Shared 50% XP Power bug

Me and my friend were playing two of our characters in RWZ a few days ago. I purchased the "Shared 50% XP (8 hours)" power from the market and cast the power (the temp after you activate the main power) on his character. After about two hours his power disappeared and he was no longer getting the 50% bonus.

This happened two other times with my same friend, but I did not petition because there was a day lapse in between (ie I gave him the power one day we logged out and he logged in the next and told me it was gone). That's when I paid close attetion to the third time I purchased this power.

I petitioned and I get a message saying that the power was in my powertray and I never cast the power on my friend. I logged back in to check, the only power in my tray remotely similar was the "Experienced" power (the vet one). I message the GM back to explain the issue or error rather in mistaken what I had noticed. And they did not resolve the issue.

Anyone else had a similar issue with this power? The 8 hour duration specifically...

i believe the xp boosters are supposed to only count in game time, not realtime, so your friends boost expiring while logged out is a bug in itself prolly (unless the 50% shared boost was supposed to work differently, but i do not think that is the case)

Yes, that is correct in-game time. I told him to petition that as well. He said he did and did not get a response, but he probably could have checked the wrong email too.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=289888

This has already been reported here and I posted a screen shot to show that it is in fact suppose to last in-game time and not real time. A red name posted and said they couldn't reproduce the problem and asked for more information on how to reproduce it. It seems to me like this is becoming a problem and the devs need to check into again.

I've never purchased xp boosters of any kind from the paragon market and don't plan to. I have over 100 xp boosters from super packs left still.

Although 1 concern I do have with the shared xp boosters is that lately I've been seeing players in the help channel advertising (not too often, about 1 or twice every day or two) that they will use the booster on another player for a price and also other players in help saying they will pay to have an xp booster used on them. Saw 1 person yesterday in Atlas Park broadcast advertise for 100 mill inf for the 8 hour shared xp and then a minute later dropped the price down to 75 million. I think this could be potentially used as a scam, i.e., the seller demands the inf up front then logs out after accepting the money.

Personally I think these shared xp boosters were a major fail.

Thank goodness some else had the issue as well. I thought it was just me who had the first "run-in" about this power.

EDIT: Thats the friend of mine I referenced "De_monique"

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Although 1 concern I do have with the shared xp boosters is that lately I've been seeing players in the help channel advertising (not too often, about 1 or twice every day or two) that they will use the booster on another player for a price and also other players in help saying they will pay to have an xp booster used on them. Saw 1 person yesterday in Atlas Park broadcast advertise for 100 mill inf for the 8 hour shared xp and then a minute later dropped the price down to 75 million. I think this could be potentially used as a scam, i.e., the seller demands the inf up front then logs out after accepting the money. Personally I think these shared xp boosters were a major fail.

I wish I would be that silly to go for that... /sarcasm

I also had this issue with a 4hour booster. Just letting you know: you aren't alone.