long you keep your camp up... I have novice medic and spent a good while healing a guys wounds, so every so often I broke down camp, and set up a new one. I need to keep better track of exact times, but 2 people at 10 minutes should give you max XP for the campsite. I'm ready to train for Survival II, just don't have the creds yet. Same for Trapping, Exploration, and Hunting I (can't train both Trapping and Exploration until about another 300 scout XP). Right now though, my problem seems to be creds for training rather than XP.

If anyone wants to pool credits to train from an NPC, or swap apprenticing skills, I'm "Lazarus" Long on Intrepid, staying on Corellia in Cornet now.

Skills I have: Novice Medic, Novice Marksman, Intermed. Rifle, Intermed Ranged Weapon Support, Novice Scout, Survival I.

Skills I need to train in: Trapping I, Exploration or Hunting I (the other soon), Survival II, Advanced Rifle (soon).

I am planning Master Scout, Master Squad Leader, Novice Ranger, Novice Rifleman

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Dose anyone have a good stratagy to get survival xp? I make camp after camp but I get exp sooooooo slowly can anyone share what the do to get fast exp in it? Thanks all

If you have other people in your camps you will earn xp faster. For example, camps heal Wounds. If you stay in your camp for 1 round of wound healing (Which is several minutes) you will earn 400 xp. If you had someone in the camp with you also healing, you would have earned twice that, except I believe the initial camps are capped at 600 xp.