Quite disappointed

Was anyone else as disappointed with the outcome of this 2xp weekend as I was? Server populations were quite low (I never saw freedom or virtue over yellow). Freedom at least, was down saturday morning, and whatever problem they were supposed to fix during maintenance, didn't get fixed. Freedom was incredibly laggy, and people were mapserving left and right the whole weekend. I was also really counting on people coming out of AE and playing this weekend as well, but since AE was giving 2xp too, everyone was just farming more than ever. Usually, I'm very psyched about 2xp weekends, but this one just didn't feel the same.

Freedom was pretty solid for me actually... not terribly laggy, only got mapserved once the whole weekend and no trouble getting back in.

I was pleasntly surprised that freedom didn't get full and counted that as an actual GOOD thing.

I actually don't like double XP weekends. After five years playing, I just really don't care about experience. I stopped playing to get levels a long time ago, and in my experience, people are more rude and obnoxious during those weekends. I only logged in to collect some info for the wiki, and stayed hidden the whole time.

As unpopular an idea as it might sound, I really wish they'd do away with double XP weekends. I think a fun replacement would be to have dev, reps, and GMs log in as signature characters over the course of the weekend and have parties, Q&A sessions, PvP events, contests, run missions with player teams, etc. THAT I would get excited about.

I managed to drag TWO teams out of the AE to do real missions! Maybe three if I remember right.

I think it's been a fine weekend!

For whatever reason, this 2XP event seemed much less populated to me. Played at many different times on Sat and Sun, and never experienced the populations that I had seen with prior 2XP events.

I've only been playing this toon a week and I hit 30 last night. I rather enjoyed having a boost of xp this weekend.

I had fun. Ran with friends, made inf, etc.

Tony, why not try to be a dev since you love 'em so much? lol. Personally, hanging with a dev doesn't sound as fun as killing stuff to me. Different strokes, i guess.

Sorry Firespray, I had a great time.

Got my first level 50 hero.
Did a couple of taskforces. (Positron and Imperious)

Earned a bunch of influence and furthermore, got to team with some good people, had some fun and finished it off by getting my Bonecrusher and Kill Skuls badges.

I enjoyed the 2XP weekend - did a couple of ITFs, so there was the usual lag on the 3rd mission, but didn't notice any unusal lag anywhere else.

Just got the game back this last friday (boosted xp was a coincidence) and when I first got on Freedom it was near unplayable. Teams I joined as I checked out my old alts all disbanded after one mission because they couldn't really play. Loading onto the server and switching characters took a long time and costumes did not load, just black blanks of my characters standing there at the selection screen.

This improved dramatically for me after the downtime and it was quite playable. I even bought the magic booster and was logging in and out and remaking a few lowbies before I settled on one to play for a while, with no connection issues at all.

The indicators do not reflect population, they show server load. So Freedom and Virtue being at yellow doesn't mean there were less or more people on the server than any given time. To know how many people are on you should try /search.

i too was quite disappointed in this weekend. found 1 team the entire weekend. mostly soloed. tried all the famaliar ways to get a team going noone wanted to come out of AE. and i dont go in so it made for a boring weekend but its over now and i can get back to reg mishs with a good team.

I found plenty of teams outside of AE and ran two TFs Sunday night, so no, your experience is not the norm

And yes, this was on Virtue.

I had a great time. Didn't reach my goal of getting a level 50 villain on my second account, but I got her to 44 so it was a good run. I also got a bunch of lowbies to the magic levels of 14 and 22, and I didn't have any problems with connection on Virtue until late last night, when it was bedtime for me anyway.

I also had a great time this weekend. I play at off-peak hours, so I mostly solo, and especially in the upper levels when EBs feature in many story arcs my toons often get stuck. Got two of my toons moving again, and had no problems with teams at any time, so it was a good time.