Tonight I discovered a method that allows a merc to farm up WP during a match while contributing nothing to the fight. It works best during skirmish battles, and it can be done with militia gear.

1. Request an LAV near your team's initial spawn point, far away from enemy fire.
2. Crash it into nearby objects until it is on fire.
3. Hop out and use your repair gun on it.
4. Repeat steps 2-4.

This method usually generates 100 pts (around 4 ticks of Repair +25) per iteration. It also allows a merc to gain upwards of 30k SP (unboosted) per battle with a 0/0 KD record. This needs to be fixed somehow, without hurting the already sad rewards for playing as a logi.

Also, while messing around with this, I discovered that repair points are earned much faster fixing a cheap LAV than a heavily armored HAV (which is a much more impressive task). It seems the points are rewarded based on a percentage of repair done rather than actual amount of armor restored. I think this is a problem as well, since it takes about 10 seconds to fix a burning LAV, and it gives the same reward as bringing an HAV back from the brink of destruction, which takes much longer, giving little incentive to fix massive damage.

This may not technically be an exploit, but it is a cowardly way to gain SP for your merc and hurts the efforts of your team. I would like to see some kind of fix for this, but unfortunately I do not have any ideas on how to fix it without punishing those poor logi's actually repping vehicles downrange.

I was using the militia repair tool and the starter fit for the LAV.

Also, friendly fire does not damage the vehicles (at least it didn't for me). I tried swarm launchers, grenades, etc. and just bumping into walls was the only way I could damage the vehicles myself.

I think it should be worth a little more to repair that 250k ISK tank than the militia LAV. =P

Tonight I discovered a method that allows a merc to farm up WP during a match while contributing nothing to the fight. It works best during skirmish battles, and it can be done with militia gear.

1. Request an LAV near your team's initial spawn point, far away from enemy fire.
2. Crash it into nearby objects until it is on fire.
3. Hop out and use your repair gun on it.
4. Repeat steps 2-4.

This method usually generates 100 pts (around 4 ticks of Repair +25) per iteration. It also allows a merc to gain upwards of 30k SP (unboosted) per battle with a 0/0 KD record. This needs to be fixed somehow, without hurting the already sad rewards for playing as a logi.

Also, while messing around with this, I discovered that repair points are earned much faster fixing a cheap LAV than a heavily armored HAV (which is a much more impressive task). It seems the points are rewarded based on a percentage of repair done rather than actual amount of armor restored. I think this is a problem as well, since it takes about 10 seconds to fix a burning LAV, and it gives the same reward as bringing an HAV back from the brink of destruction, which takes much longer, giving little incentive to fix massive damage.

This may not technically be an exploit, but it is a cowardly way to gain SP for your merc and hurts the efforts of your team. I would like to see some kind of fix for this, but unfortunately I do not have any ideas on how to fix it without punishing those poor logi's actually repping vehicles downrange.

Repairs should be awarded by how many points are repaired, not the percentage of points that you have repaired. It takes quite a while to heal a heavy but you get the same amount of WP for repairing a scout.

Exactly. More work for the same reward seems a little broken to me.

But it IS the same on your day to day job in real life.

I know, not helpful but I had to say it.

Personally, I would say NO points for repairing non enemy damage. Learn how to drive, not running into stuff recklessly. However some degree of 'occupational' hazardous duty damage occurs, yes. Fix it. A team player should not expect much for this, as he should be in the thick of things reparing damage caused by the enemy...

Dont you gain ISK for WP not SP?...

i think its a good way to farm isk but no skill points.

Yeah. i've just read up on it a bit more and i'm man enough to hold my hand up when i'm wrong.

I do think the game gives out too much SP though, i'd personally like to see it cut by half at the least, that would make things like this less of an exploit too.

Edit nah forget it its waaaaay to much effort.