The medal cap is starting to piss me off.

[Cow Obliterated by Train]

Opened the game to two orders completed. First order, handful of medals. Second order, 0. So I lose out on a ♥♥♥♥ ton of medals just because I'm at 250? The devs let XP carry over when they upped the level cap to 150, but even if I go and right away spend the extra medals in order to make room for the new ones, I don't get them back?

I guess they don't want us blasting through the new packs too fast, but there's gotta be a different solution than just giving me a middle finger. Maybe if an order is completed it can allow the medals to go over the limit since the player has no individual control of when those medals come in and cannot properly prepare for it, but still prevent you from earning any more over 250 from gameplay.

Kinda takes away from the whole working together aspect, when my reward for doing so well that I've run out of things to buy is to get absolutely nothing, compared to players who don't have maxed medals.

[Paps()]

Originally posted by Buntkreuz:

Originally posted by MoarAsianThanU:

Wrong. EXP did carry over. When the level cap increased, I was instantly lvl 57. You just didn't play enough.

I played over 80 missions after lvl 50. I was lvl 53 when the patch dropped.
I got 4 levels doing only 15 missions after the patch.
So i should be around 80 at the very least.
Try again. Have even more playtime than you.

Were all 80 of your missions on Helldive? I pretty much exclusively play on Helldive and the 250% exp bonus is what helps most, not the number of missions. And I think I was either late 60s or early level 70s after the cap was raised.

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Originally posted by Buntkreuz:

Originally posted by MoarAsianThanU:

Wrong. EXP did carry over. When the level cap increased, I was instantly lvl 57. You just didn't play enough.

I played over 80 missions after lvl 50. I was lvl 53 when the patch dropped.
I got 4 levels doing only 15 missions after the patch.
So i should be around 80 at the very least.
Try again. Have even more playtime than you.

Lol, skill issue.

[Paps()]

Originally posted by Mini:

It’s an intentional choice. If there was no limit then you would finish every new warbond the day it came out which leads to less playtime.

Medals are not hard to grind out through general play, there’s no reason to complain.

Wrong.
If there was no cap people would play limitlessly. I am stopping the game because there it feels like now there is nothing to earn. I will come back for the warbond. Finish it, then be out of action until the next. Ergo, if there was no cap I’d keep playing between warbonds.

[Mini]

Originally posted by Paps():

Originally posted by Mini:

It’s an intentional choice. If there was no limit then you would finish every new warbond the day it came out which leads to less playtime.

Medals are not hard to grind out through general play, there’s no reason to complain.

Wrong.
If there was no cap people would play limitlessly. I am stopping the game because there it feels like now there is nothing to earn. I will come back for the warbond. Finish it, then be out of action until the next. Ergo, if there was no cap I’d keep playing between warbonds.

So you’re saying having an infinitely increasing number would motivate you more? Why not just play for the sake of playing?

I agree that the resource caps are a unique choice, but it’s clearly an intentional limit on grinding by the developers. I don’t think it’s too problematic with how easy resource grinding is.

Different things motivate different people. I just play for fun, the resources don’t really mean all that much.

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by Paps():

Originally posted by Buntkreuz:

I played over 80 missions after lvl 50. I was lvl 53 when the patch dropped.
I got 4 levels doing only 15 missions after the patch.
So i should be around 80 at the very least.
Try again. Have even more playtime than you.

Were all 80 of your missions on Helldive? I pretty much exclusively play on Helldive and the 250% exp bonus is what helps most, not the number of missions. And I think I was either late 60s or early level 70s after the cap was raised.

7,8 and 9. Mostly 8, maybe 60%, 7 only rarely, maybe 10% of the missions i play. Rest was on 9.

So i dont see the argument.
It didnt matter. Even on Hard i would gather enough XP with only 40 misisons to reach lvl 60.
And as said, i have higher playtime than the ones saying it tracked. Typically do all objectives too, not 100% of the bases though.
But again, that wouldnt matter. I think we know the XP you get is enough.
For diff. 7-9 you get a level about every 4-5 missions?

Well, doesnt matter, its just a number.
What counts is how many you kill.

[Paps()]

Originally posted by Mini:

Originally posted by Paps():

Wrong.
If there was no cap people would play limitlessly. I am stopping the game because there it feels like now there is nothing to earn. I will come back for the warbond. Finish it, then be out of action until the next. Ergo, if there was no cap I’d keep playing between warbonds.

