Discussion: Double XP Weekend and Account Reactivation
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Posted on: 2009-09-29 10:36 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
It is supposed to start at noon EST.
Looks like an early start to 2XP. I am predicting we will not have any problems getting on to any servers. Seems like this game is really hurting for numbers right now. I hope I'm wrong but the player pop. was at an all time low (in my 21 months here).
Double XP is not working for AE.
It's a known bug.
Not a priority issue.
le' sigh.
Ignoring anyone is a mistake. You might miss something viral to your cause.
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The MOTD basicly says sorry it wont work for the weekend. |
Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
Double XP is not working for AE.
It's a known bug. Not a priority issue. le' sigh. |
I personally have to feel this isnt a bug. They would have tested the double xp, and it would have come up in time to fix it. It worked perfectly well last time around. And personally my expectations would be that if you broke it, and there is an event like this, no one goes home until its fixed. We all have or have had jobs with insane deadlines, had to make accomodations in our private lives for work, i see no reason why these devs should be any different. If they knew it wasnt working, guess were pulling an alnighter to get it fixed would have been my response. That is if it was truely and accident.
Now if it wasnt, and it was planned but i was to chicken **** to say this is how i wanted it, I would have snuck a message into the MOTD late at night that said it wont work, then i would have went home and enjoyed my weekend. Wonder what it seems like is going on here?
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You have no idea how glad this makes me feel. Because people will just maybe have to perhaps actually 'play' instead of door sit in an AE mission.|
Originally Posted by QuiJon
The MOTD basicly says sorry it wont work for the weekend.
I personally have to feel this isnt a bug. They would have tested the double xp, and it would have come up in time to fix it. It worked perfectly well last time around. And personally my expectations would be that if you broke it, and there is an event like this, no one goes home until its fixed. We all have or have had jobs with insane deadlines, had to make accomodations in our private lives for work, i see no reason why these devs should be any different. If they knew it wasnt working, guess were pulling an alnighter to get it fixed would have been my response. That is if it was truely and accident. Now if it wasnt, and it was planned but i was to chicken **** to say this is how i wanted it, I would have snuck a message into the MOTD late at night that said it wont work, then i would have went home and enjoyed my weekend. Wonder what it seems like is going on here? |
Also some of the AE babies just might find a bigger game out there than atlas park and the AE building. So for me it is WAI.
Rant over.
Patiently waiting for my US reactivation so I can compare EU/NA performance with my rubbish wireless setup.
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I cant believe you are scolding people for useing something in a video game. Gloating doesnt become you.|
Originally Posted by Mr ?
You have no idea how glad this makes me feel. Because people will just maybe have to perhaps actually 'play' instead of door sit in an AE mission.
Also some of the AE babies just might find a bigger game out there than atlas park and the AE building. So for me it is WAI. Rant over. Patiently waiting for my US reactivation so I can compare EU/NA performance with my rubbish wireless setup. |
I dont think its intentional. I think its a bug thats going to be neglected, probably because the team might be wiped out or some other reasonable..... reason...
anyways: le' sigh.
Maybe I just eat too many carrots.
Ignoring anyone is a mistake. You might miss something viral to your cause.
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Who says that this would upset anyone just wanting to door sit? Who says that was my plans? Maybe it upsets me because my best opprotunity to earn xp or influ was to use the AE. Maybe its upsetting because i could have taken the week to make sure that some of my best capable villians or heroes bad more profitable missions to use then they have right now.|
Originally Posted by Mr ?
You have no idea how glad this makes me feel. Because people will just maybe have to perhaps actually 'play' instead of door sit in an AE mission.
Also some of the AE babies just might find a bigger game out there than atlas park and the AE building. So for me it is WAI. Rant over. Patiently waiting for my US reactivation so I can compare EU/NA performance with my rubbish wireless setup. |
Double XP weekends have always been about farming. Its prettymuch the reason why people look forward to them. Be it farming radio missions, farming TFs all weekend or yes farming and door sitting.
