Experience zones

[Merrick Travolta]

What does this suggestion change/add/remove:

This change adds subzones that are staff/content set that give modifiers to XP. The intended use for this is to create zones around certain containment chambers to give more XP to the D-class, RSD and gensec, Rewarding them for testing in different locations, My inital idea is that the higher level the SCP in clearance the more rewarding the XP could be, The parameters of what faction, reward amount and other stuff could be set via vjob flags

Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
To my knowledge no.

Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
Encouragement to test outside of areas like LCZ, which lets new players experience more of the map.

D-class aren't submitted to an endless loop of go to 1025, Get credit, Read till death.

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
Development time
May just be abused by people who will begin to sample there more frequently.
Setting the zones themselves could be difficult due to CC's shapes


Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
Currently the way new players seem to get all their research XP is not by experiencing anything outside of inanimate objects, but by testing repeatably on SCP-1025, I think this is damaging to their experience since they don't have to deal with the risks of dealing with another player, nor do they take time to learn things like the HCZ layout, LLCZ layout or just have the chance to experience a different side of roleplay.

 

[Doug 'TrippleD']

Something that could be cool is like an SCP of the week which gives bonus XP for testing in to promote more use of that SCP.

Otherwise, nice suggestion and could be good to promote roleplay.

 

[Tylenol Smith]

99% sure this would be abused, something like this could be good for scp xp tho

 

[Sceptre]

I can see the sentiment; but EXP should not be a motivating factor in Roleplay.

 

[Merrick Travolta]

I can see the sentiment; but EXP should not be a motivating factor in Roleplay.

It shouldn't be, but the sentiment I'm holding is, if people want to level up quickly they'll do the thing most efficient. If you make doing higher level tests more efficients, they will do them.

 

[Sceptre]

It shouldn't be, but the sentiment I'm holding is, if people want to level up quickly they'll do the thing most efficient. If you make doing higher level tests more efficients, they will do them.

That's how negative and poor Roleplay is attracted.

Current method of levelling RSD:
Take D-Class
Spam credit
Go to LCZ Inanimate and make them press E on an SCP which probably kills them
Repeat

Your proposed method:
Take D-Class
Go to high XP area
Spam credit
Throw them in the chamber for them to probably die
Repeat

 

[GameRush_cz]

That's how negative and poor Roleplay is attracted.

Current method of levelling RSD:
Take D-Class
Spam credit
Go to LCZ Inanimate and make them press E on an SCP which probably kills them
Repeat

Your proposed method:
Take D-Class
Go to high XP area
Spam credit
Throw them in the chamber for them to probably die
Repeat

Now that seems like an issue with RSD leveling as a whole.
Honestly having the RSD leveling get reworked entirelly by, for example, having documents graded for high sums of XP or like RSD quests or something, that would fix this issue of needing to do this (to make the grind much faster, since its really unbearable) to get to more SCPs much better. Maybe having like SCP of the week, which rewards more money and XP for documents, eh, idk.