XP Bonus for Team Leaders

I suggest that all Team leaders automatically receive a decent XP bonus.

This would help build more teams as more people would be willing to become leaders... I have played for years and often find that people hate the chore of being a leader, but feel that if there were some extra decent benefit for it, more people would be willing to take the job...

If not an XP bonus, perhaps they would earn time towards some cool extra power (similar to what you get when you log off in a "day job" area...).

Thanks!

Perhaps I'm overestimating the evasion of leadership factor or the desire for XP bonuses, or both, but I think bonus XP might skew the effect too much in the other direction. As it is right now, there's a series of badges for leading teams (provided at least one member is lower-level than you), and that's probably all that's going to be seen, for balancing reasons.

XP bonus, no.

Something like a badge, sure.

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Don't think it's neccessary when we have several XP tools in use.

Large teams get a XP bonus
Rested XP for time logged off on a character
XP Curve
Day Job temp power that grants bonus XP when you finish a mission

There is already an incentive for leading a team. It's faster than waiting.

This suggestion might actually make leading a team worse, as a team leader will have to manage the star as well as his team. You will have teammates asking for the star just for the XP, saying things like "I got my friend into this team so I deserve the star for a while" and you have the potential of ending up in some uncomfortable situations.

Here's another example: You're a level 50 leading a team(you don't need xp) and a lowbie asks for the star. You either give him the star and risk him booting people off/going afk, or you refuse to give him the star and end up with a disgruntled teammate.

I don't want to follow someone who doesn't want to lead unless he's getting more exp than the other players. Talk about a surefire way to attract the wrong sort of person to the role!

Wouldn't this have the opposite effect of what the OP suggests? If I was missing out on XP the team leader got, I'd quit the team and form my own. Then people would realize that they weren't getting the XP either, and quit the team I formed to make their own team. Then the people on that team... you get the point.

Basically, you'd have everyone wanting to lead and no one wanting to follow. How would that work for teaming?

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I'm sure dual and triple boxeers would love this option...

Otherwise I put my /jranger on this.

I've never found leading a team to be that big a chore. And the benefits of being the one in charge (getting to choose what mission(s) we do, getting to choose who gets to join, being able to kick people if they're being jerks, etc.) outweigh the minor negatives.

I can already see a huge upswing in jerks that won't take no for an answer spamming invites, and as a result even more players using /hide to avoid the jerks. This will result in making it even harder for teams to form because it will appear that there are fewer and fewer actual people playing the game.

I run into the "can't take no for an answer" jerks 3-4 times a week, while I'm on other teams. After I've refused your invite all bugging me does is get you a quick trip to my ignore list with a 1 star and nasty comment in Notes to never team with you.

And when we are all trying to be leaders, there will be no teams...

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There already is a bonus for leading a team.
There is also an xp bonus at 4 members.
There is another xp bonus for teams at 8 members.

You might not be able to notice the difference, but it's there. Especially if you are leader and running your own missions. It's just not noticable enough to make an obvious difference to the other team members.

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Wow, I didn't expect unanamous agreement, but I also didn't expect an avalanche of "this idea sucks" either, lol.

I appreciate all the points made (for those that made them) and I can see I'm by far in the minority here (in fact I appear to be the entire minority here). All I know is that I've played this game for many years, and have often logged in when it was hard to get a team unless you made one yourself, which while sometimes easy, is also sometimes a pain in the butt... I've also been on plenty of teams where the leader goes and nobody wants the star.

I think you hard core players might, if you stretch, think about the tons of more casual players out there who don't approach the game quite like you might... for example, lots of players could care less about badges... it is a nice part of the game, but not one that all of the community focuses on.

People appreciate the work a good leader does and if one person is carrying the extra load, I say they deserve some kind of extra bonus that everyone would be interested in.

Several people mentioned that as a team grows everyone gets an xp bonus... that is excellent, but it really doesn't address the point of the extra effort a team leader puts in above and beyond what the team members do.

On a side note, several people complained about possible spam... I'm not sure you fix spam by removing any player incentives that might make someone spam people... that just seems backwards.

Some people complained that a leader who only did it for the xp bonus might not be a good leader... sure but then people would leave the team in favor of a better leader... that happens normally now anyway.

Some people said the team members might not think it was fair for someone else to get more than they did... well get used to how the world works... life is not a welfare system... those who make extra efforts deserve extra rewards... if team members want that reward, they can form their own teams... there will still be plenty of people who would like to join.

Currently there are always more people looking for teams than forming them... if it were the other way around, perhaps some of these criticisms would seem more valid, but it just simply isn't the case.

At any rate, before you guys all rain hell down on my head, keep in mind that I've already admitted I seem to be by far the minority opinion in these posts... perhaps because all the many many players this would benefit are also the same type that never bother to post in these formums... the whole thing is by nature biased towards a certain subset of players.

Cheers!

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If the point of the exercise is to foster more teaming than I would suggest that they offer badges for teaming (which they may already do) and that the teaming badges can be combined for an accolade that increases your XP slightly while teamed.


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