Mistake or not, the lateness of this announcment that atleast should have been warned to customers ASAP is enough to make alot of players plans, no matter if you agree with them or not, have now been totally wasted. There is really no reason for me to spend any more time playing this weekend then i would have normally. So for me and many others this is a fail.
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Originally Posted by QuiJon
Double XP weekends have always been about farming. |
cause you know everything ...
I think AE should give double reward too but what you said is just wrong, some people play during doubleXP weekend because it gives doubleXP and they level faster, and that's it.
better xp/time ratio. no farming involved. no doorsit involved.
I'm more excited about reactivation than x2 xp. Using aan old second account I was able to clean up my main account and transfer new toons into my sg. Deleted rarely played 50's to make room for newer builds. Might play some but I also work the weekends so 2xp doesn't really do much here.
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It's likely a bug where IF DXP were implemented in the AE that it might also UNDO the recent AE/XP changes thus restoring all the boss only farm missions to their full value before ish 16.
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Originally Posted by QuiJon
The MOTD basicly says sorry it wont work for the weekend.
I personally have to feel this isnt a bug. They would have tested the double xp, and it would have come up in time to fix it. It worked perfectly well last time around. And personally my expectations would be that if you broke it, and there is an event like this, no one goes home until its fixed. We all have or have had jobs with insane deadlines, had to make accomodations in our private lives for work, i see no reason why these devs should be any different. If they knew it wasnt working, guess were pulling an alnighter to get it fixed would have been my response. That is if it was truely and accident. Now if it wasnt, and it was planned but i was to chicken **** to say this is how i wanted it, I would have snuck a message into the MOTD late at night that said it wont work, then i would have went home and enjoyed my weekend. Wonder what it seems like is going on here? |
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This may have been mentioned by others, but what I'd really like to see is a Double XP WEEK. Preferably something starting on a Wednesday and ending the following Wednesday.
There are those of us who have to work on weekends, and we never really get to participate in Double XP the way everyone else does! 
By extending Double XP to a full week, we would be able to join in on the fun. By starting and ending on a Wednesday (or any other weekday, for that matter), the Double XP period would still bracket a weekend, but the additional days would guarantee that "we-who-have-our-days-off-midweek" would be able to spend at least one or two full days playing, the way "those-who-have-weekends-off" can right now.
While I appreciate that the current Double XP Weekend starts on a Thursday and ends on a Sunday (for about three-and-a-half days total), my schedule is such that I'm really only going to be able to grind out XP for half a day at most. 
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TargetOne
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How bout no?! I work during the week and I am not around on the weekend so I think we should have 2XP year myabe then I can login on one day....
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Originally Posted by TargetOne
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This may have been mentioned by others, but what I'd really like to see is a Double XP WEEK. Preferably something starting on a Wednesday and ending the following Wednesday. There are those of us who have to work on weekends, and we never really get to participate in Double XP the way everyone else does! By extending Double XP to a full week, we would be able to join in on the fun. By starting and ending on a Wednesday (or any other weekday, for that matter), the Double XP period would still bracket a weekend, but the additional days would guarantee that "we-who-have-our-days-off-midweek" would be able to spend at least one or two full days playing, the way "those-who-have-weekends-off" can right now.While I appreciate that the current Double XP Weekend starts on a Thursday and ends on a Sunday (for about three-and-a-half days total), my schedule is such that I'm really only going to be able to grind out XP for half a day at most. </rant> |
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I think this is a great idea and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Combining these two things gives everyone a chance to taste the changes made with i16, and if they like them keep their accounts going afterwards. Great thinking! The downside... getting mapservered every 5 minutes gives old AND new players bad impressions of the game. I'd like to mention these aren't standard "lag mapservers", these are hard disconnects. They don't go away after a time (atleast for me) and always result in you getting booted. I'm sure NCSoft will respond that it is a problem with the connection on my end, the problem with that logic is it has happened to entire teams I was on at the same time. Something is very wrong here and you guys should seriously look into getting it fixed.
EDIT: I just re-logged in after posting this and within 30 seconds was mapservered right back out again. This is __EXTREMELY__ frustrating and annoying.
