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Million Clone Challenge
Throughout the weekend of March 14-17, should the total number of clones destroyed in New Eden reach 1 million, every shall receive 1 million skill points! The details for this event are:

When: The Million Clone Challenge runs from March 14 through 17 from downtime to downtime.
Objectives: During this period, the total number of mercenary clones destroyed by the player community will be tallied and for each milestone achieved, active player characters will be rewarded with commensurate skill points. The clone kill milestones are the following:

For 250,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 250,000 skill points
For 500,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 500,000 skill points
For 750,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 750,000 skill points
For 1,000,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 1,000,000 skill points

Additional event info

Only the total number of clones destroyed during the event will be counted, not the number of kills
Clone kills by friendly fire will not be counted
Active players characters in this case means any player characters that have logged in during event times and play at least 10 battles
Active skill boosters will grant bonus skill points earned in this event GÇô in order to receive the bonus you must:
Have a character that has an active skill booster installed on the first day of the event i.e. after downtime on March 14 in order to qualify for the bonus
The length of the booster does not affect the amount of skill point bonus applied i.e. as long as you have an active skill booster of any type installed on your character after downtime on March 14, your character will receive the full bonus from the skill booster for this event

Now, if you respawn does it count as destroyed? Or must you shoot the clone until terminated?

Oh and, if I activate a 1 day booster, do I get the extra sp if I activate it day 1?

Bump, new page, very serious question...

CCP Logibro // EVE Universe Community Team // Distributor of Nanites // Patron Saint of Logistics


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CCP Logibro C C P C C P Alliance 5714	Posted - 2014.03.10 14:19:00 - [1] - Quote Million Clone Challenge Throughout the weekend of March 14-17, should the total number of clones destroyed in New Eden reach 1 million, every shall receive 1 million skill points! The details for this event are: When: The Million Clone Challenge runs from March 14 through 17 from downtime to downtime. Objectives: During this period, the total number of mercenary clones destroyed by the player community will be tallied and for each milestone achieved, active player characters will be rewarded with commensurate skill points. The clone kill milestones are the following: For 250,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 250,000 skill points For 500,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 500,000 skill points For 750,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 750,000 skill points For 1,000,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 1,000,000 skill points Additional event info Only the total number of clones destroyed during the event will be counted, not the number of kills Clone kills by friendly fire will not be counted Active players characters in this case means any player characters that have logged in during event times and play at least 10 battles Active skill boosters will grant bonus skill points earned in this event GÇô in order to receive the bonus you must: Have a character that has an active skill booster installed on the first day of the event i.e. after downtime on March 14 in order to qualify for the bonus The length of the booster does not affect the amount of skill point bonus applied i.e. as long as you have an active skill booster of any type installed on your character after downtime on March 14, your character will receive the full bonus from the skill booster for this event CCP Logibro // EVE Universe Community Team // Distributor of Nanites // Patron Saint of Logistics


CCP Logibro C C P C C P Alliance 5724	Posted - 2014.03.10 15:00:00 - [2] - Quote To answer a few questions: Yes Omega boosters will work. We'll try and tweet out some running totals over the weekend for the total number of clones killed. And before anyone panics, don't take this as an indication as to whether or not we're providing a respec with Uprising 1.8. CCP Logibro // EVE Universe Community Team // Distributor of Nanites // Patron Saint of Logistics


CCP Logibro C C P C C P Alliance 5729	Posted - 2014.03.10 15:53:00 - [3] - Quote ads alt wrote: ads alt wrote: ads alt wrote: CCP Logibro wrote: Million Clone Challenge Throughout the weekend of March 14-17, should the total number of clones destroyed in New Eden reach 1 million, every shall receive 1 million skill points! The details for this event are: When: The Million Clone Challenge runs from March 14 through 17 from downtime to downtime. Objectives: During this period, the total number of mercenary clones destroyed by the player community will be tallied and for each milestone achieved, active player characters will be rewarded with commensurate skill points. The clone kill milestones are the following: For 250,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 250,000 skill points For 500,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 500,000 skill points For 750,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 750,000 skill points For 1,000,000 clones destroyed, all active players will receive 1,000,000 skill points Additional event info Only the total number of clones destroyed during the event will be counted, not the number of kills Clone kills by friendly fire will not be counted Active players characters in this case means any player characters that have logged in during event times and play at least 10 battles Active skill boosters will grant bonus skill points earned in this event GÇô in order to receive the bonus you must: Have a character that has an active skill booster installed on the first day of the event i.e. after downtime on March 14 in order to qualify for the bonus The length of the booster does not affect the amount of skill point bonus applied i.e. as long as you have an active skill booster of any type installed on your character after downtime on March 14, your character will receive the full bonus from the skill booster for this event Now, if you respawn does it count as destroyed? Or must you shoot the clone until terminated? Oh and, if I activate a 1 day booster, do I get the extra sp if I activate it day 1? Bump, new page, very serious question... As per the additional info: Quote: Have a character that has an active skill booster installed on the first day of the event i.e. after downtime on March 14 in order to qualify for the bonus So as long as you have a booster installed after DT on the 14th of March, you're all good. CCP Logibro // EVE Universe Community Team // Distributor of Nanites // Patron Saint of Logistics


