Reminder Double XP Weekend starting 31/07/09
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Posted on: 2009-07-16 22:21 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
hmm makes a differetce from previous DX wk-ends they usually finihs at 08:59 Monday morning
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hmm makes a differetce from previous DX wk-ends they usually finihs at 08:59 Monday morning
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Thought they were usually scheduled to end at c. midnight but in practice carried on until morning maintenance (c.08:00). Certainly been scheduled to run up to the end of Sunday, so this one looks to be scheduled for a shorter duration than previous dxps.
Of course, it may still run until the maintenance slot on Monday morning...
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I hope so. Turning it off at "prime time" seems a bit daft...
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They have done this the last 2 times aswell. Indeed a very bad idea to turn it off during primetime, but hey, it's not like they're actually going to listen and put it back to ending on monday morning.
It's probably based on US timings now. No-one wants to stay in the NCWest office until 5 in the morning to turn it off for us so we have to go with when they want to go home.
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More than likely, Dante. They could just leave it until they come in during the morning, but... probably not.
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Further to the MotD that was deployed ingame a couple of weeks ago, please be aware that the next Double XP Weekend will be on in 2 weeks:
Start: Friday, 31 July 2009, at 8:59 a.m. British Summer Time/9:59 a.m. Central European Summer Time
Finish: Sunday, 2 August 2009, 8:59 p.m. BST/9:59 p.m. CEST
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Pretty please Extend the finishing time till at least midnight on the Sunday 9pm is just when the servers seem to get busy.
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Further to the MotD that was deployed ingame a couple of weeks ago, please be aware that the next Double XP Weekend will be on in 2 weeks:
Start: Friday, 31 July 2009, at 8:59 a.m. British Summer Time/9:59 a.m. Central European Summer Time
Finish: Sunday, 2 August 2009, 8:59 p.m. BST/9:59 p.m. CEST
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Pretty please Extend the finishing time till at least midnight on the Sunday 9pm is just when the servers seem to get busy.
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I'd be amazed if they actually stopped it at 9pm Sunday. It would be the height of stupidity.
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It's probably based on US timings now. No-one wants to stay in the NCWest office until 5 in the morning to turn it off for us so we have to go with when they want to go home.
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Forgive me if I'm wrong (timezones aren't my strong suit), but the west coast of the US is about 8 hours behind the UK. So finishing it at 9pm UK time means they are finishing it at what? 1pm US west coast time on Sunday? Not a long weekend if thats the case.
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(timezones aren't my strong suit)
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Clearly not mine either...
IIRC from phoning friends in the States, 8am BST, which is when some DXP weekends have ended in the past is sometime in the small hours for our American cousins. So I guess what I was saying is that it wouldn't be during office hours for them.
Either way, I'm hoping that it does run on till the next morning. Ending it at 9pm over here would seem rather silly.
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I have always remembered them saying a DXP weekend will finish at 9:00pm on a Sunday and it never has. Its always been something like 3:00am on the Monday or 7-8am on the morning.
Ok, might be a bit different these days but I can just see it happening as it has before.
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Ending it at 9pm over here would seem rather silly.
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Agreed
It always ends on the maintenance window of the following Monday. Always has and always will be. Just like it did for the last Rikti invasion event.
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Well, new forums are doing ok. But the servers seem to be absolutely melting under the strain of double xp weekend. Mapservered constantly, lag, disconnects. First time I've really tried to play in like 3 months. I am making sad panda face at you, ncsoft.
It's too bad the servers went down as well. This is the first time I've had a chance at a double XP weekend, and I couldn't even log on. Is that par for the course here, or just bad luck?
Just tried again two hours after the start of the problems, and still can't get on. I have to admit, this feels an awful lot like a bait-and-switch: "You can earn double experience this weekend! Too bad you can't play!" I am extremely disappointed; I've only been playing a couple of months, but if this is the kind of thing I can expect, I don't know if I'll want to continue my subscription...
Phaedrus, this is not the norm. Especially for Protector and Champion to be the ones having so much trouble that they have to come down. Had it been one of the two most populated servers, maybe, but I just avoid Freedom and Virtue on general principal. I'd rather play on a slightly less populated server and not take a chance on any issues for times like this.
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And night number 2 of double xp weekend... and constant mapserves, 20 minute load-in at sign on... more mapserves.
Thanks for NOTHING ncsoft.
I haven't had any problems all weekend. I'm actually surprised at how lag-free it's been. I haven't even seen Freedom or Virtue get above yellow, much less grayed out like previous dbl xp weekends. Doesn't seem like a good sign.
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Ya i noticed that to it seemed very unusual to me
Worst Double Xp Weekend Ever.
We used to look forward to these events. now since you have launched AE its double XP everyday. I cant believe they didnt shut AE down for this event. But what ever i expected that.
Lag, Mapserve, Out right crashing, long friggen load times.
I have an idea for the DEV's..
How about for one month, take 5 bucks out of the monthly fee you get from us, put it in a jar on posi's desk.
At the end of the 30 day period you take that money and hire some server admins, network admins, and hell why not even a programmer or two that can fix the issues before you burden us even further with i16.
Wait they dont listen to us do they?
Further to the MotD that was deployed ingame a couple of weeks ago, please be aware that the next Double XP Weekend will be on in 2 weeks:
Start: Friday, 31 July 2009, at 8:59 a.m. British Summer Time/9:59 a.m. Central European Summer Time
Finish: Sunday, 2 August 2009, 8:59 p.m. BST/9:59 p.m. CEST
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