We have clarified the event details for easier understanding on how the SP event will work, you can check them out here.

Is this link broken for anyone else or is it just me?

TL;DR

Play as you normally do and get extra SP! For free! Pretty clear.

Not broken for me. It's basically the same info, but in a different format for easier understanding.

This should help reduce the fatigue and feeling like you need to play seven days straight to maximize the benefits.

Either way I make 2-3 times the 3k per match they have set soooo

AFKing is a must, and it will probably take 3-5 days just to AFK all the SP from 10 minute ambush matches with no kills.

This is gonna suck.

Sending corp wide mail to AFK ambush's now. Stupid..

There are dozens of posts like this. I don't get it. What advantage is there to avoiding kills? If you got 6000SP per match, you would get 2x3000+3000=9000SP, so 3000SP more than if you avoid getting kills. The match takes the same amount of time either way. So this seems like a wonderful way to take a lot of SP away from yourself and your corp.

There are dozens of posts like this. I don't get it. What advantage is there to avoiding kills? If you got 6000SP per match, you would get 2x3000+3000=9000SP, so 3000SP more than if you avoid getting kills. The match takes the same amount of time either way. So this seems like a wonderful way to take a lot of SP away from yourself and your corp.

Thanks guys. I'm basically just very confused by this event and am going to shut up.

Thanks guys. I'm basically just very confused by this event and am going to shut up.

I don't blame you. I don't understand why CCP doesn't just make it so you gain skill points as normal throughout the duration of the event, than at the end ALL points gained during the event are doubled.

When the hell do you sleep Aero?

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.

Stop this MADNESS right now, simplify the SP system and let us enjoy the game without a full page devblog with math explaining how to gain SP this week.

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The primary goal of this event is to first test the new script and ensure it does not interfere with the game mechanics.

It is also interesting to note that while many are complaining about this event being a grind, they are also worried about hitting cap too soon, which means it will actually be less grindy if they average more than the mean 3000 SP per match.

I also don't see how AFKing will help players maximize their SP gain, yes you will earn more than you usually do, but it is unlikely that you get more than 3000 SP per match by doing nothing....

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TL;DR
Play as you normally do and get extra SP! For free! Pretty clear.

If you think about it another way, time in battle contributes far more to your SP than warpoints. So if you are in a proto squad and can stomp the other team resulting in a match around 5 minutes long, you could still conceivably earn a decent amount of warpoints (albeit not over 1500) while remaining under the 3k SP limit. But it's safer, easier, and less costly just to AFK instead.

There is a risk of going over 3000 raw SP. A risk of losing some of the precious weekly max gain.
Those maximizing competetiveness are not gonna take that chance.

That's true, and I'm probably not going to use that strategy myself. I'll stick to AFKing. But the point of my post was to illustrate a way for players who do not want to AFK to also stay under the 3k limit (for the most part) - it just means you have to win the battle very quickly by cloning, but your squad (and probably your whole team) needs to do fairly well so the WP are spread around. This might be harder to do now that the matchmaking system is supposed to decrease pubstomps. If the match does end up dragging out and you have a high score, you can always disconnect. You'll probably end up with more points in less time than you would have by AFKing and having to disconnect at the 10 min mark.

also don't see how AFKing will help players maximize their SP gain, yes you will earn more than you usually do, but it is unlikely that you get more than 3000 SP per match by doing nothing.