Dublle XP weekend news over at MMOrpg.
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AlexEss,
Posted on: 2006-07-13 14:57 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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You all will get emails on it monday. It is happening.
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well, time to go stock up on coffee.
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WL levelling put every other powerleveling trick or tactic to shame. You can't even put it into the same country as old Dreck farming or classic bridging. There's been two or three xp-earning restrictions put into place due solely because of the WL event, making it a situation that could never be recreated, barring a bug.
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Wasn't one of them that you can't level twice off the same kill?
Er, ahem, "defeat".
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You all will get emails on it monday. It is happening.
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Cuppa, why of alll weekends, would this happen on an event as HUGE as Comic Con, and not this weekend? or the weekend after Comic Con?
I love the free XP (double xp) event, but many of us won't be able to enjoy it 
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As something for those of us who can't get to Comic Con and it's festivities? Honestly, I'd be happier to get to do that, but since I cannot this is a nice diversion.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
I'd like to echo remarks from others that it is rude to be doing this on the same weekend as the San Diego Comic Con. The con is thursday to sunday and leaves no time for the event. Maybe those who go to the con should find the ncsoft booth and let them know.
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You all will get emails on it monday. It is happening.
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Cuppa, why of alll weekends, would this happen on an event as HUGE as Comic Con, and not this weekend? or the weekend after Comic Con?
I love the free XP (double xp) event, but many of us won't be able to enjoy it
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Perhaps it's part of their marketing push in San Diego? Or perhaps it's a consolation prize for the 98% of CoX subscribers who won't be in San Diego? 
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Do not take the following seriously:
BAH! Why aren't they flying me out to Comic Con? They are so lame! 
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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You all will get emails on it monday. It is happening.
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Will the email give more details as to the "purpose" of the "weekend"?
If not, any chance we can get some more info as to the reason? Is it a PR event.....or is there a greater purpose?
Just curious 
Why does it need a reason?
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You all will get emails on it monday. It is happening.
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Silly question, as I haven'thad a chance on tet to see:
Does debt double?
Sometimes, I impress my boss. Sometimes, I impress myself. The rest of the time, I scare people. I can live with that.
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But I remember how crowded the servers were, every night, night after night.
[/ QUOTE ] Well, it did come right after I3 which introduced Striga Isle and the new Kheldian AT. I'm sure that had nothing to do with it.
[/ QUOTE ] Maybe. But I3 was came out in late '04, right? And I don't think the WLs made their appearance until just into '05?
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No. I3 premiered on the Live servers at the beginning of January. We had the 5th/Council Streetwar for the first few days afterward, then WL event started with frozen water and WL spottings in the high-level zones a week or so later with people scratching their heads, going "Huh? That's it?". Finally, towards the end of the month, it degenerated over the course of a few days into a nasty free-for-all once the monsters started popping up in the low-level zones and the news of the exploitative nature of the monster spawns got out. Like I said before, there are two or three xp-limiting functions that came directly out of the WL event.
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But I remember for a month straight, there were swarms of heroes buzzing around the WL spots, ...
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That's a little bit of an exaggeration, but close. You can double-check the announcements to see that it ran January 12, 2005 to February 9, 2006, with several server outages the first week of February. The monster spawns built over time and gradually filtered down into the low-level zones - which meant the first week or so there were only occasional WL sightings in Peregrine Island. The period where people were able to freely powerlevel new characters lasted maybe the last couple of weeks before the monsters were prematurely removed leaving only frozen patches here and there. Even then, there were a load of level 50's unnecessarily hunting monster spawns in low-level zones aggressively for the presents or for powerlevelling their SG members and second accounts.
Not to be a total wet blanket, but there really was only about 4-6 good days when the event wasn't anti-climatic or dominated by nasty spawn-camping. At the end, it was a huge distraction from actually playing, with half the playerbase pretending to be a mediocre Chinese powerlevelling service. It's telling that subsequent events have never come close to reproducing the haphazard design of it. The past Holiday event was much closer in intent to what the devs wanted and much less disruptive with lasting after-effects.
I'm not going to say that the WL event 'ruined' the game for any amount of time, but it very definitely a mixed bag experience overall. Individual experiences may vary. I was playing almost every day for a couple of hours back then when I wasn't updating my semi-official CoV factoid thread during my designated gaming time. It was cool that an event could grab the throat of the city, but the grip was a little tight. Many who around earlier enough to compare the Halloween '04 event and the WL event would say the Halloween one worked better in that it emphasized an experience rather the accumulation of xp.
Now get off my lawn, ya damn whipper-snappers! Arrrr! 
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I'd like to echo remarks from others that it is [/b]rude[/b] to be doing this on the same weekend as the San Diego Comic Con.
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Rude? Really? 
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I'd like to echo remarks from others that it is [/b]rude[/b] to be doing this on the same weekend as the San Diego Comic Con.
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Rude? Really?
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Yeah, NC Soft. Pin a rose on your nose!
How Rude!
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I'm so glad it isn't this weekend. I have next weekend totally free. Now I just have to think who I want to level up...
well this blows, im going to be doing a convention that weekend and probably wont have any time at all to play this. not one danged minute
As I posted in another similiar thread:
So they will use this to entice back long lost players...that we can't get ahold of because they disappeared off our global lists.
