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A better, win-win way to approach this is with a "double XP temp power" that is good on your toon for X hours/days of gameplay. That way, the rush for PLing is more spread out, and regular players get to enjoy the benefits of the double XP without being shut out regularly.
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I don't agree with this being something that isn't counted down in real time. Look at the Holiday Spirit awards. I've got some toons with them left from the December 05 award.
If they do something like this I would think it needs to be done with a real-time count down. You click it and it's good for 48 hours of real time from when you click it. The code is there from the holiday temp powers like the self rez and jet pack. This *would* give people a chance to schedule it in with work schedules or what not. Make it not stackable like when they gave freespecs, only one at a time. You don't use it, you lose it.
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AND NOT give it to everyone at the same time. Do it on a random rollnig basis.
Cause if you give to everyone who has a toon on Freedom at the same time, guess what will happen again?
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Hm.
Vet reward for 4 years, maybe? 
Laser: Your way's a good improvement. I was honestly thinking of 3-6 hours of in-game time, since that's what the "average" player does during one of these weekends, but I omitted it to avoid the "why r u too low???" commentaries that were sure to follow...
Not sure how to do a "rolling rollout", but vet rewards ARE one avenue for that. Maybe for the annual veteran rewards, starting at year two onward?
@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE
Turg Fiction: Ghost in the Machine Acts III & IV coming 2012!
Turg Fiction: IX is now LIVE on Architect Entertainment!
Personally, I think that it would need to be a granted item on a specific date to all accounts to be available. The way it's currently implemented it's a gift for ALL players regardless of how long they've been playing. Changing that dynamic would be something I'd hate to see happen.
Pie in the sky item: They tie it to your global account. Nearly everything in the game is driven by databases. Have a flag field enabled/disabled when the power is clicked at the global account level (since it appears all characters are a child table to the global user table). When a player logs in it checks the value of this field from the global account. Three possible values (rough examples: used/enabled/unused) are checked. This might be completely unrealistic given that the servers appear to require a restart to enable/disable the code though.
When "Unused" is checked the click temp for enabling double xp is tripped. When "Enabled"is flagged a script pulls the click temp and forces a look-up to the doubled xp table. When "Disabled" the account would not have the extra table look-up or the temp click available. If the field is set to "Unused" at the time of the next grant, just have the script bypass that entry and process the next.
/e summons constructive Hamenopi
Most of these recent posts are valid and are great ideas. We must seek out what would benefit the greater good of the greater community and shine these things for the devs to see, for we all do not look at the same work of art.
My original idea was to cancel 2xp all together. It usually end up like someone yelling fire in an overpacked stadium as we can see with see from the 30+ page count. Just one of the many threads. But as the flames of hatred and loathing disperse the fallout settles and now we should charge ourselves with finding better ways of implementing such 'freebies' the game offers us. None of us were really 'entitled' to the 2xp after all, it was a gift. Like cash thrown from a Mardi Gras float.
I would submit that, like previously mentioned, a special 2xp token be handed out with say... a veteran award to each toon of the players account where in the player may freely choose to activate the 'temp power' at their leisure. Perhaps when their partner also gets a token for their continued payment.
Many people such as Rose, and Titania for the most part missed out on the mayhem and although it isn't considered fair, is this not how the world works. Things happen, real life exists. If the devs would like to continue with such generous gifts, I would ask them to investigate how difficult this 2xp token would be to implement.
Yes I am aware that with this avenue, you will not be able to present record breaking numbers to the shareholders but let them know, by doing this, you can make pretty much everyone happy, maintaining the shareholders longterm profits which are far more meaningful than short term number charts.
In review, my idea, from my mind as well as several of the previous posters. The implementation of a 2xp token or temp power should be given with a series of veteran awards to alleviate the congestion of high populace servers. This will not only benefit the two larger servers, but all of the smaller servers too.