CCP Logibro C C P C C P Alliance 5730	Posted - 2014.03.10 16:07:00 - [4] - Quote XANDER KAG wrote: Is that 10 matches per day? Or just 10 matches over the entire event? Entire event, but I would still recommend you keep playing to help hit that one million mark. CCP Logibro // EVE Universe Community Team // Distributor of Nanites // Patron Saint of Logistics


CCP Logibro C C P C C P Alliance 5745	Posted - 2014.03.10 16:56:00 - [5] - Quote Vespasian Andendare wrote: CCP Logibro wrote: To answer a few questions: Yes Omega boosters will work. We'll try and tweet out some running totals over the weekend for the total number of clones killed. And before anyone panics, don't take this as an indication as to whether or not we're providing a respec with Uprising 1.8. Can you explain a bit how the boosters will work? Omegas will give you a possibility of an extra 1,000,000 sp (2 million total), while regular active boosters will give +500,000 (1.5 million total)? Correct. And as for questions about what counts as a "kill", if the clone reserve number goes down, that's a clone death. So yes, killing someone without terminating the clone and then having them respawn counts but killing them and then them getting revived does not. CCP Logibro // EVE Universe Community Team // Distributor of Nanites // Patron Saint of Logistics


CCP Logibro C C P C C P Alliance 5745	Posted - 2014.03.10 16:58:00 - [6] - Quote CCP Logibro wrote: Vespasian Andendare wrote: CCP Logibro wrote: To answer a few questions: Yes Omega boosters will work. We'll try and tweet out some running totals over the weekend for the total number of clones killed. And before anyone panics, don't take this as an indication as to whether or not we're providing a respec with Uprising 1.8. Can you explain a bit how the boosters will work? Omegas will give you a possibility of an extra 1,000,000 sp (2 million total), while regular active boosters will give +500,000 (1.5 million total)? Correct. And as for questions about what counts as a "kill", if the clone reserve number goes down, that's a clone death. So yes, killing someone without terminating the clone and then having them respawn counts but killing them and then them getting revived does not. [quote=Ydubbs81 RND]Does clone lost in PC battles count? I'm pretty sure that they do as we made it actual clones lost in the match (which means if you only kill a single clone in a match, you only add one to the total) but I'll have to double check. CCP Logibro // EVE Universe Community Team // Distributor of Nanites // Patron Saint of Logistics


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2524	Posted - 2014.03.11 03:21:00 - [7] - Quote Disturbingly Bored wrote: CCP I HAVE A REQUEST Can you put information about this event on the login screen throughout the rest of this week? I want as many of my fellow Mercs plugging away at each other as possible, and not everyone reads the forums. We will later today when the localization of the event message is ready.


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2529	Posted - 2014.03.11 05:55:00 - [8] - Quote SirManBoy wrote: I'm a bit confused about the booster issue. I currently have a 30 day active booster on, but I plan on purchasing an Omega booster to maximize my SP gains for the event. How can I be sure that you'll recognize my Omega booster rather than my standard active booster that's already running? Do I need to start the Omega booster prior to downtime on the 14th? Will starting it after be okay? If it's fine to start it after downtime, what would happen if I forget to activate it during my first match on the 14th? Would I be screwed, making only 1.5x SP instead 2.0x SP for the entire event? Please give us explicit details on how to ensure that we have absolutely no problems getting the most from this event with our boosters. Thank you!!! Here is our plan to approach this issue: We will look at what kind of booster you have right after Friday's DT is over on the 14th and that is the booster bonus you will receive. There will be edge cases like the one you pointed out. To mitigate this, we will take another look at character boosters installed later in the day (currently, 6 hours after DT on Friday) to see if the booster has been changed. We will take the higher bonus from the boosters when calculating your SP bonus from this event, i.e. if you had an Omega booster and a regular booster installed on Friday, we will give you the bonus from the Omega booster. We could do a third check at 11pm UTC on Friday to catch as many edge cases as possible as well. Let me know your thoughts.


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2529	Posted - 2014.03.11 06:31:00 - [9] - Quote Regis Blackbird wrote: CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: Disturbingly Bored wrote: CCP I HAVE A REQUEST Can you put information about this event on the login screen throughout the rest of this week? I want as many of my fellow Mercs plugging away at each other as possible, and not everyone reads the forums. We will later today when the localization of the event message is ready. You might even want to consider to update the message with the current number of killed clones after each downtime? Would be nice to track the progress of this event. We will be updating the number of clones destroyed daily via social media (Facebook and Twitter) as well as this thread. And we will update the message to let players know where to go for the updates.


