I feel that XP should be reenabled on Portal, due to the fact it is an advertised part of the game and progression is a major part of Battlefield 2042, and game modes should have some form of reward system. I would say enable half of the XP(as in half the XP earned from a proper multiplayer match)to hinder a large amount of XP farms from popping up.
That wasnt the only issue. A big issue was that people named a custom server like " Farm XP against bots 128 players HC valparaiso" as example but there werent any bots, they just had 1 x 4 team on one side having weapon loadouts and the rest who joined entered on the opposing team with 1 hp and no loadouts and since people thought it was another type of game mode people just kept joining while the team with loadout was just hammering down people and gaining exp and progression.
I just want to play some maps without vehicle and less people so I don't have to get sniped or ran over with hovercraft constantly.
These have always been BF staples, so if they aren't going to add them back into the "main game" then they should figure out how to make portal servers that count towards progression, like a certain class of rules and minimum players where it counts.
It's not that hard.
I can't believe we're even in this spot now in 2021 having to beg for standard features been around since 2003 or whatever.
The damage has already been done by this point. When I get into a game with a level 18 with 3 tier 1 badges it’s it is easy to immediately assume they boosted somehow. Xp farm or just flat out cheating. I lean toward xp farmer. Why would I want to play against or with them.
The least they can do is open up the solo/co op AoW xp. When the portal thing happened they freaked out and adjusted xp gain all over the board except in MP.
@bgp2332 wrote:The damage has already been done by this point. When I get into a game with a level 18 with 3 tier 1 badges it’s it is easy to immediately assume they boosted somehow. Xp farm or just flat out cheating. I lean toward xp farmer. Why would I want to play against or with them.
The least they can do is open up the solo/co op AoW xp. When the portal thing happened they freaked out and adjusted xp gain all over the board except in MP.
Agreed total panic stations, I would have thought that warnings with reset and perma bans would have been the solution not screwing over HC & Solo/Co-op players, as the warnings/reset/ban seems to work in other Online FPS's.
@Rev0verDrive wrote:The problem is Identifying an event that's considered padding....Without False Positives. You might think that's easy to do but it isn't.
Personally I don't think progression or xp in any regard should be gained/awarded for custom games.
.....and I don't think it's as hard as you think it is.
DICE has all the information they need and whether it's XP caps based on time / amount, instances of rapid progression, etc., etc., there are ways that they can at least flag unusual scenarios for either an automated action and/or review. Perhaps that auto action is shutting off progression at a certain point (capping) and allowing a cool off period. ......or maybe resetting progression gained in a suspicious scenario back to where it was before the player started. For those really obvious offenses, perhaps full resets of progression or a ban.
It wouldn't be difficult to at least set up progression thresholds for a given period of time played that could trigger these caps, warnings, resets, etc.
I would think its pretty easy to flag reviews i.e.
XP Farmer
| Mode | Mins | Experience Gained | Kills | XP per Min | % Playtime | Adjusted Playtime/XP Gained |
| AOW PVP | 600 | 10,000.00 | 200 | 16.67 | 0.722891566 | 23.06 |
| AOW PVE | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | |
| Portal PVP | 200 | 3,500.00 | 70 | 17.50 | 0.240963855 | 72.63 |
| Portal PVE | 30 | 30,000.00 | 600 | 1,000.00 | 0.036144578 | 27,666.67 |
A simple BOT could farm this data from their servers - set a threshold of lets say 1,000 XP Per min/%Playtime the stats won't lie after a certain amount of mins have been clocked.
I don't have my actual stats but something like the below:
| Mode | Mins | Experience Gained | Kills | XP per Min | % Playtime | Adjusted Playtime/XP Gained |
| AOW PVP | 30 | 100.00 | 2 | 3.33 | 0.036144578 | 92.22 |
| AOW PVE | 500 | 15,000.00 | 300 | 30.00 | 0.602409639 | 49.80 |
| Portal PVP | 30 | 150.00 | 3 | 5.00 | 0.036144578 | 138.33 |
| Portal PVE | 100 | 3,500.00 | 70 | 35.00 | 0.120481928 | 290.50 |
The base AOW Co-op mode should also get back it's kill credit to boot.
I really do not understand how one of the primary modes that is listed beside the basic AOW mode only provides a trickle of XP and thats it, there is no reason to play basic Co-op currently over a private portal game as you frankly get the same results.
Same could be said about portal to this extent, why play anything bar the 3 pre-made portal modes if you cant progress otherwise? There is also the allure of proper custom games, but as of now there are very few new and interesting developments present on the portal, most are just basic 128 player games that you can already get in AOW. The only development that recently piqued my interest in portal as of late was a unique 128 player canals TDM match with rotating game eras, eg 2042 -> BF3 ->BC2->1942. But aside from that there just ain't much sadly due to the lack of player interest both due to the xp farming servers curbing players opening new servers in the past and the subsequent reward nuking.
I really hope dice does re-enable rewards in both modes before the proper release, otherwise I fear that a large portion of incoming players will be offput by the lack of any good rewards in both modes.
