XP rewards for free flying sessions

[bobo]

As the title says, I feel like players should be rewarded with XP for free flying sessions as well as for freestyle or races. Looks like the average is something like +30 XP / minute (based on 100XP per 3 minute race, and +30 XP per 1 minute freestyle session), so why not award ~30XP per minute of freeflying? To avoid rewarding idling and afk farming, enable this only when 'tracking tricks' or whatever the mode name and award XP per x*1000 points. Maybe +35 XP per 10k points in free fly or something like that.
Who's with me?)
Thanks!

[bobo]

I currently have 125+ hours in game, most of it spent in free fly mode. I plan to spend as much time playing, but I also want the cool cosmetic items, which I can't get unless I play races. This sucks, right?)

[bobo]

OR make an 'infinite' freestyle session and award XP per 10k points or something :)

[JuniorDiscart]

Hi bobo

Thanks for your suggestions regarding free flight. We know it's a widely used mode in Liftoff, and we looked at how we could get the reward system in that mode as well. You summed up some the pain points. We're not done yet with updating Liftoff for a long time, so we may eventually propagate the experience system to free flight, but we'll have to figure out a good and fair way on how to do that.

The same goes for content creators, who mainly spend time creating tracks and races, instead of flying them. :)

[LuGus Studios]

That being said, it's really hard to judge and reward players for a mode that basically allows you to do just about anything. Anything goes in freeflight, so there's no such thing as progression, skills, goals and achievements to take into account. Rewarding players makes more sense when there's a clear gameplay system in place and when we have "win conditions" to take into account.

[bobo]

well, you do give 30XP for a 60 second freestyle session, where one can just idle and get the points. So, awarding 30XP per 10k points in freefly session would be even more fair, because the 'win conditions' are much more complex compared to a 60 second idle.

To clarify, I mean that it would be cool to be able to enable the 'always track tricks' option, and then get some points per 10k points, for example. Sounds way better than 60-second freestyle sessions.

I can also confirm I still get XP without even taking off in freestyle sessions, which is definitely not what you wanted to achieve :).

[LuGus Studios]

Thanks for reporting the exploit, we'll definitely take that into account :)