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2543	Posted - 2014.03.12 06:42:00 - [10] - Quote D legendary hero wrote: [quote=CCP Cmdr Wang][quote=Regis Blackbird][quote=CCP Cmdr Wang][quote=Disturbingly Bored] CCP I HAVE A REQUEST If we destroy more than 1 million clones do we get more free SP? ie 2 million clones = 2million SP? I see quite a few people asking about this and don't mind setting a stretch goal for 2 million. However, the intent of this event is to set a goal for the community that is realistic and achievable without a lot of time commitment. If we start raising that bar, then it starts the slippery slope towards the grind and that would be my main concern.



CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2563	Posted - 2014.03.14 02:43:00 - [11] - Quote Brigitte Newt wrote: I would still like an answer from CCP regarding Active Omega Booster 3-day. If I have Omega activated on Wednesday (12/03) until Saturday (15/03), will I receive bonus skill points from event? Short answer would be great - Yes or No? Yes.


CCP Frame C C P C C P Alliance 2352	Posted - 2014.03.15 10:13:00 - [12] - Quote 24 hours have passed and so far 370,580 DUST 514 mercenary clones have met their end and gone to the biomass vats. Only 629,420 more to go for the 1 million skill point reward! CCP Frame


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2597	Posted - 2014.03.15 12:50:00 - [13] - Quote Here's an update on the total clone kill number thus far: 887,139 Since there's less than 200K to go I am going to set the strech goal at 2 million. For each additional 250K clones killed beyond the first million players who have logged in and played 10 or more matches will receive an additional 250K skill points, up to 1 million. That means if you guys hit 2 million kills you will get 2 million skill points for this event! To keep the skill point at reasonable levels for this event, we will not apply booster bonus for the streach goal reward.


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2597	Posted - 2014.03.15 13:03:00 - [14] - Quote Megaman Trigger wrote: CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: Here's an update on the total clone kill number thus far: 887,139 Since there's less than 200K to go I am going to set the strech goal at 2 million. For each additional 250K clones killed beyond the first million players who have logged in and played 10 or more matches will receive an additional 250K skill points, up to 1 million. That means if you guys hit 2 million kills you will get 2 million skill points for this event! To keep the skill point at reasonable levels for this event, we will not apply booster bonus for the streach goal reward. So we can get 2million SP with an Omega Booster (1.5 with standard Boosters or 1million without Boosters) for the initial reward and upto an extra 1million for the stretch goal. Right? In a word? YES!


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2600	Posted - 2014.03.15 13:21:00 - [15] - Quote rondmorr deathstroke wrote: Hey Dev. Can u check and see why I had purchased with aurum 3 active boosters and now have none? I used 1 last weekend and we're going to use the other 2 each weekend. 1 this weekend (#2) and 1 next week (#3). They are not on my Aug list anymore. Should have 2 left. Please contact customer support and they will help with this. You can go to http://dust514.com/community/support/ for more info.


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2600	Posted - 2014.03.15 13:23:00 - [16] - Quote Aikuchi Tomaru wrote: CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: Here's an update on the total clone kill number thus far: 887,139 Since there's less than 200K to go I am going to set the strech goal at 2 million. For each additional 250K clones killed beyond the first million players who have logged in and played 10 or more matches will receive an additional 250K skill points, up to 1 million. That means if you guys hit 2 million kills you will get 2 million skill points for this event! Marry me! Quote: To keep the skill point at reasonable levels for this event, we will not apply booster bonus for the streach goal reward. You know what's not unreasonable? More Skillpoints. More Skillpoints are always good. There's only one thing that can replace more Skillpoints and that's even more Skillpoints. Can you sneak in a little error in that script please so it gives more Skillpoints for the stretch goal too? I won't tell anyone! Ha, nice try! But we will review the results from this event and see if we can refine it so the next one can be even better. Keep those ideas coming!


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2623	Posted - 2014.03.16 09:59:00 - [17] - Quote 48 hours have passed and 1,732,407 clones have been destroyed! Less than 300K to go for the stretch goal of 2 million!


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2641	Posted - 2014.03.17 09:00:00 - [18] - Quote As we are wrapping up MCC event, the clone kill count stands at a whopping 2,741,333! A job well done mercs! Thanks go out to all of you who participated this weekend and helped to make this event a great success.


CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2660	Posted - 2014.03.19 09:56:00 - [19] - Quote Good news mercs! We will be deploying your MCC reward today! Enjoy your skill points, you've all earned it! Also, we will allow anyone who activated an active skill booster over the weekend, so if you didn't get your booster activated until Saturday or Sunday, you can still get the bonus skill points from the boosters! It's just our way of saying thank you!