Discussion: Double XP Weekend of June 15th
By
008Zulu,
Posted on: 2007-05-31 11:57 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
I'd much rather have a double rare salvage drop weekend.
so father's day weekend seemed like a good weekend for this big event?
bah.
@Ba'alat/@Zizka
"Plausibility is nothing compared to nerdrage." --PumBumbler
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Father's day is only one day. Do you guys wake up your dads at 5 a.m. Sunday and follow him around until he goes to bed that night because it's Father's day? I mean, there's a difference between spending time with dear ol' dad and not leaving the poor bugger alone. :P
The event starts at 9 a.m. Friday morning (PDT) and runs through Sunday evening. There is plenty of time to get mad double XP even without ignoring your dad and convincing him your a heartless videogame-obsessed monster. Really!
I work on Friday. That means that there will be hours -- hours! -- when that double XP will just be wasting away while I earn my pay. Then the time I'll spend eating, sleeping, in the shower, out enjoying the sun...all that time wasted when I could be glued to my PC earning double XP!
Somehow I'll get through. I suspect those celebrating Father's day will manage as well. 
[/ QUOTE ]
I agree with you whole-heartedly. Even if some people do spend all day Sunday with their father, that still leaves half of Friday and all of Saturday.
[/ QUOTE ]
Unless, of course, you're the dad like I am with several kids coming in on Friday and staying the weekend.
Now, I'm not about to miss a weekend with the kids to play a video game and I won't get my Depends in a knot about missing another 2XP weekend, but it is the kind of issue you'd hope someone might consider before scheduling an event.
Obviouisly they can't take into account everyone's schedule, but -- and this is just a wild guess -- I suspect a majority of people playing the game are fathers themselves and/or have fathers. So, taking Fathers Day into consideration before scheduling a 2XP weekend doesn't seem like an extraordinary expectation.
[/ QUOTE ]
They did take Father's Day into account -- it's mentioned directly in Positron's announcement (Positron also happens to be a father himself).
[/ QUOTE ]
Mentioning something and actually taking it into consideration are two very different things.
Now, maybe they did take it into consideration & I simply disagree with their conclusions (or possibly I'm not taking into consideration some unknown internal issues they also had to balance). However, overall it does seem like this particular weekend with a specific holiday that many people celebrate one way or another may not have been the best choice considering the many non-holiday weekends available.
[/ QUOTE ]
I'm not a dad and live so far from my own father that the only interruption Father's Day will have on my XPing is the length of a telephone call.
Even so, trying to put myself in the shoes of the Devs, I have a hard time coming up with a good reason why I'd schedule a Double XP event for a weekend that does affect so many people . For the same reason, I probably wouldn't schedule it for a 4th of July weekend even though it's not a holiday my country celebrates.
I could almost understand if it slipped their minds that this was going to be Father's Day weekend, but as the earlier poster mentioned the fact was acknowledged in the announcement.
I have to agree that, even though there was an acknowledgement, absent some unknown factors the lack of consideration seems odd.
Hmm, Father's day weekend. I have three kids who have activities planned and I need to spend time with my Dad as well. I don't see that I will have ANY time to play that weekend. Great timing y'all. Great timing.
Does double XP weekend end at 11:59 sunday.
Do the devs read these boards ? I'm just wondering if there is any chance they might say something like "you know what, it was a bad weekend to plan this, so we are moving it a weekend forward." or "Due to poor planning, this time and only this time we are going to have three double xp events this year and will plan another before the end of summer on a non holiday weekend." So do they read these boards and do they value our feedback at all? I'm not being a smart alec, I'm asking because I'm new to the boards and I don't know.
[ QUOTE ]
Does double XP weekend end at 11:59 sunday.
[/ QUOTE ]
Don't be silly. Everyone knows it always ends when maintenance starts on the following Monday. No one sits around at the NCSoft/Cryptic offices that late on a Sunday and pulls the plug at the stroke of Midnight.
The event is roughly 72 hours long, running from the end of Friday's maintenance to the start of Monday's.
The Widow's Dark Hand - leader of Faux Pas
Champion Server
Tee Hee!
By the way, your assertion that school is out is not all-encompassing.
My classes have this last week to go...then lots of teacher wrap up stuff.
Thrythlind's Deviant Art Page
"Notice at the end, there: Arcanaville did the math and KICKED IT INTO EXISTENCE." - Ironik on the power of Arcanaville's math
For those of whom will be joing in on the fun on the 15th, you should check out the Player Events sections
First of all, thanks Devs for granting us another double XP weekend. But is there anyway you guys can announce this a little farther out than you do? I know several people that sometime have to work on the weekends and with a little more future notice they might be able to ask for time off in order to participate. Or how about having a 2-3 day double xp event in the middle of the week? Or how about going half a week? Just suggestions.
lvl 50 Energy Blaster
Protecting the Galaxy, one planet at a time......
@Capt Omega
Lets just expand the program...we could have Double XP Week or Month. Alternatively, offer it on a predictable schedule or part of some sort of server wide reward program for various in game accomplishments.
Thorizdin
Lords of the Dead
Old School Legends
double xp weekend?! YES! time to get Cat Kitten up in the 40s,and Chelthic Cat can see the 30s. I hope my SG will PL this time.
Every weekend should be double XP; rather, the XP we earn during double XP should be the norm. It just takes way too long the other way.
