Double XP weekend coming, July 21-23

[Creole Ned]

Quoth the ShackNews (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/42894):

For all you City of Heroes and City of Villains players out there, NCSoft let us know that there will be a "Double XP Weekend" soon. From 11AM CST on Friday, July 21 until 9PM CST Sunday, July 23, everything you do in the game will get you twice the usual XP. According to NCSoft, the weekend "will give players the opportunity to level up their characters and gain access to many of the new features available in both City of Heroes and City of Villains".
Based on how it works on the test server, influence/infamy and prestige will also be doubled. A good time to level up those lowbies.

[jackrabbit]

I fully endorse the concept of double XP days.

[Creole Ned]

Predictably, people are complaining about this. Yes, complaining about double XP. Here's one player's take on it:

You've got to be [censored] kidding me.


What possible purpose does this serve? Was anyone really having a PROBLEM getting enough XP in the first place?

If they're trying to 'make something up to us', how about something that, you know, isn't in abundant supply in the first place, like another freespec??

I would seriously rather have nothing than this, I outlevel my arcs fast enough as it is.

[Creole Ned]

Scratch that, this little missive is even better:

Honestly, I'd rather not mess with experience. Sure, a day ago I was desperate enough to level up and get some frikkin' missions, but that's smallminded thinking in a bind.

What purpuse does this serve, really? To make people level up faster? To do what? Run out of content faster? It seems very counter-productive to a game that prides itself on the journey to hotwire its experience system in such a way. And, as we noticed with the "just log in and get a level 40 NOW" event on Test, people will froth at the mouth and turn this assumedly kind gesture into an absurd excession.

I don't think it's needed at all. Furthermore, I think it will do more harm than good. Shortcuts like this only serve to drive people nuts, and that's a picture I really don't want to see. We've seen glimpses of this when massively rewarding exploits were found in the past, and we've seen groutesc excessions when those were schedualed to be closed in a short amount of time as people scrambled to abuse every last second of it. We saw the Winter Lord event, we saw Wolf, Dreck, then Barakuda farming, we saw Karken farming, we saw what the Test Recluse's Victory event did.

A double experience event, which I rather doubt is really coming, would be little more than a legalised version of the above, but even better as it's more streamlined and less restrictive, AND stackable with current "uber XP" methods. It's not only counter-productive and counter intuitive, it seems outright stupid to do something like this, and I'm afraid the game will become a bad place to be for a while after this is over, and especially while it's in effect. People have shown they have no concept of measure, so I cannot hope to expect any moderation in the "use" of such an event, were it implemented. I just don't trust people to NOT ruin a good thing.

[Tai]

shoot those kids

[Circuit]

People would complain if the game came with free chocolate and 100 dollar bills.

[Creole Ned]

"I'm allergic to chocolate and these $100 bills are wrinkled. Thanks a lot, devs!:fume: :fume: :fume: "


(I just wanted to use that smiley, really)

[Sir Lucius]

They should just make all out double XP servers.

Looking forward to doing some major powerleveling that weekend :)

[Q]

I like double XP.

[Creole Ned]

The start and end times have been rejiggered a bit and are now:

Start: Friday, July 21st at 9am PST / 12pm EST
Finish: Sunday, July 23rd, 8:59pm PST / 11:59pm EST

[Creole Ned]

Free/mad/double XP is now live as of this morning's maintenance.

You also get double inf, prestige and pie!

[Q]

mmm, pie.

[Creole Ned]

They also gave out 20,000 prestige for every SG member, so the Martian Cartel now has over 1.3 million prestige and Champions of Mastery has about 970,000.

[Creole Ned]

I officially declare Double XP weekend good!

And it looks like I'm not alone, as all servers went yellow rather early today. EDIT: Freedom actually went red (http://img1.yoxio.com/img/247865.jpg) for a time today (heavy load). I don't remember that happening since they upgraded the servers. People apparently really like double XP.

The Operative Renault SF is rolling along and a number of defeats along the way have barely dented our progress. Plus Orion joined in and already has his li'l (big) brute Immensus up to level 7.

[FoeKilla]

Plus Orion joined in and already has his li'l (big) brute Immensus up to level 11.

last I saw...

[Creole Ned]

Level 15 now.

I shall be greedily partaking of the remainder of this event later today.

[Paladin]

I'm on. No one curently showing in the SG as online. I'm switching over to Brass Monkeybot. Not sure if he's in the SG yet or not, so if you don't see him on the list, send an invite.

[Sir Lucius]

I started a character on the goon server last week, and it is now level 36.

Thanks double xp weekend!

[Fitty]

I started a character on the goon server last week, and it is now level 36.

Thanks double xp weekend!

I hate you for not playing any double xp weekend with me :mad:

[Creole Ned]

Carl the Bat went from 27 to 31 over the weekend, got five +3 SOs from the SF and has banked over a million infamy. All that and he did not outlevel any of his contacts. I also got two lowbies up to 12-14 and confirmed that people don't understand what a kinetics defender does on the hero side.

Except for the last bit, a pretty good weekend overall. :thumbup:

[bridude]

I can't belive I forgot. I've been too damn busy. :(

[Creole Ned]

Good news for Q: In an interview last night, Positron (lead designer) confirmed that there will be another double XP event before the end of the year.

[Circuit]

Good, because I need to get Iguanatron caught up to you guys.

[Paladin]

They need to do one weekend a month and two weeks a year.

Hey, that sounds familiar.