What XP levels are you talking about ? etpro is a competition mod, and in (many) leagues, the tendency is to disable XP alltogether.
The way the covops class is crippled, in high level competition matches, you will never see any covops, period. Watch the demo of Affliction vs Rotators on radar if you like. Zero covops. And that's a map where you really step on mines, and you can snipe from various spots, etc.
This is all moot. This is version 3.0 of etpro and to this day there hasn't been any changes to gameplay. Unfortunately, an adjustment to anything no matter how minor will cause long threads of meaningless arguments.
My suggestion would be to allow for changes via cvars (and I know that could be complicated), and let the leagues instantiate different ladders for each major deviation from vanilla gameplay. But that would require at least a general acknowledgement of current status and a desire for change.
Landmine spotting
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