Wotld contains two types of Points. Experience Points (XP) and Survival Points (SP).
XP
XP is earned from killing zeds, scavenging, completing missions and collecting research items. XP allows a NECRA Operative to gain levels and obtain access to more squad, safehouse or survivor slots. In the classic approach to XP, simpler activities become slightly less rewarding as the player gains levels, eventually leading to zero XP, while missions and more complex activities come to the fore.
Survival Points (effectively Skill Points) are awarded to every survivor whenever the player levels up, with survivors who have been around for longer getting more points. Every player also gets a small daily SP bonus from logging into the game. SP can only be spent on skills for that survivor, with no refunds if the character dies. Keeping your survivors alive has never been more vital in WotLD.
Survival Points are the currency used to improve the skills of survivors and to build/improve safehouses.
Gaining SP
There are a few ways to gain SP.
- Scavenging is the best and most common way to gain survival points (and items).
- The second most efficient method is to rescue survivors. Doing so nets you 100 SP per survivor saved.
- Completing Missions.
- Killing zombies gets you a small amount of SP. You gain 1SP for every zombie killed.
- Exchanging Infocards for SP.
Spending SP
SP is used to in the following ways.
- Improving Skills.
- Building Player Safehouses.
- Upgrading safehouses with Safehouse upgrades.