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843-Vika wrote:

Fristname Family name wrote:

CCP Cmdr Wang wrote:

[quote=SirManBoy]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.

The best way to ensure that you will receive your bonus SP from this event is to make sure that your character(s) have a SP booster installed before DT (11:00 UTC) on Friday March 14th.

So in 10 words or less do we activate our booster before or after friday downtime?
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Ok well ill be mad because I got this booster last year from a sp event and saved it and if it dont work ill be complaigning like a ***** on steriods that thought it made his **** bigger.

Basically from what i understand they will look at the highest valued booster you have active when they bring up the servers after the down time. so best bet is use booster right before down time so you get the max sp for event

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Chunky Munkey Amarr Templars Amarr Empire 3407	Posted - 2014.03.11 15:31:00 - [181] - Quote The "after downtime" remark in the OP seems a little misleading. To be on the safe side, I have taken it to mean you need a booster active the moment downtime ends in order to benefit. I.E. you'll have to activate a booster beforehand. However that wording suggests that you can activate the booster after the downtime. Which may or may not be true, but if it isn't a lot of people could be screwed over. No.
Disturbingly Bored Forum Warfare 1992	Posted - 2014.03.11 15:38:00 - [182] - Quote CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: Useful, useful stuff Commander Wang: Just want to take a moment to wax poetic about how clear and communicative you and the rest of the devs are being right now. You guys have been willing to get deep in the weeds to talk about nitty gritty details over the last few days. And it's incredibly helpful. As much as I usually gripe about specific balance issues, I respect the heck out of that. Great job on this, devs. I used to own the FAT GAT until this --> [ASCII Art removed - *draconian forum overlord* CCP Logibro]
Bendtner92 Imperfects Negative-Feedback 1848	Posted - 2014.03.11 15:41:00 - [183] - Quote Chunky Munkey wrote: The "after downtime" remark in the OP seems a little misleading. To be on the safe side, I have taken it to mean you need a booster active the moment downtime ends in order to benefit. I.E. you'll have to activate a booster beforehand. However that wording suggests that you can activate the booster after the downtime. Which may or may not be true, but if it isn't a lot of people could be screwed over. It's a little more clarified here. CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: 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. The best way to ensure that you will receive your bonus SP from this event is to make sure that your character(s) have a SP booster installed before DT (11:00 UTC) on Friday March 14th. So basically activate a booster shortly after downtime friday, or if you want to be sure then activate it before downtime. Winner of the EU Squad Cup & the closed beta Tester's Tournament. Go Go Power Rangers! R.I.P MAG.
WARRIOR GAC Grupo de Asalto Chacal RISE of LEGION 70	Posted - 2014.03.11 16:59:00 - [184] - Quote i have 1 booster x3 days, if active on Friday before 11:00 UTC, I can have the extra SP to event? Grupo de Asalto Chacal Estamos reclutando !
D legendary hero Ultramarine Corp 1817	Posted - 2014.03.11 17:21:00 - [185] - Quote CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: 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. If we destroy more than 1 million clones do we get more free SP? ie 2 million clones = 2million SP? Sou o Defendeiro dos derrubados_Pronto saberá justiça
manboar thunder fist SAM-MIK General Tso's Alliance 36	Posted - 2014.03.11 17:57:00 - [186] - Quote WOAH. major reflection... EVERY clone we kill.... means a dead clone for somebody else.... man... thats deep 1.8 will shoot my amarr logi in the face with an ion pistol then bury it under a caldari heavy. No, not alive thankfully
Alain Le Victorious Nyain San Renegade Alliance 1	Posted - 2014.03.11 18:25:00 - [187] - Quote Well either way we are getting a mill and I'll make sure of it don't worry us proto pubstombers will get everyone there mill sp leave it to Nyain San and Nyain Chan get ready for 1.8
Twelve Guage Death Firm. Canis Eliminatus Operatives 99	Posted - 2014.03.11 18:27:00 - [188] - Quote Alain Le Victorious wrote: Well either way we are getting a mill and I'll make sure of it don't worry us proto pubstombers will get everyone there mill sp leave it to Nyain San and Nyain Chan get ready for 1.8 Going to hold you to that Alain if we don't make the kills you have to give me 50m isk. Death Firm recruiter and sandwiches maker.
WeswePengu Occuton Death Firm. Canis Eliminatus Operatives 37	Posted - 2014.03.11 18:33:00 - [189] - Quote Twelve Guage wrote: Alain Le Victorious wrote: Well either way we are getting a mill and I'll make sure of it don't worry us proto pubstombers will get everyone there mill sp leave it to Nyain San and Nyain Chan get ready for 1.8 Going to hold you to that Alain if we don't make the kills you have to give me 50m isk. I want to see this agreed upon! If we don't hit the million then Alain pays twelve 50m isk :D Advanced Scout /Dropship Pilot. 1st Intel "+¦+¦-ä+¦+¦-ä+«-â++-à++ -â+¦ ++ -â+¦+¦+¡-é."
DUST Fiend OSG Planetary Operations Covert Intervention 12124	Posted - 2014.03.11 18:46:00 - [190] - Quote This has probably already been asked, but does a suicide count as a clone destroyed? Because it probably shouldn't >_< Videos / Fiction Closed Beta Vet; Incubus Pilot

