lol seriously?

I'd hate to see you on the Christmas when you found out santa wasn't real
:(

Here's how I see the situation and I'm curious to understand exactly where the disconnect is what I'm thinking and what everyone else has been thinking because every time I tried to understand what people thought was going on the more confused I got.

So as I see it the weekly cap is 190,400 SP. On Wednesday if earned that much SP you would hit the soft cap and earn 1 SP per WP up to 1,000 SP. On Thursday the weekly cap would be increased from 190,400 to 571,200 SP. At this point there is no "remainder" or anything else. There's simply more SP to be earned before you hit the cap. Same as if you don't cap out in a single day and come back the next day. You continue earning SP until you hit the cap, it's just that simple. So no matter what day you earned the SP, how much you got this day vs that day or whether or not the rate has been tripled yet or not makes absolutely no difference. The absolute maximum every player will earn before hitting the soft cap is 571,200 SP. So would someone explain how you could possibly "lose" SP by playing on Wednesday?

And as for the "multiplying" or "adding" thing I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about at all. The only thing being multiplied is the amount of SP you get per WP (maybe time in match as well, don't know and doesn't matter). For example after hitting the soft cap you have to earn at least 1,000 WP to earn the full 1,000 SP. During the triple SP event you would only have to earn 334 WP to earn 1,000 SP since 334 x 3 = 1,002.

And I'm assuming that it wouldn't make a difference whether they started on Wednesday or Thursday is because all they were doing is changing those two values. However, those values most likely occur several times in the game's code and interact with multiple aspects of the software. One of those interactions was overlooked or entered incorrectly or already contained an unnoticed bug that is causing the behavior we're seeing. Or maybe each instance on those values needed to be changed manually and one got missed or entered incorrectly.

So anyway, that's just how I see this whole situation and the reason I feel like I'm on a different page than a lot of players.

Give CCP a chance at fixing it before we start sperging.

The issue was raised as soon as the event was posted.
Instead of checking the code, the devs reported misinformation.
They had many days in advance to fix this, but wasted them because they made a careless error.
Now it will take twice as long to fix, if it is able to be fixed at all.

From my count, this is the third time that a dev has posted incorrect information carelessly in about a week.
Not an isolated incident. Easily avoidable.

everyone i know knew not to waste sp. i heard a rumor about CCP saying "no worries", but who believes anything they say?

i figured it would be the same as last time so i played an alt.

the easiest solution is sometimes the least palatable Chances.

If this isn't fixed by tomorrow I will stop playing dust along with a few other people. I cant play a game when there are this many bugs. Doesn't matter how good the game is but with "bugs" almost everytime they put something out it kills the game. Nerd RAGE QUIT

Can I have your ISK please?

Can I have your ISK please?

Here's how I see the situation and I'm curious to understand exactly where the disconnect is what I'm thinking and what everyone else has been thinking because every time I tried to understand what people thought was going on the more confused I got.

So as I see it the weekly cap is 190,400 SP. On Wednesday if earned that much SP you would hit the soft cap and earn 1 SP per WP up to 1,000 SP. On Thursday the weekly cap would be increased from 190,400 to 571,200 SP. At this point there is no "remainder" or anything else. There's simply more SP to be earned before you hit the cap. Same as if you don't cap out in a single day and come back the next day. You continue earning SP until you hit the cap, it's just that simple. So no matter what day you earned the SP, how much you got this day vs that day or whether or not the rate has been tripled yet or not makes absolutely no difference. The absolute maximum every player will earn before hitting the soft cap is 571,200 SP. So would someone explain how you could possibly "lose" SP by playing on Wednesday?

And as for the "multiplying" or "adding" thing I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about at all. The only thing being multiplied is the amount of SP you get per WP (maybe time in match as well, don't know and doesn't matter). For example after hitting the soft cap you have to earn at least 1,000 WP to earn the full 1,000 SP. During the triple SP event you would only have to earn 334 WP to earn 1,000 SP since 334 x 3 = 1,002.

And I'm assuming that it wouldn't make a difference whether they started on Wednesday or Thursday is because all they were doing is changing those two values. However, those values most likely occur several times in the game's code and interact with multiple aspects of the software. One of those interactions was overlooked or entered incorrectly or already contained an unnoticed bug that is causing the behavior we're seeing. Or maybe each instance on those values needed to be changed manually and one got missed or entered incorrectly.

So anyway, that's just how I see this whole situation and the reason I feel like I'm on a different page than a lot of players.

Give CCP a chance at fixing it before we start sperging.

Give CCP a chance at fixing it before we start sperging.

With Muck up's like this one I now have a great understanding why CCP said things will take Ten years to skill into.

If you didn't hit the soft cap on wednesday, let's say only made 90,000 SP, then after server down time at the beginning of the event they only added 190,400 SP to your cap. That would make a total of 380,800 not 571, 200 SP. Thus making the event a double SP cap for those who played on Wednesday but didn't cap. I am still getting the triple SP during battles but got a bit shortchanged in the overall cap. CCP is staffed by humans, unlike some of the trolls who play this game, and humans make mistakes. Sometimes its hard to plan for every possible outcome when planning events or programming new things. I am sure CCP does care about their customers and will do whatever they can, if they can, to fix their mistake

So I come back from being outside(it was gorgeous out today) and these dudes are still crying lol. Go to bed tomorrow is another day. Now im going to bed i will play dust tomorrow. CCP will get it fixed calm down breathe.

It's safe to play now, but you might hit the bugged cap. We'll resolve everyone with a bugged cap so you'll be able to hit the full cap by the end of the event. We're aiming to have a fixed deployed tomorrow during downtime so you'll get up to the full 570k-ish SP cap.

As for being unable to log into DUST, that was an issue due to a firewall configuration issue. EVE players also were unable to log in. We've fixed it and now everyone can log in as normal.

My interpretation of the blue was that you'd get 3*190,400 - whatever SP you earnt on wednesday

Yes but if it's not fixed by Saturday I'll rage hell.

They will fix it just in time to force a second full cap in 1 day. That was exciting!!