Base Defense: XP gift that keeps giving?

[Lampros]

I got one in April, and I thought I was dead. But this seems super easy, and I am just collecting kills nonstop. Am I going to lose anything by not lifting off and just farming XP here until every member of the crew is leveled? For instance, do I lose days if I stay here too long?

[Fringehunter7719]

Nope, you can take the XP boost.

There's a second benefit to an early defence mission as well, some of your supply raids will be UFO raids instead after the base defence, which means more juicy hacking objective rewards.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Fringehunter7719:

Nope, you can take the XP boost.

There's a second benefit to an early defence mission as well, some of your supply raids will be UFO raids instead after the base defence, which means more juicy hacking objective rewards.

Ah, I have tried to prioritize doing anti-UFO raid missions, but I guess I should not any more then! ;)

[Fringehunter7719]

Well, it can prove tough, it depends on initial pod placement and the exact date it occurs. If you pull it off it can be a huge boost, it's basically make or break.

There's also some odd interaction with being able to heal people who enter wounded and curtail the rest of their wound timers.

[macelharen]

Remember your promotions are capped. Might want to get an uncapper mod

[David]

They only seem to be capped to 1 promotion / mission, I farmed Last Gift and my soldiers got promoted after every battle.

+1 to getting ufo raids after defense mission, I had berserker queen and archon king hiding at the back inside of a ufo -.-

[red255]

Never really needed the XP. game gives you full ranked soldiers readily enough.

Cap in XCOM:EW was 1 XP less than the next rank after you level up.

I.E if it takes 100 to squaddie and 250 to corporal, a rookie can level up at most to 249 XP.

which means they'll level up once this mission and once the next mission.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by macelharen:

Remember your promotions are capped. Might want to get an uncapper mod

Yup. I got the mod that lets me level multiple times in a map.

[rubyismycat]

by the time this stupid mission pops up i probably have 30 soldiers at max rank anyway i still have no idea why i even bother building the totally unnecessary defence center