Have you read the patch notes lately? There will be some anti-AFK measures in place.

Are you guys spying on me or something. Of the last six months and this next weekend, the ONLY SP events to occur will have been during the ONLY weeks/weekends I am out of town...creepy .

We're looking into this! We'd ideally want to make it so that you're not going to have a situation like this. I'd like to say that this isn't going to be an issue - but I'm going to want to confirm before promising anything. :)

I think limiting the bonus to warpoints only would probably result in less of a bonus than the bonus in the current event paramters, but I haven't worked out the math on it yet. It would definitely not benefit newer and/or less skilled players who can't regularly exceed 1000 WP per battle.

Just keep in mind that there might be some secret algorithm to the anti-AFK mechanic. One of the devs (I forgot which) mentioned that that it will be rubber band proof in some way. By rubber band proof they could mean that the system might be able to tell the difference between a player trying to walk to an objective and a player just walking endlessly into a wall in the MCC because the player put a rubber band on his DS3.

I am just going to call in my indestructible murder taxi and drive around every ambush map. ill try not to run anyone over.... just drive.

Caldari Bootcamp is a serious challenge for serious people. Do you want to improve upon yourself to better take advantage of 1.4? Are you ready to test yourself? I hope so! This is going to be a lot of fun! Please read the details of this event where CCP Eterne lays it all out for you.

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!

Bad event due to the two extra levels of complication compared to previous events, which have the effect of limiting how and when you play:

- doesn't extend all week, so you have to avoid playing until the weekend or lose SP.
- only get bonus on 3,000SP, so you have to avoid Skirmish and Domination to maximize SP.

The upshot is that vets have less fun than usual, and newbs see the gulf between their SP and vet's SP widen as it's only the vets who've worked out CCP's crazy formula.

Still waiting on a response. How's it going, Shanghai?

This might better go in another thread but it's the event that set me to thinking about it...

There are a lot of reasons why marketing / game-design folks might not want to say outright why they are doing something...

• The reason might not be popular with clients even though it's thought to be in the best interest of the company
• Letting people know the objectives might bias them to behave in a way that changes the outcome of what they are trying out

And there are many times that the purpose is clear and it really doesn't need to spelled out...

• If a restaurant wants to build up Wednesday business they offer a special on Wednesday
• If they want more families to come in they discount kids meals

But for the life of me I can't figure out why CCP planned this and other events the way they did. And if they did have simple objectives, why did they choose not to share them?

If they wanted to draw new players in on the week end or
Get more players into ambush to test match making or
Get people excited about 1.4
Or .... who knows?

Why not just say...

"We want new players to come in on the week end. We will give characters with less than 2 million skill points a 3X bonus for every game they play. Older players could get some benefit by playing alts and trying out new weapons or play styles."

Or
"We want to really test the new matchmaking system so we want to load up ambush on the week end. Players will get a 1500 SP bonus for every ambush game they play during the week end no matter if they have capped or not."

Or
"We have a lot of new team play features in 1.4 and we want to have players try them out and give us statistics and feedback. Everyone who plays in a full squad for the whole game will get a 2000 SP bonus for the week after 1.4 is introduced."

Sure, people will still *****. But at least we'd know what what going on and could focus comments a bit more usefully.

I love it.... the event is a week away.... the thread was started at like 1 am on a Saturday, Shanghai time, and you posted this at like 1am Sunday Shanghai time....

Any idea what may be going on here....?

Chill. Be patient.

Think the critical time was "afternoon on a Friday" over in California (think that's where the 'business office' is right?) and yeah... it's Saturday. Don't expect anything until Tuesday lol.

We're looking into this! We'd ideally want to make it so that you're not going to have a situation like this. I'd like to say that this isn't going to be an issue - but I'm going to want to confirm before promising anything. :)

You know, after I read about this event and the dev replies in this thread, I thought to myself "Oh boy, CCP did it again". But after some thinking, I believe we may all be misunderstanding this event.

What if instead of raising our cap and increasing our SP gains, this event simply lets us cap out faster by keeping our cap the same but increasing gains during those 3 days.

So at the end of the week (if not using a booster) 190k is the same amount we will get, regardless if we play during the first part of the week or on the weekend. But if you play during the weekend, reaching that 190k cap will be a lot faster.


This would seem to make sense based on the dev reply about us not wanting to have to grind for 7 days, cause if our gains are increased for 3 days but the cap isn't increased, we can actually play normally for 3 days and cap out, rather than playing normally for 7 days to cap.