EDIT2: Asking on the level 50 global channel, which has many many people on it, it seems there are quite a few also experiencing mapservers, lags and rubberbanding. Someone else in my SG is getting the constant hard drops like I am as well. It may be worse for me because I am on a wifi connection and wireless doesn't seem to handle lost packets very well.
EDIT3: I just PM'd Dark Watcher about this issue with the following: "Hi, sorry to bother you but someone on one of my global channels said you're watching the server performance during the 2x. I just wanted to see if you could take a look at Guardian. There are atleast 3 people being affected by constant random disconnects. Myself (@Torrent, @Godlike), an SG mate of mine (@Pronator, @Miosane) and someone from the Guardian global channel (@Ralas). Others on the Level 50 global channel have mentioned getting mapservers and rubberbanding (I didn't make note of global names). Could you please look into this? It's been happening to me since yesterday but has been much worse the past few hours. Thanks."
EDIT4: Two days later and the problems are still going on. Apparently people don't check their PMs. SG mate of mine is still also having issues, just as often as I am. I play for 15 minutes, drop. Relog, play 20 more minutes, drop. Relog, play 2 minutes, drop. Relog, play 45 minutes, drop. It is very very irritating and making me not want to play this game even if it is FREE to do so right now! Which is pretty sad. There are strange glitches happening all over in the game, from the market to crafting (making items and having the recipes or salvages not disappear) to power recharge displays sticking. I don't know if it's from lag or the game trying to do too much crap all at once (read: QUIT ADDING MORE FEATURES, they slow everything down). Does anything in CoH work right anymore?
EDIT5: Well the event is over now for the most part. I had problems staying connected the entire duration of it. I ended up being mapserver dumped and having to relog approximately 500-600 times over the 4 or 5 days, most of the time unable to complete one mission without getting booted. Talk about annoying and frustrating as hell. I sent PMs to Dark Watcher and Positron both regarding the issue and apparently I'm the only one affected. Except I know for a fact that that isn't true, because there were atleast 3 other people on the Guardian channel that reported similar issues. I felt like I was trying to fight against the mapserver (+4 level AV, eh?) just to be able to play the damn game. If this is the "CoH experience" as it should be now, I very likely won't be paying to turn my accounts back on again. If I wanted to pay to be frustrated I'd be dating instead of playing games.
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Originally Posted by _Starbird_
cause you know everything ...
I think AE should give double reward too but what you said is just wrong, some people play during doubleXP weekend because it gives doubleXP and they level faster, and that's it. better xp/time ratio. no farming involved. no doorsit involved. |
And trust me i have gone through this with many other players. Most people define farming or PLing as seeking a means to earn more profit or rewards then the normal time invested would allow for. I think double xp qualifies under that.
If i log on because i can team and run missions and level fast, or log on to play the AE solo because i level faster, its the same difference, i am looking forward to logging in to gain more then i normally wouldhave been able to.
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Even if that was the case, which i believe it isnt, i dont feel that making sure to keep the customer happy would mean that it was the most terrible thing in the world if for 3.5 days that the changes were rolled back. You stil have the SSK system and difficulty sliders in place so that the boss farms at +7 wont happen again. And it would roll back on monday morning. So personally i would be even more upset if this was the reasoning behind it.
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Originally Posted by Nericus
It's likely a bug where IF DXP were implemented in the AE that it might also UNDO the recent AE/XP changes thus restoring all the boss only farm missions to their full value before ish 16.
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And now it's extended for Monday too! <jumps up and downin pure glee> Poor Cape DJ's though........
Maybe they cut it off? Don't know about anyone else, but my wife and I saw no doubling in experience nor prestige on Friday. What gives?
To clarify, we played the last double xp weekend and got two of her characters leveled up from 24 to 25 and 26, which was one level for one and two levels for the other. Friday we played one of them again for the same amount of time as before, trying to reach 27, but all she got was 3 bubbles. Also, we were consistently getting odd-number prestige rewards. That never happened last time. Now either they reward fractional prestige (oh WoW, how stupid would fractional rewards be?), or the prestige isn't doubling.
And no, we saw the warning, so we avoided MA like the plague.
