Do any small group/ solo player's actually like the XP system?

Yes. No more wasting the first week of a wipe farming/ (grinding) blueprints. No more RNG on getting C4 or weapons. I know that if I put in the time I'll get the items I want. I now have a reason to craft clothes, fishing traps, bone daggers, etc etc etc, where in the past I wouldn't waste my time because there was no reason. Now I get XP for crafting those items, I get XP for cooking food and feeding people, I get XP for catching fish. In the BP system I skipped over SO MUCH STUFF. I would go straight from a wood door to an armored door. I never once in my 250 hours of rust built a sheet metal door before. The other items now have a purpose. I'm having a blast. I don't get raided on day one, for the first time in months I started PVPing because I actually stood a chance (bow vs bow) instead of (bow vs ak-47). The XP system still needs work, but I. LOVE. IT. BP system was super broken and all of the people who are complaining about it being gone are most likely the clans who got an AK on day 1 and C4 on day 2... XP system helps balance the game. Can't wait to see what they do with it next.

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