So you’re saying having an infinitely increasing number would motivate you more? Why not just play for the sake of playing?

I agree that the resource caps are a unique choice, but it’s clearly an intentional limit on grinding by the developers. I don’t think it’s too problematic with how easy resource grinding is.

Different things motivate different people. I just play for fun, the resources don’t really mean all that much.

Exp was also an intentional decision to have capped at 50. It was also a mistake. The issue is that the caps are far too low. 250 wouldn't even scratch page 10 of the initial warbond.

Think about it this way. If I have already earned over 3500 medals in the month and a half since the game released, and I have all samples capped, am already 25 levels over the original level cap and have played the game to death, the only thing left to motivate me, and to maintain interest in your live service is to repeat what I have already done, yes?
Well to further motivate and incentivise me, reward me for my time with medals which my little, smoothbrain can dream of one day spending. Let me be a good little saver banking my efforts.

[lilgirlcharlotte]

Originally posted by KIRIKU:

I think they save those medals.
Today I had the same problem, but I log in recently and got 85 medals (two major ordens packs of 45 each)

everyone got those 85 medals regardless. i was far from the cap and got them aswell :-)

[Locher]

you are bound to reach the maximum of all resources when you play more than 2hours a day. Be it credits, medals or samples. EXP carries over because a level has no practical use other than e-peen.

[Tavric]

I unexpectedly encountered the same problem, yesterday I reached 250 medals and left the game without even knowing that this is an accumulated maximum, and today when I entered the game they gave 0 as a reward for orders, then they would have made it possible to receive it not immediately, something like a letter with a reward, but they would set a restriction on the storage of such letters so that they could not be hoarded, but this would turn out to be quite offensive

[Paps()]

Originally posted by Buntkreuz:

Originally posted by Paps():

Were all 80 of your missions on Helldive? I pretty much exclusively play on Helldive and the 250% exp bonus is what helps most, not the number of missions. And I think I was either late 60s or early level 70s after the cap was raised.

7,8 and 9. Mostly 8, maybe 60%, 7 only rarely, maybe 10% of the missions i play. Rest was on 9.

So i dont see the argument.
It didnt matter. Even on Hard i would gather enough XP with only 40 misisons to reach lvl 60.
And as said, i have higher playtime than the ones saying it tracked. Typically do all objectives too, not 100% of the bases though.
But again, that wouldnt matter. I think we know the XP you get is enough.
For diff. 7-9 you get a level about every 4-5 missions?

Well, doesnt matter, its just a number.
What counts is how many you kill.

So before the cap, this was the kind of mission and level of exp I was getting each time, (I remember I got a new controller at the time and wondered what this new middle button did - turns out it took a screenshot) I just found it and uploaded it for you.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3214035083

[Chaos Marine]

Originally posted by Buntkreuz:

Xp didnt carry over. Just saying. Misconception.

Yes it does. I went from level 50 to level 82 after the level update released.

[Stacker Camper]

noob question: Do you have to have actually done any mission to get the main order medals? Are players playing the bug planets still getting the recent main order medals based on the bot planets?

[Mini]

Originally posted by Chaos Marine:

Originally posted by Buntkreuz:

Xp didnt carry over. Just saying. Misconception.

Yes it does. I went from level 50 to level 82 after the level update released.

I second this, I flew up to 94 post update.

[Exolden]

Originally posted by Mini:

It’s an intentional choice. If there was no limit then you would finish every new warbond the day it came out which leads to less playtime.

Medals are not hard to grind out through general play, there’s no reason to complain.

Yeah ive always found that a really dumb argument for any grind heavy system. Unless your a crazy person that makes a single game their personality.

[IICEE]

Originally posted by Buntkreuz:

Originally posted by MoarAsianThanU:

Wrong. EXP did carry over. When the level cap increased, I was instantly lvl 57. You just didn't play enough.

I played over 80 missions after lvl 50. I was lvl 53 when the patch dropped.
I got 4 levels doing only 15 missions after the patch.
So i should be around 80 at the very least.
Try again. Have even more playtime than you.

After the patch my level jump to 112 so yeah it did carry over, you probably don't play as much past 50 as you think you did.