I believe that if you gained XP (in CO maps obviously) for welding Teammates, Armory, and even Weld Points, it would encourage a lot of things...

1) More Team Play (which CO is really lacking in)
2) Improved Usage of Welder (Pretty much only reason for welder is for CC)
3) Encouraged Usage of Welder (More people will be using the welder)
4) New Strategies (HA will come into play more, which requires more team play than JPs)
5) Armor Lasting (Armor usually isn't around after the first attack)
And there are so many other reasons...

If implemented they should set have it set like this:

For Welding Teammates you receive 50% more XP than CC currently gives.

- Better than nothing, currently its just a convenient commodity to the player who gets welded, but no visible gain to the welder his/herself

For Welding Armory you receive 50% less XP than CC currently gives.

- Again, Better than nothing, currently the only reason for Welding Armory is... well if you like having everything at 100% Health

For welding the Weld Points you receive 75% less XP than CC currently gives.

- Every little bit counts right???

I don’t really see any flaws to this addition, but let me know what you think.

Well if you have anything you think I missed that would add to this, or any questions go for it. Also its good to be back, haven't posted on here since the forums went down.

Edit: Sorry about font I like comic sans, but I can see its hard to read... Owell

As a general rule, I don't read anything written in Comic Sans. But this is one suggestion I could support - HA are pretty useless compared to JPs in combat, simply because almost nobody welds.

FF might turn out to be a problem, but maybe adding a xp penalty for team wounding does the trick.

I'd like to see ns-like behavior encouraged more. Parasiting, welding, healing, umbra and maybe even spore might give out some xp. Generally remove the direct need for fragging and reward things that public ns could use more.

You can already FF the CC and noone bothers with that, there's simply no time. No worries.

I like this idea!

i like it

agreed

Don't forget the .

Yeah, gorgies should be encouraged to heal, too.
And when we are on this anyway.
Give the lerk a little xp for the amount of hp it safed with its umbra cloud (own hp excluded).

Great idea!

vote yes

Can we do this for gorges too?

Thanks for you support, and yes if this were to be implemented it should also work the same way with gorges.

I remember when I first started posting here their was so much more activity. I guess people are more involved with their own NS community now, rather than the games overall community.

the idea is good but still combat is just rampage.

i agreed with welding gaining XP .