Squad Leader Archive

Ok, now that I have your attention (that is what this post is about, I just said it in a RP way).

I have some questions, I will outline them simply:

1. Humans get "Leadership" as one of their perks, what is this? What exactly does it do?


2. Survival XP has to be one of the hardest xp's in the game to get, do any of you have any tips. I know how you get it but are there any specific actions in the camp that will maximize your xp or any specific tactics you can use to get more.


3. Ranged Combat Support is yet another extremely hard xp to get, and I know you get it from killing things, but are there any specific things I can kill to get more? Are there any specific WAYS I kill things to get more? Are there any tactics I can use to get up this tree faster?

Those are my only questions, obviously you can tell I'm going for Squad Leader. Thanks ahead of time for answering me!

I got Novice Squad Leader in 9 days on Naritus, which wasn't bad considering I work full time and I had company for 5 days after launch weekend.

The keys:

• Get to Corellia


• Hunt (solo) all the Crazed Durnis and Tabages you can, until you move up above Marksman, these give great XP and are zero risk since they run so slow.


• Harvest them, Scout XP is the easiest XP to get in the game, in my opinion (You get XP for looting, how awesome is that!)


• So Exploration IV is no problem


• The Combat XP for Ranged Specialist (and the 7500 for Novice SL) is no small amount, but there is no way to boost it, Combat XP = 10% of your Weapons XP (well there's an exploit with grenades, but its really not worth the time or hassle) Just pound those durnis and tabages!!


• Survival XP: This is no problem if you are diligent.




• First of all: Any time you are near your computer (ie, in your home), but not actively playing SWG: sit in a camp. When you wake up in the morning, put down a camp, when you take a shower, put down a camp, when you're going to eat a meal, put down a camp, when you're going to the store, put down a camp.


• Disband camps after 6, 12, or 18 minutes. I have found that Survival XP (and wound healing ticks from the camps) come in 6 minute intervals, and breaking camps at 6.5 minutesor 12.5 minutes gave far more XP than breaking them at 5 minutes or 10 minutes. Your mileage may vary.


• Do things in your camps when you can: dance, forage, heal wounds, craft another camp, etc. This seems to help a good bit.


• The big one: Find an artisan friend who goes out sampling for resources and put a camp under him while he does it. Dance or play music to keep his Mind pool high, and use /tenddamage to keep his Action pool high. He will be able to sample indefinitely. Every 12 minutes disband the camp, you should be able to get 600 to 800 XP per camp this way.


• You can do this, but I didn't need to: get hunting groups and force them to sit in camps from time to time, start a rotation, a camp order, and make sure everyone gets a chance. Any other idea I heard was getting 20 fellow scouts, have everyone go out in the wilderness, everyone make a camp in a giant circle of camps, then all the scouts run around the circle running through everyone's camps, thus generating big Visitor numbers. You can try these, but I didn't find that necessary.


• Then its just a matter of the 5000 credits for Novice Squad Leader!

I hope that helps you understand, thats the method I used, and I was first to Survival IV on Naritus by a few days.

Easiest way I found was make alot of them and have people heal/dance there alot.

Yup its easy to get Survival xp if you Camp have a dancer dance for 5 minutes take the camp down and put up another rinse and repeat. Also when you hit Survival III have someone make you Improved Camps to use. They give 1000 xp and with the dancer your looking at 20,000 survival xp within an hour.

Best way to get survival. I concur with finding an artisan and following them out. I found that if you have 2 or more people in the camp and you and others are active you get max XP at around 10 minutes. Also what REALLY helps is that you take up all the basic professions. You should at the very least be a scout, marksman, medic, entertainer and artisan. All these things help in gaining survival skill and increase your independance until you have to surrender those skill points for your chosen profession. Being able to dance, heal, survey at your own camps 1. Makes it where you dont have to rely on others to do that job and 2. Gives appeal for others to come. Basic camps seem to yield a max of 800 survival XP (Field Base was 1250 before I gave up ranger so figure the other camps inbetween there for max XP) and you can calculate how many camps you'll need.

The base formula for camps is 26 2/3 xp *mins in camp*number of people in camp = total xp(maxed out at cmap max). The dancing, healing, etc modifies the time but I do not know the factors yes. So a basic camp with no activity will take you 22.5 mins and a multi camp will take 29.5 mins.

Thanks for the hints guys! This will help a lot!

-Derek

Sunrunner

Yup if its just you and a dancer or musician have them play for 5 minutes and you get max survival xp. Don't have to heal wounds or anything else.