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A temporary power wouldn't let them get the stress tests they need for the servers and wouldn't provide the big population numbers that give the illusion that the game is a bigger succcess than it actually is.
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A temporary power wouldn't let them get the stress tests they need for the servers and wouldn't provide the big population numbers that give the illusion that the game is a bigger succcess than it actually is.
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Please refrain from violating forum guidelines while we try to be constructive. Also, if you bother reading the previous few post, your conserns were already addressed.
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I'm not violating forum rules at all. Why don't you point out how granting a temporary power allows them to maximize server capacity, cause at the moment Double XP Weekend does that just fine as is.
Whoa - talk about a split-personality thread. It started out pretty petty and mean (something I'd have expected from other games' lesser forums) - and that lasted for MANY pages - then the past couple of pages were sane and thoughtful.
I see the pissy posts were early in the morning (mostly). Maybe there was just a case of global crankiness and a good night's sleep made it all better?
My faith in CoX forums has been restored!
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If I were to use this hypothetical double XP power during a double XP weekend, then in theory, would I get Quad XP? 
Also, why would you want to use a double XP power, unless using it for solo levels only.... because if you are earning 2x the XP of a good team, you're going to out level them then have to go through the irritation of finding a new team... that's kinda lame.
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Whoa - talk about a split-personality thread. It started out pretty petty and mean (something I'd have expected from other games' lesser forums) - and that lasted for MANY pages - then the past couple of pages were sane and thoughtful.
I see the pissy posts were early in the morning (mostly). Maybe there was just a case of global crankiness and a good night's sleep made it all better?
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Its gotten snarky and bitchy again look above your post lol.
Well folks this kind of thing happens when servers get "known" for something. I have never really spent much time on Freedom, due to the constant yellow status. Saw that as an invitation to lag. So I played mostly on Infinity, however couldn't find a lot of RPers there. So I find out that Virtue has the majority of RPers so I go there and play. My enjoyment increases, I get people to team with who actually give a dink about character developement and concept. Not just a Video Game to most of them. But, with that comes times like this weekend when you get lag and dc's, but I find I am enjoying the game more.
If another server had a large number of dedicated RPers then I might consider playing there, however this does not seem to be the case.
Perhaps the devs should look into how to have the population spread out more without lowering enjoyment. That would be a monumental task for any game company.
Dark Equalizer
/em points and laughs.
HA ha! I was content down here in teh carribean getting a tan (To answer you before you ask, no, a canadian who goes out in the sun does NOT burst into flame like a vampire.) and drinking Caribes. At least I would if my medication didn't say no alchohol. 
So, I had no lag or locked out servers to condend with! Huzza!
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/em sheds a single tear at missing 2XP Weekend.
/em wanders off to work on her tan.
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Did the otters get a tan too?
not a big deal really.tried to login around 3am when i got back in friday night,tried some again on sat.didn't bother to keep at it since i figured alot of other people were trying to get on.i had alot of other things to do anyways.
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I will say this: I was one of the first people on this thread complaining about the lockout/lowered cap on Freedom on Friday night. I was pretty upset about not being able to play the game. I am pretty amazed at how fast the devs 1) responded to the issue within the forums, informing us of what was going on, and 2) how fast they took steps to undo the lowered pop cap on freedom allowing players to play--even if it was a bit laggy (trust me, it wasn't that bad--especially considering what we had been used to in the past before the server upgrades).
I'd just like to thank the devs for listening to the player base on this issue and moving quickly to resolve it. I think the attentiveness of the devs to player concerns (see also, some of the recent changes to old powersets, new powersets, new in'game QoL issues, etc, etc....) really exemplifies a new life for the CoX universe.
This is the only MMO I've ever played, so I didn't realize that the problems encountered over the weekend on Freedom were par for the course for other MMO's.
This thread is Still Here?
