12:37 UTC ~ 13:37 CET, servers still down?

It's 11:42 UTC.....

Dear players,

On Thursday, July 4th we deployed the Triple Skill Point event to Tranquility. After the deployment we discovered the script that was supposed to increase your Skill Point cap was not working as intended, increasing only the amount of skill points remaining to the original, 190.400 cap. This made players that already capped their skill points by playing from Wednesday to Thursday receive no skill point cap increase after the downtime on Thursday.

Because of this error, we will be deploying a new Triple SP script today (5th of July), to reset everyoneGÇÖs weekly Skill Point cap and increase it to its intended triple value GÇô 571.200 for the duration of this event.

DUST 514 will go offline for an extended period of time today and is expected to come back online at 12:00 GMT.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused on the first day of the event, and we hope that you will enjoy the remainder of this event.

-DUST 514 Community team

So if I cap today after down time I will have a whole weeks work of sp to grind again?

To be fair, no one (not even CCP, from what I've read) saw this coming. This was pretty spontaneous; you still have time to finish as much cap as you can though in the next couple hours. You would be surprised how much SP you can still gain if you aren't currently busy.

Why don't you just start these triple XP weeks on Wednesday when the cap is reset, CCP? Stop wasting time by creating problems unnecessarily that you then have to fix. Have you ever heard of the KISS principle? Keep It Simple Stupid (emphasis on Stupid)

It seems like DUST is a place where "Better Safe Than Sorry" doesn't exist.

Get a whole bunch of bugged money, money that doesn't belong to you and you know it's a bug that'll get fixed? No biggie, spend it all, you'll get to keep everything.

Do something stupid like Cap out before the 3x SP event starts? No problem, your cap will get reset, so you'll get 4x SP.

I guess next time something happens, I'll take the stupidest route, because it seems like I'll gain the most from that.

It seems like DUST is a place where "Better Safe Than Sorry" doesn't exist.

Get a whole bunch of bugged money, money that doesn't belong to you and you know it's a bug that'll get fixed? No biggie, spend it all, you'll get to keep everything.

Do something stupid like Cap out before the 3x SP event starts? No problem, your cap will get reset, so you'll get 4x SP.

I guess next time something happens, I'll take the stupidest route, because it seems like I'll gain the most from that.

It seems like DUST is a place where "Better Safe Than Sorry" doesn't exist.

Get a whole bunch of bugged money, money that doesn't belong to you and you know it's a bug that'll get fixed? No biggie, spend it all, you'll get to keep everything.

Do something stupid like Cap out before the 3x SP event starts? No problem, your cap will get reset, so you'll get 4x SP.

I guess next time something happens, I'll take the stupidest route, because it seems like I'll gain the most from that.

Since its very clear CCP can not manage SP. Can they give a 30 day omega to all who capped on Wednesday? That would make up for the SP missed out on and the possibility to gain a little extra for the "Overtime" we put in.

Why? Because you guys couldn't wait until Thursday to start playing and cap out? You seem like the type that feels entitled to equal treatment despite the dissonance between our conditions. So, the next time you ever get an opportunity to find yourself a benefit that gives you a LITTLE bit of an edge, I'm going to come on the forums and ask for everything you received, despite the fact that you took an opportunity by planning for it in advance.

Sorry mate, but this is the world of EVE Online; The people who use their brain more than their instinct for the pursuit of decision-making find themselves rewarded more than the common man.

(Of course, this is very context-specific, but in this scenario, if CCP gave Omega boosters to everyone who capped on Wednesday cause they COULDN'T wait until Thursday, they are going to **** off a lot of people, including myself.)

"Success always comes where preparation meets opportunity" -Henry Hartman

Why? Because you guys couldn't wait until Thursday to start playing and cap out? You seem like the type that feels entitled to equal treatment despite the dissonance between our conditions. So, the next time you ever get an opportunity to find yourself a benefit that gives you a LITTLE bit of an edge, I'm going to come on the forums and ask for everything you received, despite the fact that you took an opportunity by planning for it in advance.

Sorry mate, but this is the world of EVE Online; The people who use their brain more than their instinct for the pursuit of decision-making find themselves rewarded more than the common man.

(Of course, this is very context-specific, but in this scenario, if CCP gave Omega boosters to everyone who capped on Wednesday cause they COULDN'T wait until Thursday, they are going to **** off a lot of people, including myself.)

"Success always comes where preparation meets opportunity" -Henry Hartman

Thank you for the interest in the July events everyone, below are answers to your questions regarding the events.

Triple SP Event
1. The weekly SP cap will reset on Wednesday, July 3rd as usual after DT. If you hit your weekly in the first day then you will still be eligible for the extended SP cap for the event on Thursday. For example, if the weekly SP cap was 1000 and you hit the cap on Wednesday before the event starts, then on Thursday we will extend the weekly SP cap to 3000 so you will have an extra 2000 added to your weekly SP cap for the event. Of course, the number I used in the example is just an arbitray number and not the actual SP cap amounts in order to illustrate the point.

2. The passive SP gain and caps are not part of the triple SP event, so they will work normally.

3. Your extra SP earned from skill boosters do not count towards your weekly SP cap. For more info on that go to https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=74943&find=unread

Mordus' Challenge Event
1. The 100 Objective hack challenge includes all hackable objects in-game and includes vehicles, CRU, turrets, supply depots and the skirmish objectives.
2. Hack assists do not count.

The above info has been updated on the events dev blog. Thanks again for your feedbacks.

Many people who played on Wednesday did it not because they weren't paying attention, leaving them unaware of the event, or because of a failed understanding of the event. They did it because they wanted to play that day, understood what the intended result was and decided playing a few extra matches to get to that 570k number wasn't an issue. There was no reason to wait outside of playing less based on the intended change to the cap for the event.

This wasn't a lack of prep on their part. This wasn't a result of impatience on ignorance. This was the result of a system not performing as intended and giving unforeseeable advantages based upon the attempts by CCP to rectify the original mistake. There was no way to anticipate this and no use of your brain to prevent it. Your insults are completely baseless, and I suspect your understanding is possibly lacking based upon your failure to comprehend that.

LMAO "COULDN'T wait" & "brain more than instinct" Do some research with your brain instead of using your instinct to reply.