Alain Le Victorious Nyain San Renegade Alliance 3	Posted - 2014.03.11 19:11:00 - [191] - Quote Twelve Guage wrote: Alain Le Victorious wrote: Well either way we are getting a mill and I'll make sure of it don't worry us proto pubstombers will get everyone there mill sp leave it to Nyain San and Nyain Chan get ready for 1.8 Going to hold you to that Alain if we don't make the kills you have to give me 50m isk. OK bet I got you twelve don't worry your mill will be there when they had it out
NEO Arbiter Red Hand Syndicate 61	Posted - 2014.03.11 19:20:00 - [192] - Quote Would running yourself over, calling an lav on top of yourself, or environmental damage (acid, fire, null cannon, mcc missile, etc.) count as a clone death? or a suicide (not count)? Tears4Life
lee corwood Knights Of Ender Galactic Skyfleet Empire 582	Posted - 2014.03.11 19:49:00 - [193] - Quote Alright! I purchased 2 omega boosters for each of my toons so I am prepared for all the sp that may come. Let's do this! Minmatar Logisis \| Heavy lover. Come get some badass Band-Aids from this chick
JP Acuna Pendejitos Canis Eliminatus Operatives 97	Posted - 2014.03.11 19:58:00 - [194] - Quote CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: The best way to ensure that you will receive your bonus SP from this event is to make sure that your character(s) have a SP booster installed before DT (11:00 UTC) on Friday March 14th. Before? Wasn't it after?
Disturbingly Bored Forum Warfare 1996	Posted - 2014.03.11 20:25:00 - [195] - Quote One more question for you CCP guys: What are the odds we can get a stretch goal out of this? You know, say we're really, really productive at killing and dying, and hit 1 million on the first day. Any chance we can get a 2 million kill/SP goal on top of that? I used to own the FAT GAT until this --> [ASCII Art removed - *draconian forum overlord* CCP Logibro]
Oxskull Duncarino 0uter.Heaven 480	Posted - 2014.03.11 20:38:00 - [196] - Quote JP Acuna wrote: CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: The best way to ensure that you will receive your bonus SP from this event is to make sure that your character(s) have a SP booster installed before DT (11:00 UTC) on Friday March 14th. Before? Wasn't it after? CCP's have said that when downtime is over they will check to see what booster is active, with a follow up check done 6 hours after downtime. Whichever booster is active at the 6 hour post downtime check will be the booster that counts. They might do a later check after the 6 hour one but at the moment it's not confirmed. The reason they said that activating before downtime is best is probably just so that you do it then rather than not being able to do it, or forgetting to do it before the post downtime 6 hour deadline. DUST Fiend wrote: This has probably already been asked, but does a suicide count as a clone destroyed? Because it probably shouldn't >_< Suicides don't count, so no jumping out of the MCC, over cooking grenades, etc. Just click the Dev Posts tab and read their posts.
