Did a run on testing to see how much the changes affect surface gathering. New result is 4min to 3k xp. That’s more in line with the others now, although I can’t explain how a 25% increase in basic boulder and desert sword XP accounts for a 50% difference in my time Maybe the planet I did the new test on is better, or I messed up something in my initial test. In any case the new numbers look a lot better.
Can’t say what it looks like on higher tier planets since T4 is the highest the testing planets go. My guesstimate is that the xp rate will now be similar to lower tier worlds (instead of being way worse), resources take more hits to destroy and aren’t as easy to run from one to the next one since the more rare resources aren’t so abundant as desert sword etc. I’ll wait and see when the patch goes live.
Maybe the planet I did the new test on is better, or I messed up something in my initial test. In any case the new numbers look a lot better.