How do you spend your 'Double XP Weekends'?
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Alissara,
Posted on: 2008-02-01 13:19 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I'll be spending most of this one working. *sigh*
The time I do get to be online will be spent leveling a stalker I've had for around 2 years who's still in her early 20s (god I hate this set, but she's a great RP character), and pushing my ice/storm 'troller to 32.
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Maybe I should get her into CoX... she's in England though...
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My bet is that she's already into CoX...
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I would like to get my 33 Empie Fender to at least bridging status so i can lvl my 13 DB scrapper later. Also need to fine tune my 24 MM a bit before the weekend hits
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The Master Double XP Plan:
8PM Thursday-Piss off wife.
This is so she won't want to spend anytime with me and that leaves me free to play. Of course my alone time will greatly depend on the level of her anger. I gotta make it good...but not too good, just long enough to last about 2 days.
10:30AM Friday-Be late for work. My schedule is flexible like that.
3PM Friday-Leave work early. Like I said, the schedule is flexible like that.
4PM Friday-Arrive home with kid in tow from the daycare. Give him a snack. Turn on Doodle Bops so he won't bug me.
4:30 Friday-Log in
3AM Saturday-Go to sleep.
7AM Saturday-Wake up. No Hygiene stuff this day. I go straight to the PC. I can shower later.
8AM-until Saturday-Play the CoH and avoid my wife's piercing stare all day...ignore everyone else...except the dog...he has to have his bio breaks.
8AM Sunday-Wake up for church and play CoH before I'm late. I think God understands. 
12PM Sunday-Arrive home from church. Don't get undressed. Play CoH in a 3 piece suit the remainder of the day.
10PM Sunday-Apologize to my wife for being a jerk. Make sweet sweet make up love.
10:05PM Sunday-Back to CoH until I pass out.
Double XP Weekend Successful!
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Dude.. that was hilarious. However, I did dig deeper in the forums and found this disturbing post:
Wife's Anti-Double XP weekend:
Thursday
6pm -Expect erratic and strange behavior from husband... He'll do whatever he can to get PC time.
Friday
Morning - Not worried about the AM, downtime maintenance will bore him, and he'll head into work in hopes to get out earlier.
3pm- get home before husband. Have a great evening planned cook his favorite meal. Have a greeting card next to his plate telling him how much he is appreciated.
4pm-greet him and junior at the door, tell him that tonight would be a great night to have a family night. Even break out "candy land" and "chutes and ladders"
8pm- put junior to bed. And make husband watch "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Terms of Endearment"
11:45am- after soaking up the tears, hold him while we both fall asleep
Saturday Morning
6am- get showered and have breakfast ready.
7am- Wake up husband tell him that he has 1 hour to get ready before babysitter arrives. Hand him his suit and remind him about my 2nd cousin's wedding.
8am- Oh No! We forgot a gift! Spend 2.5 hours walking the mall trying to pick out "something special"
11am-2 hour ceremony? Wow.. They really outdid their selves
1pm- Drive an hour away to see the beautiful landscape where they chose to have their pictures taken
2pm-introduce husband to relatives that he will probably never see again
3pm- Drive an hour back to reception hall
4pm- Dinner and Dancing... How nice
9pm- spend an hour saying goodbye to everyone
10pm- head home
10:30pm Get home and tell husband that Im tired, and ask him to bring babysitter to her father's house 2 towns over.
Sunday
12am- Husband comes home to find me on the computer. I had no time in the day to get my work done, so I am finishing it now. I should be done in a couple hours.
... Wait for the snoring, and then go to bed
6am- Shower, clean house
7am- wake up husband and tell him to get showered and dressed. I invited my parents over for breakfast
8am- Parents arrive and have breakfast
9am- Father Invites husband out for a surprise, he tells him that they don't ever have "male bonding time"
10:30am- Arrives at an Ice fishing location and spend hours telling my husband old war stories while they catch nothing at all.
4:30pm- husband and father come home to supper and a few hands of Cribbage
6pm Tell Junior that Dad is going to take him to Chucky Cheese!