DROPSHIP CAPTAIN Valor Coalition 13	Posted - 2014.03.11 21:31:00 - [197] - 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 active player 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 EPIC FAIL, now people are going to be playing dust 514 trying to get 1 million skill points though the goal is UNREACHABLE UNLESS YOU QUIT YOUR JOB AND PLAY 24/7 BEFORE THE EVENT IS ACTIVE. CCP, Devs some of us normal people have jobs and lives to tend to this need more time you are making this a non-reachable challenge for all of us that is not balanced I disagree and veto this event just for that reason. I am not quitting my job so i can play your products 24/7 in order to achieve 1,000,000 skill points THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WILL GET THIS ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ON SINCE THE GAME CAME OUT! You are not making this fair at all....people are leaving this game and not coming back more so with new players who just played for a month. they leave becasue you as a company have failed to realize that your events are poorly planned for you customers who are on 24/7 who probably don't have a real life to attend to, CCP I ask you this is this the type of environment you will allow in the end costing you money from people boycotting or quitting forever? Look I pay your bills with the money I give you to blow it all on vacationing in parts of the world you have no business being in in regards to product development more so of vacationing for all days of the year riding on people who actually work out there and it's not fair and we are revolted at as customers on who an unreachable goal has been posted as your monthly challenge good job ccp you are destroying work ethic world wide keep it up and maybe your video game will make it on the front of the paper again. oh and if you are going for it good luck your going to need to play this game 24/7 quit your real life dump your GF tell they guys you cant go out becasue that's the only way you will get your points no other way hands down I talked with too many about this outrage! your not getting a dime outta me that for sure. make the event longer more more longer for everyone to catch up and don't ever be sly like that again ever ok?
Disturbingly Bored Forum Warfare 1997	Posted - 2014.03.11 21:40:00 - [198] - Quote DROPSHIP CAPTAIN wrote: EPIC FAIL, now people are going to be playing dust 514 trying to get 1 million skill points though the goal is UNREACHABLE UNLESS YOU QUIT YOUR JOB AND PLAY 24/7 BEFORE THE EVENT IS ACTIVE. You know you don't have to get all 1 millions kills yourself, right? I used to own the FAT GAT until this --> [ASCII Art removed - *draconian forum overlord* CCP Logibro]
Bunny Demon Capital Acquisitions LLC Renegade Alliance 100	Posted - 2014.03.11 21:52:00 - [199] - Quote Is the sp award once per character (PSN) or once per clone that qualifies ie you can get 1 million for all 3 clones? So.....when are the um......new dropsuits coming out CCP.....it's been a few weeks now.... ;)
843-Vika BurgezzE.T.F General Tso's Alliance 11	Posted - 2014.03.11 22:07:00 - [200] - Quote Fristname Family name wrote: CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: 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. The best way to ensure that you will receive your bonus SP from this event is to make sure that your character(s) have a SP booster installed before DT (11:00 UTC) on Friday March 14th. So in 10 words or less do we activate our booster before or after friday downtime? Basically from what i understand they will look at the highest valued booster you have active when they bring up the servers after the down time. so best bet is use booster right before down time so you get the max sp for event

