DUST Search - "War Academy Weekend" SP Event

Aero Yassavi wrote:

CCP do you even understand our complaints from the last event? Because this sure doesn't sound like you do.

The complaint was it felt like a grind because only the warpoints earned affected the bonus SP, and I thought that was to prevent AFKing. Npw that AFKing is prevented in 1.4 why still do this?

Reducing the event from 7 days to 3 days will only make the grind feel worse, because now we only have 3 days to hit our cap if we want to take full advantage of the event.

Having this event not start alongside the weekly SP cap reset means we have to wait until the event starts before we start playing, no matter what you say because last time you started an SP event that didn't like up with the weekly reset (the triple SP event in July) you completely messed it up.

Thanks for the SP event, but is it too late to make it not feel like a terrible grind? All you need to do is

Start the SP event on September 4ths downtime

Have the bonus SP equal to double of your TOTAL match SP

End the SP event on September 11ths downtime

That is all. If you do that then the grind won't be bad at all, it'll be exactly the same as it is every normal week except we gain double the points.

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Master Jaraiya Ultramarine Corp 581	Posted - 2013.08.30 13:47:00 - [1] - Quote What is this?
Lorhak Gannarsein DUST University Ivy League 240	Posted - 2013.08.30 13:49:00 - [2] - Quote I also would like to know. There doesn't seem to be a devblog about it...
DUST Fiend OSG Planetary Operations Covert Intervention 5963	Posted - 2013.08.30 14:10:00 - [3] - Quote Color me confused. What are we talking about?
Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 3827	Posted - 2013.08.30 14:10:00 - [4] - Quote ???
Knight Soiaire Better Hide R Die 2140	Posted - 2013.08.30 14:18:00 - [5] - Quote Some event going on from the 6th - 9th of September. CCP seemed to have updated the news feed too early this time, because I cant find a thread for it.
Master Jaraiya Ultramarine Corp 581	Posted - 2013.08.30 15:49:00 - [6] - Quote Knight Soiaire wrote: Some event going on from the 6th - 9th of September. CCP seemed to have updated the news feed too early this time, because I cant find a thread for it. I require a more detailed explanation.
We are 138 Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 353	Posted - 2013.08.30 15:51:00 - [7] - Quote log out then log back in, in the announcements they state there is going to be an event on said days and info would be here on the forums
Parson Atreides Ahrendee Mercenaries EoN. 618	Posted - 2013.08.30 15:55:00 - [8] - Quote We all take a newberry under our wing for said days and explain to them why they should get as few WP per game as possible.
Coleman Gray GunFall Mobilization Covert Intervention 625	Posted - 2013.08.30 15:56:00 - [9] - Quote Hopefully something that gives people in battle academy double or even triple SP, and then when it's proven to e a good idea hopefully it will stick!
Aero Yassavi PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris 1381	Posted - 2013.08.30 15:58:00 - [10] - Quote Anyone surprised we're getting another SP event shortly after the release of another update, just like the last few?


CCP Mintchip C C P C C P Alliance 1106	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:00:00 - [11] - Quote Yes! I will be posting about it later today! No worries :) It's a fun SP Weekend event that we have planned to celebrate 1.4! Patience, Buttercups! CCP Mintchip // Twitter - @CCP_Mintchip Dust 514 Community Rep

Bittersteel the Bastard WarRavens League of Infamy 440	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:01:00 - [12] - Quote CCP Mintchip wrote: Yes! I will be posting about it later today! No worries :) It's a fun SP Weekend event that we have planned to celebrate 1.4! Patience, Buttercups! They're giving us a sample of the crack so we come back for more.
Amy Artic Binary Mercs 4	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:03:00 - [13] - Quote Thanks Mintchip! :D Yay SP weekend!! and now the wait begins :3
Master Jaraiya Ultramarine Corp 581	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:03:00 - [14] - Quote CCP Mintchip wrote: Yes! I will be posting about it later today! No worries :) It's a fun SP Weekend event that we have planned to celebrate 1.4! Patience, Buttercups! Thanks! You got a like, buttercup!
Coleman Gray GunFall Mobilization Covert Intervention 625	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:05:00 - [15] - Quote Bittersteel the Bastard wrote: CCP Mintchip wrote: Yes! I will be posting about it later today! No worries :) It's a fun SP Weekend event that we have planned to celebrate 1.4! Patience, Buttercups! They're giving us a sample of the crack so we come back for more. Don't be fooled, when CCP says "fun" in their post, only bad things follow
Rynoceros Rise of Old Dudes 600	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:06:00 - [16] - Quote 5x SP week to accompany implementation of the remaining racial suits & vehicles, to muffle the respec cries?
CHIPMINT BUTTERCUP KILL-EM-QUICK RISE of LEGION 96	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:21:00 - [17] - Quote Rynoceros wrote: 5x SP week to accompany implementation of the remaining racial suits & vehicles, to muffle the respec cries? Sounds more like a, "Please, please, please keep playing our broke game new people, please stay we promise things will get better soonGäó." Event to me.
thecoolest guy Ancient Exiles 3	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:26:00 - [18] - Quote It's a 2x SP event with the rewards being given after the event is finished. http://dust514.com/events/experience-uprising-10-4-with-the-caldari-bootcamp/
gbh08 CAUSE 4 C0NCERN 89	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:48:00 - [19] - Quote im not understanding the examples given in the blog post lol more so, this bit "You earn 3000 SP from a match after the weekly cap" as we only earn 1000sp max after we hit cap.... i dunno Is this whole thing pretty much a case of "dont cap untill the event" ?
CHIPMINT BUTTERCUP KILL-EM-QUICK RISE of LEGION 96	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:50:00 - [20] - Quote I love this sentence, Quote: Everyone loves Skill Points I hate SP's it makes this game feel like a job.

