It wasn't listed in a particularly obvious announcement.
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Originally Posted by Hit Streak
Captain Mako Week kicks off a Double XP weekend from 8:00 AM CDT on Friday August 10 through 8:00 AM CDT on Monday, August 13 and continues throughout the week with in-game invasions and more! Join us in Paragon City and show Captain Mako who tops the food chain!
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See Sharks: The Dolphin's Smiling Cousin. At the bottom:
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| Captain Mako Week kicks off a Double XP weekend from 8:00 AM CDT on Friday August 10 through 8:00 AM CDT on Monday, August 13 and continues throughout the week with in-game invasions and more! Join us in Paragon City and show Captain Mako who tops the food chain! |
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Thank you!
So, in a case like this, how would I have found it using the advanced search?
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They also probably Twittered something during their latest TwitchTV Coffee Talk about their Facebook page having an announcement or something....
I've ranted about it before, but we've reached a saturation point for trendy communiques and it's getting a little ridiculous. Now they're burying the news deep within the forum pages and they can't even mention it in the title so Google can find it.
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I just did a search on "Double xp" (including quotes) and limited to the last month. The first thread that pops is this one, two of the next three include info on it.|
Originally Posted by NeoSporin
Thank you!
So, in a case like this, how would I have found it using the advanced search? |
edit: Setting it to show posts instead of threads probably would have been more accurate.
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Originally Posted by NeoSporin
Thank you!
So, in a case like this, how would I have found it using the advanced search? |
Someone here pointed out that a good way to search these forums is with Google and "site: board.cityofheroes.com" plus "search word(s)" which usually works for me.
Except this time. See above rant.
"But it wasn't anything some purples and oranges and lots of screaming in fear couldn't handle." -- Werner
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Ah, thanks! It was probably the 'posts vs. threads' that tripped me up.|
Originally Posted by StarGeek
I just did a search on "Double xp" (including quotes) and limited to the last month. The first thread that pops is this one, two of the next three include info on it.
edit: Setting it to show posts instead of threads probably would have been more accurate. |
Thanks again!
"The one thing that can stop a full team of MasterMinds dead in its tracks... a doorway!" --Frogfather
You can also narrow it down to a specific forum or forum section if you are looking for something specific.
For example, if it's something I know I saw in Announcements, I'll narrow it down to that forum section by clicking on it on the Advanced Search page.
Or in the alternative, I'd click on the News, Events & Announcements section in that list to get results from the Announcements and the Discussions sections.
I've seldom had to use Google to search these forums effectively. I had more trouble with the search on the old UBB forums than I have on these vBulletin forums.
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The big thing to know is the search auto-discards three or less letter words.
Such as "DXP"
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I could have swore there was a double xp weekend coming up soon. I think it might be the weekend of the 10th of August, but for the life of me I can't find the announcement for it here on the boards.
I looked up under Announcements, News, Events & Announcement Discussion, Dev Digest, Community Digest, and Developers' Corner then I tried doing an advanced search for 'double xp' one month or sooner and turned up a boat load of posts, none of which had 'double xp' in them.
If there is not a double xp weekend coming up, thats ok.
If there is one, how do I go about finding a post about it here on the boards?
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