[ArcChas]

The original intention of xp was create a portion of score which could not be lost. This was supposedly to protect "casual players" from being farmed back to almost zero.

One secondary (desirable) consequence was to encourage players to stop attacking the very small planets for easy (but now less xp valuable) roids.

However, as with all changes, there was an unintended consequence - in this case that it became possible to get massive (unlimited) xp gains by various methods - most of which involved keeping ones value artificially low.

A small (but growing) minority of players now think that this is a "good" way to play - without considering the effect it has on the "ordinary" players who make an effort for seven weeks only to see latestarters (and others) sail past them with a handful of easy (or escorted) lands.

(Obviously this "fault" has been exascerbated this round by the ridiculous stats which allow so many undefendable landings - and by the "unspoken agreement" of the top xp players to not build any ships with which to defend against each other ).