This is the compensation they promised us for that. However the press releases make it sound like some big special event. I think Cryptic should have owned up to their mistake and admitted they were doing it for a major error on their part. Cryptic is taking this and spinning it into a marketing ploy for themselves. As a business guy, I can respect that. As a player, I'm disgusted by it.
amazing.
i start my new job on the 24th lol
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As I posted in another similiar thread:
So they will use this to entice back long lost players...that we can't get ahold of because they disappeared off our global lists.
This is the compensation they promised us for that. However the press releases make it sound like some big special event. I think Cryptic should have owned up to their mistake and admitted they were doing it for a major error on their part. Cryptic is taking this and spinning it into a marketing ploy for themselves. As a business guy, I can respect that. As a player, I'm disgusted by it.
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The first test of the XP doubling showed up on the Test Server before the global crash, Issue 7 and the layoffs by NCSoft. They had to be planning this long before these errors occured.
Wait, does double XP also mean double Influence and Prestige?
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As I posted in another similiar thread:
So they will use this to entice back long lost players...that we can't get ahold of because they disappeared off our global lists.
This is the compensation they promised us for that. However the press releases make it sound like some big special event. I think Cryptic should have owned up to their mistake and admitted they were doing it for a major error on their part. Cryptic is taking this and spinning it into a marketing ploy for themselves. As a business guy, I can respect that. As a player, I'm disgusted by it.
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The first test of the XP doubling showed up on the Test Server before the global crash, Issue 7 and the layoffs by NCSoft. They had to be planning this long before these errors occured.
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Then they are taking a previously planned event and just wrapping our "compensation" into it too. Either way you look at it, it's bogus.
And yes Cuppa confirmed yesterday that influence and prestige will be doubled as well.
supposedly, yes.
this should be fun, I was pretty sure I was going to hit 50 soon on my blaster anyway, and this just seals the deal.
This infuriates me even more.
I don't even care about the double XP.
I am part of a small SG and it is incredibly hard for us to get prestige to a level where we can do anything worth while in our base.
This opportunity for Double Prestige will now be lost for us because we're all going to be at the con all weekend.
This is truly the first thing that has happened in this game that has really pissed me off but it has really...pissed...me...off.
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Wait, does double XP also mean double Influence and Prestige?
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I believe CuppaJo has mentioned that, yes, it does.
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As a player, I'm disgusted by it.
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You've been disgusted by a lot of things lately - some of them in crackpot fashion. How are we to keep up with you?
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Thanks for the info, Clint. I do recall that I was not playing much for the first part of the event, which is probably WHY my perception is skewed. Not sure if it was work, or I got wrapped up with an NWN mod, or what.
I do remember that monsters got changed after this. Was the "X levels from median party level" change one of these? I don't actually remember that going into patch notes, but there have been stretches where I didn't play for a month or two.
Can we please have a little more warning time when something as cool as this is coming down the pipeline?
I usually work on the weekends and one week notice is to short to ask for these days off. I hate to be a little whiner, but I would have loved to participate the majority of the weekend.
(I could play for hours straight with motivation like this)
Please, Please! give us a two weeks notice if this ever happens again.
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Yeah. And frankly, the WL event was hugely popular.
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Frankly, the WL event got a hugely mixed reaction, especially towards the beginning and the end of the two week event. You're having a nostagia fever.
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I'm not saying everyone LIKED what was happening. When I say popular, I mean: the servers were busy like I have not since since launch. Admittedly, the opinion on the event was mixed. I only "winterlorded" one character myself, and ended up deleting him (although it was a fun experiment).
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I didn't like all the cluebies with no idea how to use their powers, but frankly, that's just the most accessible of 20 different exploits you could PL someone with.
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WL levelling put every other powerleveling trick or tactic to shame. You can't even put it into the same country as old Dreck farming or classic bridging. There's been two or three xp-earning restrictions put into place due solely because of the WL event, making it a situation that could never be recreated, barring a bug.
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I never tried WLing with a character in the 40s, but I did one to 22, and it seemed to be falling off rapidly, because the WL xp was a specific fixed number. 10,000 xp is a HUGE number to a L1 (and still great at L20), but my share of a WL as a 50 was about what I'd get from killing a minion. I concluded, therefore, that a traditional PL technique like farming Dreck, wolves, or the GF mission would be far better at high levels. So "WLing" was most effective for one thing: PLing alts up to 22 or so. (I was getting a VERY good share of xp as a decked out fire blaster, and it took me about 1 hour to get someone from 1-22)
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But I remember how crowded the servers were, every night, night after night.
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Well, it did come right after I3 which introduced Striga Isle and the new Kheldian AT. I'm sure that had nothing to do with it.
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Maybe. But I3 was came out in late '04, right? And I don't think the WLs made their appearance until just into '05? And I don't remember seeing the big load spike until the WLs debuted... in fact, a bit after they debuted. *shrug* Especially given HOW LONG it lasted, I think the WL event was a hugely popular (in terms of usage increase) event.
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Respectfully, I just think you're overselling the whole WL event, in the same way people tend to oversell the end-of-beta events.
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The end of beta event I missed... can't remember why. I had been playing for a while, but I think I Was out of town. But I remember for a month straight, there were swarms of heroes buzzing around the WL spots, the servers had a notably higher load throughout the event, and when it ended, there was a high level of noise about rollbacks, deletions, bugs, and so on. There was a lasting effect of "WL characters" who didn't know how to use their powers.
I don't have a shining view of the WL events - I don't think it was an ideal way to dole out extra xp by any stretch. But whereas reaction to the double xp plan seems mixed, it certainly seemed to me from the WL event that getting lots of xp fast is a very popular activity.