8pm- husband comes home with a sleeping kid and a paper crown on his head
8:15pm- Spend QT time with husband 
8:19pm- when we are done, Tell husband that I need to finish my work on the computer and say "Just think... Next week... we have absolutely nothing planned!"
Bummer Dude!
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Husband/Wife Double XP Weekend:
Live on computer, delivery pizza, foraging in kitchen, and catnaps....
It's great when we both play.
I don't have any definite plans save to get my 49 blaster to 50, beyond that I'll probably be pushing characters past uncomfortable spots to key levels (like stamina, tier 9 powers), and just raking in the sweet, sweet double prestige on lowbies or influence on my 50s.
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Like quite a few others, my weekend will be spent primarily at work. Only having time to play between 7:30 - 10. I won't complain, though since the last Double XP Weekends I was there full force.
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Husband/Wife Double XP Weekend:
Live on computer, delivery pizza, foraging in kitchen, and catnaps....
It's great when we both play.
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... Friday Morning is for grocery shopping.
Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
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Well, I don't know about anybody else, but, during the Double XP weekend, I'll probably be spending practically every waking moment in the game, even more so than I have before. Wonder if anybody at NCsoft has looked at the time I spend in the game and wonder when I sleep?
Going to try to get some of my mid-20s up to or at least closer to level 50, and some of my real low level characters up to at least level 14 so getting around is a lot easier.
Got plenty of caffeine, energy drinks, and two of my high-speed internet connections are up and running, so, I should be good.
As for the SG/VG thing, my VG on Infinity is doing a prestige contest with big prizes. I put the information on that server thread instead of giving it all here and boring people with details.
Wonder how many people are going to be making use of an electronarcosis rig this week-end? Hee hee hee
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It's gonna pretty much be between BS-ing on a couple papers I've gotta at least start this weekend, cuddling/playing CoH with the boyfriend, sleeping, eating, and building a pillow fort.
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8AM Sunday-Wake up for church and play CoH before I'm late. I think God understands.
12PM Sunday-Arrive home from church. Don't get undressed. Play CoH in a 3 piece suit the remainder of the day.
10PM Sunday-Apologize to my wife for being a jerk. Make sweet sweet make up love.
10:05PM Sunday-Back to CoH until I pass out.
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Five minutes, eh?
Maybe that's God's way of saying He doesn't understand.
To answer the OP:
I'm a school teacher who'll be taking Friday off due to a sore throat that will most likely develop on Thursday night.
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The wife couldn't get off the entire weekend, but since she won't have to be at work until 1:00 on Saturday, she'll be parked and playing early Saturday morning.
I, on the other hand, will probably rotate through some of my lowbies to get them up to travel powers, then concentrate on my Level 36 and see if I can't get him to 40 before the weekend is out.
Ambitious, perhaps, but that's my plan and I'm sticking to it. So neener.
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I will spend all but 5 hours a day for sleep leveling all my heroes who are not lvl 50 on Freedom to lvl 46.
Why 46?
Each one will get to 46 so that when DBL exp is over.. I can be someones PERMA BRIDGE.. to 50 for each one.
My husband is doing the same.. so after DBL EXP we will have about 9 46s sitting on Freedom each.
And if we get those all to 46 with time to waste we will get all our villains to 35+ on Virtue...
And if we still have time... ... Infinity is lookin pretty good to house all my "good names" toons 
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Pain,
Speaking on behalf of the Titans of Paragon City, we'd love to have you with us on Infinity whether you join our SG or not. Not that I've got any server luv bias or anything...
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I'm very lucky. My wife will be making sure I am up and ready for the event, and that we have plenty of snacks nearby. Its great when your spouse plays the games you do
Of course, we met in CoH, so that's also a plus
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If only I had a girlfriend who played CoH.
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If only I had a girlfriend. 
Anyway, I'll be playing. Get together with SG, recruit some more, and play some more.
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Hey lemme tell ya man, having an SO that plays your nerdy little superhero game with you is a mixed blessing. Oh it's mostly good, but when your wife has 10 (yes, 10) level 50s to your...um...NONE...it kinda makes you wonder.