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Cobalt Blue Knight level 32 Scrapper on Guardian
Drone Keeper level 32 MM on Champion
Glacier Force level 28 Tanker on Justice
and 7 nearly full servers of alts waiting their turns.
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Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
I cant believe you are scolding people for useing something in a video game. Gloating doesnt become you.
I dont think its intentional. I think its a bug thats going to be neglected, probably because the team might be wiped out or some other reasonable..... reason... anyways: le' sigh. Maybe I just eat too many carrots. |
Believe me, I am not gloating, but having met a few of these people in game, I stand by my post, How you play the game is up to you, but there is a much bigger game out there, outside of AP and I know you and others have been in game long enough to realize this.
not sure how to reactivate for free its still asking for $$$
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Saw that you weren't running MA. So I've excised this portion. Read on for further aimless rambling about what you were seeing.|
Originally Posted by ChainedBulldog
Maybe they cut it off? Don't know about anyone else, but my wife and I saw no doubling in experience nor prestige on Friday. What gives?
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| To clarify, we played the last double xp weekend and got two of her characters leveled up from 24 to 25 and 26, which was one level for one and two levels for the other. Friday we played one of them again for the same amount of time as before, trying to reach 27, but all she got was 3 bubbles. |
If you were, try cranking up the mob size (number of heroes) you're equivallent to. You'll see larger mobs and more XP. Also, maybe bump the difficulty (base is +0, try +1). Even soloing, I've been making XP hand over fist. On one of my level-pacted characters, soloing, I made about 3 levels (couldn't stop myself from badge-*******). On another level pacted toon that's strictly levelling-oriented (mainly because it's a support character that solos badly), with a bit of teaming I went from 15 to 26. Took a Scrapper I hadn't really touched since last Halloween from 31 to 34 in about 3 hours on an RWZ "Save the World" mission set to +3x8 at level 50. Would have gotten further, but we had a bunch of lowbies and didn't QUITE have the damage output to finish off Nemesis through all the ambushes. Also, took a fresh Ice tank from Outbreak to level 10 in about 2 hours today. Would probably make more XP if I wanted to, but I've been marketeering this weekend too.
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| Also, we were consistently getting odd-number prestige rewards. That never happened last time. Now either they reward fractional prestige (oh WoW, how stupid would fractional rewards be?), or the prestige isn't doubling. |
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Actually no. Remember, the servers are MUCH beefier now than some of the previous DXPWs. Stuff that'd have locked out a server now show as red or even yellow.|
Originally Posted by TheJazMan
Looks like an early start to 2XP. I am predicting we will not have any problems getting on to any servers. Seems like this game is really hurting for numbers right now. I hope I'm wrong but the player pop. was at an all time low (in my 21 months here).
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Virtue was showing yellow for a while this weekend and had several instances of PI.
Freedom wasn't showing yellow but it was also showing multiple zone instances.
Protector was seeing a large increase in population as a bunch of old players came back for the reactivation.
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Well it didn't seem like it was too busy or as busy as I remember. But the numbers were the highest I have seen them since August (based on server loads).
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Actually no. Remember, the servers are MUCH beefier now than some of the previous DXPWs. Stuff that'd have locked out a server now show as red or even yellow.
Virtue was showing yellow for a while this weekend and had several instances of PI. Freedom wasn't showing yellow but it was also showing multiple zone instances. Protector was seeing a large increase in population as a bunch of old players came back for the reactivation. |
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Did you just try logging into the game? It sounds like you're trying to do something with your actual account, which isn't necessary. Just launch the game and log in.
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Originally Posted by PUNKROCK
not sure how to reactivate for free its still asking for $$$
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Original post updated, yet again. I'm not sure if the whole "one post per redname post" applies on this thread or not. Color me very unimpressed with i16, debating ever reactivating my accounts again once this freebie ends. They added nice new features and now nothing else works. Constant lag and random disconnects must be something they added to balance the whole risk versus reward thing, right? Or they might not have anticipated the extra network data of everyone sending everyone else their custom power color data, go go internal network traffic overload!
The game sure is pretty now, I wish I could actually... you know... play it.
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