I took that week off work partly to enjoy 1.4. Please don't penalize me for playing Wed-Fri. It would be very punishing to force me to sit on my hands all week and then attempt to cap out in two days.

You could play with an alt? It would be like working in reverse of how you'd do it normally where you cap your dude early, and then complain on the weekend. You could just complain ahead of time as if it WAS the weekend, but then start with your main on the weekend!

Alternatively, what about an SP event where the SP you earned with one alt, could also be multiplied to the rest of them. So you could bill it as a potentially 3x to 9x SP event, but you'd have to cap 2 alts and your main if you wanted all that SP.

I believe the whole we don't want to play 7 days to reach benefit feedback has been misunderstood. For example, the last event was effectively double the cap with close to the same SP gain per match, thus it took almost twice as long to reach cap. Thus, we don't want events that take 7 days to complete. In short, we want events that take less time to complete when we have time to complete them. Maybe that makes sense?

Bonus SP doesn't count toward your SP cap.

From how I interpreted the event (and from what has been stated here), it seems that the way to maximize your SP gain from this event is to not play on Wednesday and Thursday, and to only play ambushes from Friday - Sunday with the specific goal of not exceeding 3000 SP per match. Exceeding 3000 SP will mean depleting your cap faster without any reciprocal bonus event SP. So play a lot of games but don't do too well or you're shorting yourself SP... an interesting style of gameplay you're inadvertently promoting with this event, CCP.

After capping, your extra event SP will be equal to your normal SP per match, so assuming you can consistently score high on ambushes, this is still the best game mode to maximize SP potential. The actual warpoint to SP conversion will still be 1:1 unlike past SP events, but since whatever you gain will be doubled up to the soft cap, this will lead to more points gained for the same time invested. This is when you should try your hardest to meet or exceed the 1000 WP soft cap per match.

I just did the math and assuming I take Friday off of work and cap out on that day, I should be able to earn around 940K SP from active play alone, so with my Omega passive that'll be 1.082 mil SP in three days time. It's going to be a grueling grind, but probably easier than the last 2x SP event.

How can you earn 3000 SP after the weekly cap? After the cap, you can only earn 1000, right?

One of the concerns that came up in feedback about the 7 day cycle was that it meant people had to play every day to earn the maximum reward. So it's the same amount that you would get over 7 days, just condensed to 3. Allowing for a more concentrated weekend event.

Give it a try, see what you think - we look forward to your feedback!

Yeah this feels like it forces me to play non-stop over three days, instead of at a more leisurely pace over seven (or six or whatever).

It also means I won't be playing on the Weds, Thurs and Fri before Friday downtime so I can maximise any SP I get. If I do manage to cap, I probably won't be playing after I've capped either.

If you want to do shorter events, then could try something along the lines of a free special active booster that can only be activated during a certain window (like any time in a specific week). This would only work for a certain number of matches.

You could do all sorts with that, like make it only work for ambush, or make it work for 10x ambush and 10x skirmish. You'd also get different ppl earning bonus points at different times, which might balance out pub-stomping as well as give ppl the flexibility of when they activate.

I dunno, I'm sure there's loads of things you could do that feel like a more balanced mechanic. That all said however, thanks for the chance for more SP, even if I don't get the reasoning behind the mechanics of it.

Checking some math and it looks like I'll have to start AFKing in ambushes instead of playing them to keep under the 3k SP limit.

From my experience, the average ambush lasts 8 minutes, but can range from 6-12 minutes, and with the current formula [5x(seconds alive in match)+WP = SP] that doesn't leave much of a margin for earning additional WP from PVP actions in game, without exceeding the limit.

Who wants to join me in a nice LLAV tour near the redline?

Ummm..... I don't know what your smoking dude. Hitting the limit maximizes the amount of points you could possibly make. In other words, only the first 3000 SP you earn in a match will be doubled. so ill give you an example. You complete a match and earn 4000 SP. Only 3000 of that gets doubled, so now you get 4000 SP + 3000 more. If you have an SP booster on, then you would get an additional 2000 SP on top of the 7000 you just earned. Creating a sum total of 9000 SP.

Hitting the max is what you should be trying to do..... not avoid. By redlinine camping you would just be losing out while everyone looks at you and goes "wtf is he doing?"