3000 is just way too high for casual players to achieve. I am a casual player but I am a massive fan of this game will 100% be pre-ordering TD2 as I love this game. However, between work and other life commitments I just don't have a lot of free time. I've put 280 hours into this game (which I know isn't a lot compared to the majority of people on this forum) and have managed to get a commendation score of 1725 but the majority of the remaining commendations would take hours upon hours of grinding to achieve. Now I know I'm not alone by stating that I will never be able to get my score to 3000 for the shield and have been dreading this one coming out since they were all data mined a few months ago but I'd hoped the devs may have also seen that target as just a little too high and changed it.
To give you an example I've just spent the last hour grinding the first part of Clear Sky and in that time I have earned about 800,000 xp (enough for 2 field caches). If you divide that by 1238 (which is the amount of xp you get per kill in WT2 on Challenging) that equates to 646 Rikers killed. I need to kill 5000 Rikers to get to the next stage of that particular commendation and the same amount of kills with my SMG and that means I need to grind at that same rate for over 7.5 hours to earn 2 commendations and a grand total of 80 points (I think those two give you 40 each but not 100%, it may be less).
So that's my arguement. Now I know for a fact I'm probably gonna get flamed by a lot of the more elitist members of this forum who think it's nothing to play a game for 2000+ hours and have probably achieved that score several months ago. But this is for the (possible) minority of us out there that can't put that kinda time into this game and still want to earn all the shields (which I believe is the only goal left for me now and the only reason I log into this game anymore in the lead up to TD2).
If you got this far, thanks for reading. If you agree or disagree with what I have said above then let me know, at the very least it's something other than Pre-Order complaints to read about on this forum.
tl;dr - 3000 commendation score is too high, don't be lazy and read the post to understand my reasons