(Link is safe for Rose ^-^)
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no, you rocketed past ddx. you got LIGHTHOUSE -evil musak-
- DDH_Hamenopi
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OMG--- remind me never EVER to click one of your links again tig... OMG... all i can say is ... ow
- _Rose_
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@Tiglath-Pileser
Freedom with 50% more /JRanger:
Nurse Goodbody Emp/Rad
Son Of Yow Pain Fir/Kin
&
--------->Virture:
American Decoy Ill/Rad
New Global: @American Decoy
�You are hereby promoted to Tiglath_Pilesest� - Squez
�no, you rocketed past ddx. you got LIGHTHOUSE -evil musak-� - DDH_Hamenopi
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(Link is safe for Rose ^-^)
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no, you rocketed past ddx. you got LIGHTHOUSE -evil musak-
- DDH_Hamenopi
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OMG--- remind me never EVER to click one of your links again tig... OMG... all i can say is ... ow
- _Rose_
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@Tiglath-Pileser
Freedom with 50% more /JRanger:
Nurse Goodbody Emp/Rad
Son Of Yow Pain Fir/Kin
&
--------->Virture:
American Decoy Ill/Rad
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Im laughing really hard at your sig tiggy... what the heck is VIRTURE?
"I don't wonda what Rose is like in RL, I just imagine she is a catgurl an' wish I could cyb0r wit her. "
- the legendary J-man
Silence!!! I kill you!
For some strange reason (a forum bug, or the fact that you never saw this back in Feb when I posted this) the forum has automatically decided to pull up my past posts as recent work.
Funny, back in Oct, I was necroing threads, now the threads are necroing me.
Why, Virture is obviously a bunch of kangoros fighting a crazy white guy with a cool sword.
(Thank Googlre.com!!)
New Global: @American Decoy
�You are hereby promoted to Tiglath_Pilesest� - Squez
�no, you rocketed past ddx. you got LIGHTHOUSE -evil musak-� - DDH_Hamenopi
Kangaroos?
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Funny, same problem a year later. Lazyness.
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Funny, same problem a year later. Lazyness.
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Which is why everyone but YOU was prepared fer it.
Don't let me catch you slippin.
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Funny, same problem a year later. Lazyness.
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Which is why everyone but YOU was prepared fer it.
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HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! BURRRRRRRN!
See, when _I_ start a thread, it's news.
I guess the reason why this thread survived the forum flushes was because of the activity that first weekend... great testimony to a poor design for a "play benefit" weekend.
It's 8:15am, I woke up an hour early cuz my iPod doesn't know what 9am means, and I kept waking up last night cuz I could swear that terrorists were about to attack NYC via the transit system. You better believe I'm freakin' ornery this morning.
/leaves for the hotel's "continental breakfast" - which is a fancy way of saying "we have wonder bread and country crock and Nescafe"
@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE
Turg Fiction: Ghost in the Machine Acts III & IV coming 2012!
Turg Fiction: IX is now LIVE on Architect Entertainment!
Hmm...the global channel stuff was annoying, but I only noticed it on Saturday.
Sorry some of yall couldn't get in to play when ya wanted...but I don't think it's something to really get mad over. I missed most of the weekend myself.
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A final thought, and I'm hoping this is the last post in this thread.
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You HOPE. The thread aint dead until Tig puts his useless thread-dying remarks.
I get the last wordunless LH locks me out.
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no, you rocketed past ddx. you got LIGHTHOUSE -evil musak-
-DDH_Hamenopi
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OMG--- remind me never EVER to click one of your links again tig... OMG... all i can say is ... ow
- _Rose_
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@Tiglath-Pileser
Freedom with 50% more /JRanger:
Nurse Goodbody Emp/Rad
Son Of Yow Pain Fir/Kin
&
--------->Virture:
American Decoy Ill/Rad
New Global: @American Decoy
�You are hereby promoted to Tiglath_Pilesest� - Squez
�no, you rocketed past ddx. you got LIGHTHOUSE -evil musak-� - DDH_Hamenopi