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Originally Posted by Forjat
Thanks for the input everyone  it has helped a lot.
My comment earlier about it not being worth the PED (m4a) was that I was getting the same (less AIM/Marksmanship) more Rifle skills with a M3a that I have already maxed, so my thinking is that I am going to utilize the M3a until the skills are so slow and then I will switch up for skilling --- |
I have nothing but personal experience to back it up but I really think there are a variety of "unseen" factors that affect the amount of skill gains we get. I primarily skill HG but have 4k rifle; a couple of weeks ago my then-disciple and I had a hunt, both using Riker UL1s. In the same time period I got 4-5 times more rifle skill points than she did, despite the fact my rifle skill was essentially twice hers and despite the fact we were using the same gun - a gun we'd both long-since maxed.
Having said that it does also "feel" like if you use a weapon that is maxed much lower than your pro-standing you progress slower than if you use something nearer to your pro-standing. If I used my P5A (maxed at level 21) on a decent-length hunt and then used an HL11 (maxed at level 34) for a hunt of the same length I would expect (and get) more skills from the latter gun. Conventional logic would surely suggest that if you have two people with identical setups the lower-skilled player would gain more skills on a fixed-length hunt because as we all know skill-gains slow as you get more of them.
Skill-gains are like Transformers, there's more to them than meets the eye
