The outcry about boosting is a Red Herring

Am I proving your point? Sure, but that's because we partially agree with each other and partially disagree. Where we disagree is that you're arguing that people should boost to create an equal playing field as opposed to just legitimately playing the game. That invalidates the reason for there to be a progression system.

Practically speaking, not everyone is going boost. Yet that's exactly what exacerbates the potential gap between players. Players may not progress at the same pace due to time constraints, but that's still a much smaller gap than having a player with few unlocks play against a boosted player who has everything unlocked. Especially if you consider how the progression was much slower in the first few weeks than it is now.

I have never been against players getting full XP in bot lobbies, custom maps, or even custom modes if the XP is somewhat relative to what can be earned in other modes. Just like how the BR is more XP/h than the MP I choose not to play it because I don't enjoy it. The same can be said if someone decides to play against bots I don't really have a problem with increased XP rates within reason and will choose not to play it just like the BR because it's not fun to me.

What is unacceptable is the clear exploits that are granting 100,000+ XP every few minutes. These kinds of farms should not be acceptable in any way shape or form because despite what you think weapon attachments do have a significant impact on gameplay in multiplayer.

Since you are using for your example my speciality I'll take the snipers for example and I'm cursing myself for revealing it but I will. The 6x Thermal and Anti Glare Coating unlocked at 40 (at least on the scout I can't remember for the others) is a literal game changer. It has a significant impact on gameplay to the point where I was going 30+/0 vs 20+/5 in breakthrough on Attackers. You claiming the ADS time lowers the appeal and balances it out is just pure and utter excuses.

 It is not as apparent on other guns but it does show up with increased mag size on smaller capacity SMGs, etc. So saying it has no impact is extremely disenguous.

On top of that it's just purely and utterly demoralizing to a lot of people who do take pride in increasing their overall rank or the rank of a weapon. Someone being able to get a rank 500 scout in 30 hours of exploiting vs the 200-300 it would take me to do it normally ruins every aspect of the longevity and enjoyment I was going to get out of playing this game long term.

The problem you are having is that guns take far too long to level and I do not in the slightest disagree with you 1-50 should be significantly faster, but from what your last few sentences suggest is you feel you should be entitled to the same stuff as someone who put in more hours which is just flat out false. 

You do not deserve the same amount of unlocks as someone who plays longer, do they need to be lowered a tad absolutely, but by no means should you be able to bypass the time investment with a bot lobby. 

TLDR: Normal Bot Lobby's fine with rates relative to other content. Exploit XP Lobby's are not fine remotely full stop. You aren't entitled to everything you want.

I agree 100%. I was pretty on the fence about boosting before. But giving it to us then taking it away has only served to destroy what was truly unique about this game. 

I've tried to hop into a hardcore server and I just end up sitting in a lobby for 20 minutes because we are waiting on 20 people to play... 

It only gives you an advantage over those who do not have that equipment yet. It doesn't give you any advantage over those who do have it. And if all can boost to get it... then it is an equal playing field. If only those who are good or have time can get them... unequal.  In short - you are proving my point. 

Regarding the skins - I see your point there and wouldn't mind them creatively blocking off those more cosmetic things from being earned through portal at all. That actually makes a lot of sense. Let us unlock weapon attachments and core gameplay items any way we want... and save the harder non-boostable challanges for the cosmetics. 

I didn't think about the server side. I see how that would be an issue. But I think there is a better solution than what they have come up with. So they can keep the promise they made while also limiting the farming lobbies. 

I didn't say it didn't give you better equipment. In fact, I said it did give you those unlocks. What I said is that it didn't make you dominate. You still have to be good. 

I am rank 140-something and don't have a thermal scope for any gun yet.  I haven't yet found a gun that is perfect enough in every scenario, game mode, or situation that the game causes me to grind in, to use that gun enough to get those OP attachments.  But are those attachments really that OP and do they make enough of a difference? I don't know.

I guess I am on the fence about if boosting is unfair or whatever. I just don't care. Just make everyone have the same options and apply policy uniformly to everyone and every server, and it just won't matter any more. But that's the opposite of what EA has done.  They have applied policy based on date, have not revoked what they have approved earlier, and have completely destroyed portal.

getting those unlocks DOESN'T translate into you dominating in MP.

You may be talking about it being a red herring, but I'll say that your position is somewhat of a straw man. I think a more reasonable position is to mention that it gives you a decisive advantage. So even if you don't dominate, you'd still play better than if you didn't have those attachments. It's a simple fact that many of the most powerful attachments like thermal sights, suppressors, or grips without ADS accuracy penalties are often locked until you reach a higher level. I don't think that really matters as much at this point though, because people have had time to get their unlocks by now, but it certainly did matter in the first few weeks after the game came out. 

Then there's another issue related to what I'd call "prestige" challenges. It's the challenges that are really difficult, where you unlock some kind of skin that you can use to show off to other players. Regardless of whether you personally care about that sort of thing, there are certainly people that do. Having those challenges be accessible by defeating bots, devalues that aspect of the challenge. 

Couldn't have said it better.

I haven't played BF6 since they destroyed the portal and I refuse to come back until its reverted back. 

As soon as I seen the trailer of BF6 and how the portal was supposed to be.. Create your own experiences and progress play how you want. I pre-ordered right after that. Even put a positive comment.

They made me out to be a liar on that comment after they baited and switched us. Ill stand my ground. I won't load BF6 again until they give us what was promised.

I was under the impression I was able to create my own experiences play them with family and friends only. I dont like the toxicity of multi-player or those undetectable cheats they use in multi-player. I dont believe that 98% of games are cheater free. 

Apparently not. 

Having a fps game that your shots dont register all the time is a game breaker for me. I like to use DMRs and putting 4 shots into someone then them turn and lazer me with a smg is bs.

The game is so broken. I can wait til its fixed usually its 2 to 4 years for them to get things right anyway.

Ill just play Arc Raiders. 

PS...The static option for bots is what created this whole farming bot problem. <removed>

[CM - Edited rude remark]

I have 2 boosting outcries, and they are related to EA's actions.

1. EA STILL has not revoked approval of those farms. Those farms still get full XP, mastery, unlocks, and are 1-person start. What EA has done is make every other server, which are almost always more legitimate (how could you make anything "worse"?!?) and almost always an actual game that has a purpose, not attractive to anyone; because the newer servers, which took more time and effort to make, and are usually not farms, have no XP or are much harder to 'start' (populate due to min player requirements). EA has done the exact opposite of promoting the experiences it pretends to promote.
2. Because EA has effectively encouraged people to use portal for no reason other than boosting, it also ends up making portal's performance suck. Why? Because those boosting servers are terrible for network load. They waste an entire server of 64 slots on only one actual human player. Since each human has their own server with no other humans in it, every human who boosts will waste a TON of resources.  If you made legitimate experiences more attractive, maybe people would get almost as much XP or whatever they are after in legitimate experiences that have at least one other human in them. They might sacrifice a little boosting for a game that is actually enjoyable to play.  But since item #1 makes that impossible, item #2 is a major problem for every other community server.