STEALTH HUNTER ZERO D.A.R.K L.E.G.I.O.N D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E 158	Posted - 2014.03.11 22:10:00 - [201] - Quote Disturbingly Bored wrote: DROPSHIP CAPTAIN wrote: EPIC FAIL, now people are going to be playing dust 514 trying to get 1 million skill points though the goal is UNREACHABLE UNLESS YOU QUIT YOUR JOB AND PLAY 24/7 BEFORE THE EVENT IS ACTIVE. You know you don't have to get all 1 millions kills yourself, right? I believe he failed reading comprehension. At least his post is an EPIC FAIL.
STEALTH HUNTER ZERO D.A.R.K L.E.G.I.O.N D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E 158	Posted - 2014.03.11 22:13:00 - [202] - Quote Bunny Demon wrote: Is the sp award once per character (PSN) or once per clone that qualifies ie you can get 1 million for all 3 clones? Any character, you must play 10 matches per character too receive whichever SP reward we achieve.
Fristname Family name Chatelain Rapid Response Gallente Federation 70	Posted - 2014.03.11 22:20:00 - [203] - Quote 843-Vika wrote: Fristname Family name wrote: CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: [quote=SirManBoy]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. The best way to ensure that you will receive your bonus SP from this event is to make sure that your character(s) have a SP booster installed before DT (11:00 UTC) on Friday March 14th. So in 10 words or less do we activate our booster before or after friday downtime? [/quote My post is starting from ok something broke with the qoute Ok well ill be mad because I got this booster last year from a sp event and saved it and if it dont work ill be complaigning like a *** on steriods that thought it made his ** bigger. Basically from what i understand they will look at the highest valued booster you have active when they bring up the servers after the down time. so best bet is use booster right before down time so you get the max sp for event Australian mercy worky.
JARREL THOMAS Dead Man's Game 175	Posted - 2014.03.11 22:49:00 - [204] - Quote wat about a 30-day booster before March 14th. will I still get sp Caldari Loyalist I speak for the rabbits
lee corwood Knights Of Ender Galactic Skyfleet Empire 583	Posted - 2014.03.11 22:52:00 - [205] - Quote JARREL THOMAS wrote: wat about a 30-day booster before March 14th. will I still get sp so long as its an active booster, yes. Minmatar Logisis \| Heavy lover. Come get some badass Band-Aids from this chick
843-Vika BurgezzE.T.F General Tso's Alliance 11	Posted - 2014.03.12 00:17:00 - [206] - Quote to comment on what someone posted before about logi leave you injectors at home. most logi dont know how use an injector even when they have 1 equipped, dont know how many clones i lost to incompetint logi that have injectors equip but to busy rep a guy for no reason to use it
lee corwood Knights Of Ender Galactic Skyfleet Empire 583	Posted - 2014.03.12 00:23:00 - [207] - Quote 843-Vika wrote: to comment on what someone posted before about logi leave you injectors at home. most logi dont know how use an injector even when they have 1 equipped, dont know how many clones i lost to incompetint logi that have injectors equip but to busy rep a guy for no reason to use it To be fair, that might be true of a lot of logis, but some logis can see threats you can't and don't want you to unnecessary lose the clone again. Not all, but some. I won't say your situation is specific but I've had to leave a lot of guys to bleed out because I couldn't save them due to cross fire or other threats. Even heavies. And I HATE leaving a heavy behind Minmatar Logisis \| Heavy lover. Come get some badass Band-Aids from this chick
Dimmu Borgir II The New Age Outlaws WINMATAR. 248	Posted - 2014.03.12 01:17:00 - [208] - Quote I conservatively calculate that an estimated 1,440,000 clones could realistically be killed in the 72 hour period. In 72 hours there are approximately 288 match slots, that's estimating each match at approximately 15 minutes each, I think that's a fair average. For the 288 match slots based on an average of 3200 online dusters at every given hour of the day (this could be wildly inaccurate depending on how our reaction is to the event, could be much more or could be less) and most matches being 16 v 16 then we could effectively have 100 ongoing matches at any given time, this is more likely to be 50 at any given time due to match wait time and people fncking around with their fittings etc and not being in match. So I guess 1 million should be pretty easy if we clone win most matches with an average of 100 clones lost per match. (288 x 100 (clones)) x 50 (active matches per 15 minutes timeslot). Not sure what you guys think, maybe I'm missing something but shouldn't be too difficult to get the 1 million. Blue is good, red is bad, orange you glad you're not red?

CCP Cmdr Wang C C P C C P Alliance 2543	Posted - 2014.03.12 06:42:00 - [209] - 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.

jerrmy12 kahoalii Pradox XVI Proficiency V. 493	Posted - 2014.03.12 06:44:00 - [210] - Quote CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: D legendary hero wrote: [quote=CCP Cmdr Wang][quote=Regis Blackbird][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. It wont be a grind Its bonus sp, make it like an alternative event thing, like if you guys want you can keep going and get moar Closed beta vet Logi, Heavy, Python, Scout.



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