[ QUOTE ]
Every weekend should be double XP; rather, the XP we earn during double XP should be the norm. It just takes way too long the other way.
[/ QUOTE ]
I think week, month or perma is a little too much.
I would like them to take a look at both the 1-20 game; which is made longer simply because of the ineffectiveness of TOs and lack of slots available; and the 35+ (in particular the 35-40) range, both areas where I feel xp could use a bit of a bump (maybe as much as a 50% bump- it would keep leveling somewhat slow, but speedd it up from the current rate).
Other than that, I think a week-long event would encourage too many bad habits (have you *seen* all the STs that promise level 50s at the cost of sleep deprivation?), and a month-long would encourage too many part-time subscribers, which- imo -is not something this game needs.
I would prefer that the double xp weekends were spread over 4 days (either thurs-sun or fri through mon) and given 2 weekends consecutively. Yes, people would still complain, but it would allow for most to schedule some time at least one of those 2 4-day weekends to enjoy the xp bump.
Just my thoughts.
First off, I did not read the whole thread.
Has anyone thought that they chose this weekend on purpose. I suppose Double XP weekend is meant to get new or returning players to join. By putting it on this weekend the Devs may realize that not everyone will be able to join. This will cutdown on the number of peeps on at one time causing lag worse than normal. This may mean less "new" players but if all the new and returning players on the lag in itself could be enough to keep some people from deciding to join up.
And Devs, I think 2 weeks is plenty of time to give.
Let the flaming begin.
Icey-Hott - Lvl 50 Ice/Fire Tank-Champion
Icey Hott - Lvl 50 Ice/Fire Blaster-Liberty
Dream-Weaver - Lvl 50 Ill/Kin Controller-Liberty
Star of the Show - Lvl 50 Inv/SS Tank-Champion
William Tell Lvl 50 Arch/MM Blst-Champion
Well I just came back to the game, and this is great! Had to get away from some other games. And this is a good way too get me away from the others! And got some solid friends to lvl w/. Ok, well cant wait for Dxp!
xElectress
Anxiety
[ QUOTE ]
Every weekend should be double XP; rather, the XP we earn during double XP should be the norm. It just takes way too long the other way.
[/ QUOTE ]
Yea... And while your at it i want level 50 on completeing the tutorial, and all veteran rewards even though I havent earned them and...and...and... sheesh.
This is a perk. Not meant to be a game mechanic. As said a million times before, this game is about the journey and not the destination.
Dragon-King First level 50 -- Fire/Nrg Blaster
(and to many alts to mention)
Protector
Quote:
| Originally by Arcanaville: Everything in Praetoria was designed during a drinking binge in which the devs temporarily forgot the rules. |
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Unless of course, mother nature decides to throw a temper tantrum on St. Louis again....
[/ QUOTE ]
HEY! BITE YOUR TONGUE!!!!! I live in St. Louis county!!! Don't even joke. HAHAHA
Maybe I'll get my 44 Emp Def on Freedom to 50.... FINALLY!
[/ QUOTE ]
pffft... all 4 power disrupting storms affected me.. as im in the county as well :P
Maybe il get my scrap to 45!!!! would be nice... be almost bridging range :P
[ QUOTE ]
As said a million times before, this game is about the journey and not the destination.
[/ QUOTE ]
Well said.
x2 xp weekend for me = Play my new PB, and/or maybe roll up a WS and grab a few (dozen) levels.
__________________________________________________
PeaceBringers/Warshades = cure for alt-itis.
Masterminds annoy everybody, sooner or later. Heck, Masterminds annoy themselves.
-ShadowsBetween
[ QUOTE ]
Great news Posi, and hats off to you guys for doing this again. These are always so much fun, although they usually make my altitis even worse than usual.
Maybe now I can finally get my 2nd 50 after 18 months haha!
[/ QUOTE ]
It'll make mine worse too. (and it's bad)
I have 2 accounts completely full.
I have taken one hero and one villian to the 20s and have a pair of each at ten. the other 18 toons are at 2nd level.
I plan to take advantage of the 'double prestigue' by entering every toon into 2 new SGs set up as 'private clubs' (One for my heros and one for my villians).
That means each new SG will start with 480K. I won't pull any toons out until the loss for such is back down to 20K (if then...I do love to run double toons of each archtype).
How's that for planning?
Now if only I could figure out how to put a vid in my avatar.
[ QUOTE ]
Everyone get some XP for me.
[/ QUOTE ]
U talked me into it
[ QUOTE ]
Fantastic. Girlfriend is gone that weekend ... three days of glorious exp
[/ QUOTE ]
Don't tell her you'll be enjoying her absence. now THAT is trouble
[ QUOTE ]
Runs around in circles, screaming like an ADHD 5 year old hopped up on candy bars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
This is one of the best birthday presents ever!!!
Thank you Santa Claus!
Thank you Easter Bunny!!
Thank you Great Pumpkin!!!
THANK YOU POSITRON!!!! 
[/ QUOTE ]
hmmmm. . .you'd almost think he was happy. ;-)
[ QUOTE ]
Gahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE WEEKEND I GO TO VEGAS!
GAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[/ QUOTE ]
OH NOES!! Its the weekend I GET BACK from Vegas! Lucky me, poo on you!
No, I kid. I'm sorry, if you give me your account info- GACK! Positron! No! But, you're my favorite! NOOOOOO-
...But I... only wanted to help...
XP
...
Another scammer dead, thanks to Posi. Yay Positron!