I swear I REALLY thought she was kidding when she said she wanted her own account. That was two years ago.
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As most of my weekend will be spent either out of town or working out, Double-XP Weekend doesn't really affect me much at all In my free time though, I hope to level up my Dominator into the 30s, and then try to make some emergency cash with my Stalker to counter the inevitable jump in prices that will be seen on the Black Market before purple recipes end up out of my reach indefinitely.
I wasn't going to do anything different - work until 5:00 on Friday. Play some Friday night between chores and stuff. Wait until the wife wakes up Saturday afternoon (she's a day sleeper) and play with her until I crash around midnight. Sunday, lather, rinse, and repeat.
Except...
My wife took Friday off and plans on getting up early Saturday and Sunday, so I've now had my schedule reconstructed. It's CoH pretty much solid from noon Friday until midnight Sunday.
I love it when my wife gets aggressive like that.
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I wasn't going to do anything different - work until 5:00 on Friday. Play some Friday night between chores and stuff. Wait until the wife wakes up Saturday afternoon (she's a day sleeper) and play with her until I crash around midnight. Sunday, lather, rinse, and repeat.
Except...
My wife took Friday off and plans on getting up early Saturday and Sunday, so I've now had my schedule reconstructed. It's CoH pretty much solid from noon Friday until midnight Sunday.
I love it when my wife gets aggressive like that.
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Isn't it wonderful when things like this work?
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I'm just doing my best to find a grandparent to watch the kids for a few extra hours so I can get some play time in. Normally the wife and I can only play after they go to bed at 8:00ish.
I'm actually pretty excited. My Bro-in-law has been playing for a year on Dial-up (lives in the sticks) so I haven't played on more then a 3 man team in that long.
He got BB last week and we've been exploring, virtually, the other half of the game he was missing. We're both really excited.
plan A: Cerise to 50. Villainside Pinnacle, that might be... interesting.
However..
plan B: Play with VG mates as we level up our stuff, w00t. Val is lookin' to be a pretty good MM I think.
So here's plan C, the combo:
Plan B until in range of Cerise, then Plan A as far as I can. I hope.
I'm sure something will come up to ruin my plans... that's why they're called 'plans' after all...
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I'm just doing my best to find a grandparent to watch the kids for a few extra hours so I can get some play time in. Normally the wife and I can only play after they go to bed at 8:00ish.
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Heh, my son has his own account, so I figure I can put a good amount of time in, while the wife is at work. I got a lvl 49 on my account and a 48 on my wife's account that I aim to get to 50.
(Our first 50s too).
Hmm.. I think I should SK my son's toon, get him some power leveling.
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I will spend it working. I always miss out.
I work 8 AM to 11PM Saturday amd Sunday
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The same thing I do every night Pinky......Try and take over the world!!!
Okay, not really, prolly try and get my new tank up past lvl 20.......god, I hate the pre-20's- accuracy and no-end suxx!!
Other than that- nothing special- tool around, fight crime. Maybe log on my Scrapper and try to partake in some ship raids.
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I have set these goals in terms of levelling:
iStorm, ill/storm 29->38
Frank Frost, ice/stone tank 18->32+ (for KHTF tanking, I love that TF!)
Mobsquad, thugs/dark MM 36->39
Blap Carnage, fire/em blaster 26->30+
Delete my lvl 23 dark/wp scrapper and maybe roll a dark/dark defender.
My guess is that something is bound to fail considering there's an 18mo kid that needs attention as well and both me and my significant other want to play. And no, no babysitters available.
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Unbelievable. You, [subject name here], must be the pride of [subject hometown here]!
Friday: Probably running some of my villains. Still stuck at 23, so I could use some double XP.
Saturday: Work 3-9 p.m. When I get home, the Defenders of Defendery will be running Manticore.
Sunday: Sneak in when I can while caring for the young one. More DoD Sunday night as we push for 38.
For past Double XP weekends, I spent all my time leveling up one character. This time around, though, I'm going to spread the XP bonanza across several of my characters who have stalled in their 30s.