I think everyone should be happy that they can earn 2X SP for the week. I know it may cause battles to be played different because of AFK or people just going for hacks and turrets. It's only for 1 week and if you don't like how the battle is going then run a cheap suit and do what you can to survive.

Yes, I'm pointing out a glaring problem and why it matters and brainstorming solutions. Enlighten us as to the difference between whining and feedback if you would.

Actually, this is a thread about the 2x SP week so how about you go post in one of the hundreds of other threads about AFKing if you really have to do it. Oh, and whining is kinda like feedback, except my internal voice narrates it with a high pitched nerdy squeal.

(Darth Vader voice) Well genius...the reason this "Double" SP event is gimped down to only double WP, which account for less than half the SP from a round, is so that AFKing won't spike due to people exploiting the doubled 5 WP/sec in battle.

And to demonstrate in graph form the number of hours it will take to hit cap, you can clearly see that the 2x WP doesn't really reduce the grind very much from the 2x it is for merely AFKing.

Graph: http://i.imgur.com/SzTbIb6.png?1

Something much more substantial would be required.

Ok, so I missed the terminology because folks were saying passive sp. What's not being doubled is sp from the passive wp gain in battle, as opposed to from kills/hacks/logi?

Agreed. I don't see how this can help deter AFKing. If anything, you should AFK and cap tomorrow so you can play with doubled Active SP all week. Not saying I would do that......

From my understanding we will only earn x2 SP from War Points, which means that if you get 800 WP in a match you'll get 1600 SP from that instead of 800, on top of the 5 WP/sec you earn from just being in the battle. So it's far from a true Double SP event.

So this means that instead of getting only 1,000 wp per match after the cap, that would now be 2,000...and with a booster, 3000!

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Why not something simpler which doesn't spit new players in the face who can't get 200 WP. I guess the simplest possible method to fix AFKing would be: 1SP for each second in match and 5SP for every warpoint earned. Just switching the numbers.

Been doing some measurements of SP earned both from being active and being afk during this event today.

Each AFK number is taken from a domination where I joined from start to finish

4035
4563
6200 (Both sides delayed capturing the objective until both MCCs were down to 50% armor.
4302

These numbers below were taken with active participation (I am a sniper, not a plinker.)

4021 (600wp)
5233 (1500wp) [Our team pubstomped the other bad.]
3556 (200 wp) [On the receiving end of a pubstomp]
4243 (500wp)


So far, this event only encourages more pubstomping, and afking gives just the same benefits without the stress of being on the receiving end of a pubstomp.


There's been good suggestions and graphs on how to run this better to encourage more active players, but this event right now only benefits the people in all proto gear picking on the less fortunate.

While I'm veering off topic a bit, why don't we have Hi-Sec and Low-Sec, where Low-Sec doesn't allow anything prototype in? Considering how fast you get out of academy now, it's pretty disheartening to the new player to be continually f****d by the guy who's got 15m sp.