Only registered users may post messages Want to register ? Topic  Re(2):Re(10):June in the month of February by Baines 12:08   Wed 24 Jul Forum   Your UserName: Baines Your Password:   *required - forgot your password ? Message Title: Your message: Icon selection: posticon BakedSquid 16mac1 BoiledEgg Before CutletDinner CandyBowl Clip Clipboard DC_Vm4 DC DishSoap2 Fc01 DC_b2 Dice1 Eggplant Disk_1 Disksys DuntPan Edamame KitchenKnife Fami_2 Fan1 Fc_FBasic Fc_PG Fc_cart1 Fc_cart5 GBP_silver Gameboy Garbege Gba2 Logo_NeoCD Linux Logo_Nintendo64 Logo_NeoGeo MailBox3 Logo_PS MailBox PaperBag MisoSoup OpenBox PCE Pad_DC2 Pad_PS Pad_Pce Pad_Sfc Pad_fc1 cocktail1 PetitTomato Pin-white Pockepika Pretzel SauceLadle Scale2 SegaSat SodaBar SoftCream ShavedIce-Strawberry StrappedBox Take-out Ws_3 alert angry apple arrow art attention beer biggrin book burger candy carrot cars chart chick chick1 chick2 chick3 chicken construction cocktail2 coffee digdug cpu download dosei duck dq1 dq2 dq3 icq-offline mp3 e3 egg face ff-cursor file film floppy fries frown gesselaf goemon1 goemon2 goemon3 happa health humor icecream icq-away icq-dnd icq-free icq-invisible icq-na icq-occupied oba-q pad icq-online icq-seek idea jojo_do jojo_go keylock library mahjong mario meat melon microphone mmcafe monitor multimedia music netscape1 netscape2 netscape3 netscape4 newspaper newswire questionmark opaopa pig pointer posticon pow powerbox pudding question redface sad science search smile smile2 smile3 smile4 sports strawberry sunrise theweb thumbdown thumbup travel upa_milk upa_pig yellowpages or view all icons here. [QUOTE] On topic of the extra-battles that give XP: the problem with these, compared to the battles that give FM directly, is that they offer diminishing returns the higher levels your characters are. 2 battles were enough to have my Blanka reach level 25, which made him my second highest character after less than a week of play. I suppose that past a certain point (before level 30?), even winning the battle will cost you more FM than you'd get.[/QUOTE] I used Rashid for all three attempts. He was level 14 at the start. First attempt gave him 7000FM (Level 21), second was 4000FM (Level 25), and third was 3000FM (Level 28). Diminishing returns kick in fairly fast. The last point where you are guaranteed to gain a single level (and thus 1000FM) from 20000XP is a bit higher than you expected, it is actually (according to a chart I found) Level 38. It takes exactly 20000xp to advance from level 38 to level 39. The last point where you are guaranteed to gain two levels (and thus actually make a profit) is level 29, though. (To go from Level 30 to Level 32 takes 20400xp.) As for your mystery 21 levels, did you do most/all the single player XP things with those characters? I don't know where you end up if you complete all of it, but you gain those first levels really fast. Completing the Character Story, watching the three seasons of demonstrations, and beating Easy Survival will get you to level 14 (as I'd previously done with Rashid.) Completing your first season of character trials on top of that I think puts you to 16, and adding Normal Survival I thing gets you to around 19-20? Hard Survival should jump you past 21, but the other seasons of character trials might get you there? Mind, that is why I consider the idea of paying Fight Money to earn XP specifically to earn Fight Money to be the equivalent of paying a cash fee to get a cash advance. Unlike other activities and missions, this exchange does not generate new Fight Money. Instead you are paying a FM fee to get faster access to the exact same Fight Money that you'd eventually have earned through regular play. For an example, take my case with Rashid. I only beat Easy Survival with him, not his higher difficulties. At Level 14, I'd have earned enough xp from beating Normal to get him 4 to 5 levels, and thus earn 4-5000FM. However, now that I've gotten him to Level 28, beating Normal will only give him enough xp to advance a single level, thus only earning 1000FM. Delete? To delete this post, check this box. Delete subthread too ? To delete all replies to your message, check this box (currently disabled) Show Signature: include your profile signature. Emoticons: disable Emoicons in this post.