Skihids Bullet Cluster 1979	Posted - 2013.08.30 16:59:00 - [21] - Quote They got this bassackwards. People complain about having to play a lot to max out the event benefits, so they rig it such that you have to cap out your entire week's SP bonus in two days? I've got the first week of September off, but now I have to skip playing Wednesday-Friday and cram all my cap in on Saturday and Sunday to get the benefit of the bonus. How the hell is that going to make it less stressful??? Someone explain this to me, please.
Aero Yassavi PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris 1382	Posted - 2013.08.30 17:19:00 - [22] - Quote CCP do you even understand our complaints from the last event? Because this sure doesn't sound like you do. The complaint was it felt like a grind because only the warpoints earned affected the bonus SP, and I thought that was to prevent AFKing. Npw that AFKing is prevented in 1.4 why still do this? Reducing the event from 7 days to 3 days will only make the grind feel worse, because now we only have 3 days to hit our cap if we want to take full advantage of the event. Having this event not start alongside the weekly SP cap reset means we have to wait until the event starts before we start playing, no matter what you say because last time you started an SP event that didn't like up with the weekly reset (the triple SP event in July) you completely messed it up. Thanks for the SP event, but is it too late to make it not feel like a terrible grind? All you need to do is Start the SP event on September 4ths downtime Have the bonus SP equal to double of your TOTAL match SP End the SP event on September 11ths downtime That is all. If you do that then the grind won't be bad at all, it'll be exactly the same as it is every normal week except we gain double the points.
CHIPMINT BUTTERCUP KILL-EM-QUICK RISE of LEGION 97	Posted - 2013.08.30 17:29:00 - [23] - Quote CCP don't give a farg about us, lol. They love your $$$$$$'s that you will spend on boosters for this event.
BLUE WAFFLE TASTY Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy 3	Posted - 2013.08.30 18:35:00 - [24] - Quote Skihids wrote: They got this bassackwards. People complain about having to play a lot to max out the event benefits, so they rig it such that you have to cap out your entire week's SP bonus in two days? I've got the first week of September off, but now I have to skip playing Wednesday-Friday and cram all my cap in on Saturday and Sunday to get the benefit of the bonus. How the hell is that going to make it less stressful??? Someone explain this to me, please. all u crybabies who cant hit a 200,000 sp cap in a week stop complaining. be happy you get an event at all and play or dont, nobody else cares. a good way to have them taken away completely is keepp complaining. nobodys fault but your own that you lack sufficient skill to cap in any more than 8 hrs.
Aikuchi Tomaru Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 328	Posted - 2013.08.30 18:36:00 - [25] - Quote CCP Mintchip wrote: Yes! I will be posting about it later today! No worries :) It's a fun SP Weekend event that we have planned to celebrate 1.4! Patience, Buttercups! Will you let everyone join the war academy for some fun pub stomps?
Ares 514 D.A.R.K L.E.G.I.O.N D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E 69	Posted - 2013.08.30 18:58:00 - [26] - Quote Aero Yassavi wrote: CCP do you even understand our complaints from the last event? Because this sure doesn't sound like you do. The complaint was it felt like a grind because only the warpoints earned affected the bonus SP, and I thought that was to prevent AFKing. Npw that AFKing is prevented in 1.4 why still do this? Reducing the event from 7 days to 3 days will only make the grind feel worse, because now we only have 3 days to hit our cap if we want to take full advantage of the event. Having this event not start alongside the weekly SP cap reset means we have to wait until the event starts before we start playing, no matter what you say because last time you started an SP event that didn't like up with the weekly reset (the triple SP event in July) you completely messed it up. Thanks for the SP event, but is it too late to make it not feel like a terrible grind? All you need to do is Start the SP event on September 4ths downtime Have the bonus SP equal to double of your TOTAL match SP End the SP event on September 11ths downtime That is all. If you do that then the grind won't be bad at all, it'll be exactly the same as it is every normal week except we gain double the points. CCP, what a **** up. I thought some of the last events were bad, but you went and made it worse. So are we not supposed to play until Friday? What if you can't play on the weekend and can only play on weekdays? Sigh.
Aero Yassavi PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris 1384	Posted - 2013.08.30 19:02:00 - [27] - Quote BLUE WAFFLE TASTY wrote: Skihids wrote: They got this bassackwards. People complain about having to play a lot to max out the event benefits, so they rig it such that you have to cap out your entire week's SP bonus in two days? I've got the first week of September off, but now I have to skip playing Wednesday-Friday and cram all my cap in on Saturday and Sunday to get the benefit of the bonus. How the hell is that going to make it less stressful??? Someone explain this to me, please. all u crybabies who cant hit a 200,000 sp cap in a week stop complaining. be happy you get an event at all and play or dont, nobody else cares. a good way to have them taken away completely is keepp complaining. nobodys fault but your own that you lack sufficient skill to cap in any more than 8 hrs. I know that it comes off as complaining for receiving free points, but you have to look at it deeper than that. This event is obviously flawed in design, but the people at CCP actually thought this would make it better. It's the same type of decision making that happens when they decide new players only need 1000 points in battle academy to be promoted to proto stomps, or that the Amarr Commando should get a racial bonus for module use when the Commando sacrifices modules and Amarr is the race that always has the least modules. It's not really complaining about receiving free stuff, it's complaining that there is someone at CCP who has a shockingly low amount of common sense. As a disclaimer I really want to support CCP and Dust and I'm always promoting it to everyone I talk to and always try to hide the flaws.


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