I don’t think I got an XP Ban simply because the message that popped up said I had reached an XP limit for the day or something (even though I’m sure I didn’t earn 50k XP in the first place.)However, what I don’t understand is how that popped up when it did cus I had only been playing for a few hours, and only 9 of the games were double XP. What burns my backside though is that I kept playing just for fun after, and ended up completing a couple major challenges, and challenge XP also got blocked. Which means I got boned out of over 10k XP from challenges that I can’t simply redo. (exterminate exterminate, one two three four, and possibly a couple others.) I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be the case or what, but if it is I think it’s a pretty poor system.
<mark>Challenges and commendations, due to being time limited in nature, should not count towards XP limit, nor be blocked by it, due to the one time completion aspect.I honestly think that they (challenges and commendation XP rewards) should be split from normal XP caps so that players do not get denied the rewards of their labor when putting in the effort to complete them.</mark> I think a daily XP cap is silly period, but being denied challenge and commendation XP due to hitting the daily matchmaking “limit” is just plain lame. Even setting it up to carry the XP from completed challenges and commendations into the next day would be an acceptable compromise in my opinion, but getting 0 XP from completion is terrible.
Much agreed…they just rolledback my 117 wins challenge (the 17343 exp one)… Made me from 48 to 47…and the best part…the challenge is complete and I can’t ever get that jackpot exp again.
Tomorrow gonna spam the -Yoink- outta spartan ops to 50…
They should let the challenges and commendations carry over the next day/ cap period.
Woah really? That’s pretty lame. An XP cap is cool in the case that it’s designed to only affect people that boost excessively, but losing out on commendations and challenges is just dumb. Especially since if what you’re saying is true, you did nothing to exploit the system.
And is it really only 50k? That seems kinda low in general, considering even the forge games I were doing today were giving almost 1k.
> Much agreed…they just rolledback my 117 wins challenge (the 17343 exp one)… Made me from 48 to 47…and the best part…the challenge is complete and I can’t ever get that jackpot exp again.
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> Tomorrow gonna spam the Yoink! outta spartan ops to 50…
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> They should let the challenges and commendations carry over the next day/ cap period.
Yes, it also applies to Spartan Ops. I tried after it said online xp limit reached and got 0 xp (someone messaged me in a game and said 50k was cap, other people i hear say 75k, I had only been playing for maybe 4 hours past midnight EST with only 9 of the games being double XP.)
> > Much agreed…they just rolledback my 117 wins challenge (the 17343 exp one)… Made me from 48 to 47…and the best part…the challenge is complete and I can’t ever get that jackpot exp again.
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> > Tomorrow gonna spam the Yoink! outta spartan ops to 50…
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> > They should let the challenges and commendations carry over the next day/ cap period.
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> doesnt the cap apply to spops too?
Yeah, apparently I’m the 15% on the east coast that gets uncapped at 5am and not 12 am EST
> While I agree that an XP cap is kinda lame, it doesn’t say anywhere “excluding challenge experience” so you should have guessed it wouldn’t give it to you.
Trolls gonna troll…
It has never added in challenge or commendation XP into the total XP earned numbers it shows after a game. The pop-up was actually pretty small and difficult to read in the first place, and it only said “online XP limit reached.” Commendations and challenges can also be completed in solo campaign, which is not matchmaking. Because of this, it is not far-fetched for one to assume that challenge and commendation XP (because they don’t just come from matchmaking) would still be added.
They do the daily XP cap for a reason. It is to keep people from boosting. There have already been a few people that got a temp ban for boosting and the game hadnt even been out for 2 days when they posted.
People who want to cheat badly enough will always find a way around the limits placed on legitimate players. I’ve already heard of there being exploits to go around the cap, which is something boosters will use and legitimate players will not, so in the end it’s hurting us legit players more than it does any cheater. Also, for the most part all boosting is going to do is get people a different aesthetic sooner, whoopty-friggin-do. Not everyone has the free time to hit xp cap every single day, and when we sit down to play for a day when we have a day off, the game basically tells us to bugger off after a few hours, which holds those of us that have jobs/go to college back even more. I have hit the cap on every one of my days off, fairly easily, even without using double XP tokens. At the very least, I believe it should be doubled from what it is, to provide more than 2-4 hours of value play, and changed so that challenges and commendations still credit you the exp for completion, instead of blocking them. That way, you don’t get completely boned if you keep playing “for fun” after you cap, and then complete major challenges on accident. Especially because if you just stop playing with them at about 99% you can get easy XP the next day. The problem with that though is that also gives you fewer matches to earn XP the next day. Essentially, challenges and commendations are reducing the number of games you can play while earning XP because they count towards the XP cap, and once capped, you get no credit for them either, thus rendering them pretty much useless in one way or another. Either they cap you faster, or you get no credit for them after putting in the effort to complete them. Because of this, it is a very poor system, and it needs adjustment sooner rather than later. I know there are many other people out there even more upset about it than I am, and have seen numerous other threads regarding it.
I also find it funny that Xbox Live Ambassadors and their higher-ups claim there is no XP cap in any xbox live game, even though administrators have posted right here in the forums that there is, yet they refuse to believe me and call me a liar.
Which they likely consider a form of cheating/boosting/manipulation, and they can also likely track it just by how much exp/ranks you earn in the day. If the system catches on, the banhammer may pay a visit. Just because there is a workaround does not make it acceptable or consequence free. The system itself is flawed and needs to be addressed. Not only is the limit far from being what it should be, assuming they feel it absolutely necessary in the first place, it is also blocking challenge and commendation XP, which it should not because that defeats the purpose of them in the first place. These are the reasons why people are so upset about the XP cap. They want to be able to play legit without being denied the rewards of their labor.
I used to be one of the people who thought the xp limit was just to stop boosters and wouldn’t affect you if you were not earning CRAZY amounts of experience. but i just reached the cap by adding 2 hours playtime, my total playtime since release is under 6 hrs. this is insane. Microsoft’s “Xbox rewards” bonus for the game rewards people for having above 35, 70, and 140hrs by the end of the month! that means that you would have to pass the xp cap every day for the entire month to get the middle or top awards. I don’t want to lose future xp by earning commendations by accident so I will have to stop playing til tomorrow and it is 9:45am where I am at. having the cap this low and outright refusing to admit its a problem is encouraging people to STOP PLAYING! It was a bad business decision before and an even worse one now that the competition is out!
thats true this limit is just a joke really i took days off from work becauz i love halo and wantedt to achieve as much as i can in those days. but now this frekin limit ruins the whole gameplay. took days off for nothin…
PS: after completeing teh campaign on legendary in 4:30 mins theres only MP for me.
Pls get this limit off i understand its to stop ppl boosting but why should other ppl also be affected by that. thats just redicioulus…not even in teh mood for go on playing Halo4 Mp every 4 hours limit stop and i have to wait ANOTHER 6 hours go get XP again…