Why the hell are these bonus SP events so damn confusing? Any other FPS is a simple "Double XP weekend" or some **** like that. WIth CCP, we need a whole god damn dev blog and intense forum scrutiny and interpretation to figure out what the hell is going on.

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. :)

It is what it is. Me see I like. Goodbye.

Maybe we are confused by your wording? but it sounds like we have to earn all our SP during those days to get the benefit of all our SP being doubled?

Oh gosh... I'm so prepared for this event

Gonna be driving hours&hours my precious "90% damage reduction to shields" LLAV during 60+ ambushes
Just hope everyone is ready for my mother***** friendly tactics bitGé¼//Gé¼$ hahaha

just so you know the murder taxi are taking damage when running people over. plus that lav has 300 second cooldown for a 10 second pulse.

lol i read that wrong lol i think they fixed it to take full damage to the lav equaled to the person shield & armor

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!

it took less than 5 minutes for players to jump on how silly this event was planned out...it took 100 CCP man hours to come up with it.

If I understand correctly:
What does everyone else think of this? Is this accurate? Without any other pre-stated possible corrections or errors.


You earn 3000 SP from a match after the weekly cap. With a Skill Booster, you earn 1500 extra SP; without you earn 1000 extra SP.
For the Event:
So: 3000+Booster(+1500)=4500
So: 3000+No Boost(+1000)=4000

theres less than a hundred of them (less than 20 actually planning this, probably even fewer but diddnt want to underestimate)

and literally thousands of us

"100 man hours" does not mean a 100 people working, it means 100 hours of work.

Edit: just looked up the term "man-hours", I don't know what I'm talking about apparently.

i was more pointing out that it doesnt matter what they are doing and how much time they spend doing it, the sheer number of us observers testing their work WILL inevitably produce things they diddnt think of.


this would still be true even if they took an infinate amount of time to do so, and still be true as long as the number of people creating is less than the number of people consuming

there is no way to get 3000 after the weekly cap. you would only get 1000(plus 1000 4the event & another 500 w/ a booster) for
2000 w/o boster and 2500 w/ booster

Hmm... You guys raise some salient points that might have been overlooked. I'll confer with Cmdr Wang about these issues and see what he says; I might have gotten some wording wrong about it.

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. :)

With 2 days to go, IGÇÖd very much like to know if I shouldn't be playing until the weekend or not...... Any word yet CCP?

Now, in regard to the weekly skill cap and the implications of it:

We acknowledge that the current implementation of the skill cap still isn't quite there yet. It doesn't quite allow people to choose when to play as freely as we would like, and it also adds some unnecessary complexity when it comes to using active boosters. This is why we are working our way towards a rollover SP system: instead having your pool of bonus SP being reset according to a fixed weekly cycle, you will steadily accumulate bonus SP to a pool over time that you can then empty through fighting in battles. As a result, everyone should be able to better choose when to come in and claim the available SP. Moving to such a system would have the added benefit of allowing us to make active boosters to give out a constant value over time by having them influence the rate at which SP accumulates into the pool instead of just multiplying SP received at the end of each battle.