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Double XP! Spread the word.

nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
edited September 2013 in Champions Online Discussion
Apparently its not common enough knowledge yet, so break out that friends list and double check that your associates aren't running around without their Double XP Weekend Buff.

Cryptic maybe you need to annoy everyone with a cut scene for this stuff?

Cut scenes for important things, the things that make people happy seeing them : teenage girl in see through skirt giving them a magical buff. Yay.

Anyway here's my first ten minutes of Double XP weekend.


[13:21] [Tell] To A: got your double xp?
[13:21] [Tell] A: don't think so
[13:21] [Tell] To A: Go see Witchcraft at powerhouse on all your toons
[13:22] [Tell] A: Alright :D

[13:22] [Tell] To B: got your double xp?
[13:22] [Tell] To C: got your double xp?
[13:22] [Tell] C: Um, not sure, whats the best way to check?
[13:22] [Tell] B: Ummm don't think so
[13:22] [Tell] To C: should have an XP icon that says double xp weekend under your icon
[13:23] [Tell] C: Nope, I do not have that
[13:23] [Tell] To B: see Witchcraft at the city powerhouse on all your characters
[13:23] [Tell] To C: see Witchcraft at the city powerhouse on all your characters

[13:23] [CoX] Happy_Cox_Channel_Citizen: i really like how double xp works in co. so nice to know that ic an get at least 4 fours of it for every toon whether i play it this weekend or not

[13:23] [Tell] To C: buff lasts 4 hours can be replenishes as often as you need all weekend
[13:24] [Tell] C: Nice, thanks for the info
[13:24] [Tell] B: Where can I find her in millenium city?
[13:25] [Tell] To B: at the powerhouse
[13:25] [Tell] A: where is she in the powerhouse?
[13:26] [Tell] To A: outside

[13:28] [Tell] To Forum_Girl: you got your double xp?
[13:29] [Tell] Forum_Girl: yepyep :D
[13:29] [Tell] To Forum_Girl: goodgood

[13:29] [Tell] To D: you got your double xp?
[13:29] [Tell] D: yep :D
[13:29] [Tell] D: i got 3 different XP boosts :3

[13:29] [Tell] To E: you got your double xp?
[13:29] [Tell] E: indeed, I'm doing some respecing currently

[13:29] [Tell] To F: you got your double xp?
[13:29] [Tell] F: im not sure....
[13:29] [Tell] To F: see witchcraft in front of the city powehouse
[13:29] [Tell] To F: on all your characters

[13:29] [Tell] A: Okay I think I got it.
[13:29] [Tell] To A: good

[13:32] [Tell] B: Thanks for the tip, I am gonna head back to canada now

[13:32] [Tell] F i got a 20% xp boost
[13:32] [Tell] F: how do i get the double?
[13:32] [Tell] To F: witchcraft in front of the powerhouse
[13:32] [Tell] F: cool! thanx!


I had to give up on the friend's list at this point. Sorry buddies.
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    flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    You can't force people to check dai...weekl...monthly, what is happening in a game they lov....lik...play.
    I wonder what happens when somekind of electronic 'web' kind of thing between computers happens and people are able to keep up with what happens in rest of the world and each others every second. That would be kind of a cool thing.
    You could you know, send a one informative message into your Friendchannel. No need to go thru whole shabang. Actually, i don't think i have ever gotten a /tell that is marked Friend. I think.
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    agentnx5agentnx5 Posts: 1,999 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    What this wasn't enough?

    http://co.perfectworld.com/news/?p=972421

    It's right on the launcher for Pete's Sake!
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    limblacklimblack Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Haha, double xp does fun tho :)
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    draogndraogn Posts: 1,269 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Or rather then annoy people with cut scenes, they could have these double xp weekends more often.
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    agentnx5agentnx5 Posts: 1,999 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    draogn wrote: »
    Or rather then annoy people with cut scenes, they could have these double xp weekends more often.

    As an individual this is nice, but on the whole, for the community, it's not a good idea to overdo this. There's drawbacks to this, the same drawbacks Smash Alerts created. I welcome the Double XP, but I also understand the reasons why it needs to be a special occurrence and not overdone.

    However...

    I would strongly recommend getting rid of unwanted and annoying "Vehicle Mod Hour" and instead increasing the XP, resource, and Questionite hour frequency. But that's getting somewhat off topic.
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    draogndraogn Posts: 1,269 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    agentnx5 wrote: »
    As an individual this is nice, but on the whole, for the community, it's not a good idea to overdo this. There's drawbacks to this, the same drawbacks Smash Alerts created. I welcome the Double XP, but I also understand the reasons why it needs to be a special occurrence and not overdone.

    However...

    I would strongly recommend getting rid of unwanted and annoying "Vehicle Mod Hour" and instead increasing the XP, resource, and Questionite hour frequency. But that's getting somewhat off topic.

    What drawback other then people level faster? People ignore the same linear mission path that they've already done multiple times?

    It doesn't need to be every week, even every two or three months. There are some benefits to having the xp weekends, it draws players back to the game. At least from what I can see, there are a lot more people today then normal.
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    nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    These friends get special treatment for their creative naming.

    [16:04] [Tell] To Assassin#10,000,000: double XP in Champions ONline!
    [16:05] [Tell] Assassin#10,000,000: srry don't play co anymore :)

    [16:05] [Tell] To asassin#9,999,999: got your DOUBLE XP BUFF?

    now back to my clueless Alphabetical buddies.

    [16:06] [Tell] To G: got your DOUBLE XP?
    [16:06] [Tell] To J: got your double XP buff?

    [16:07] [Tell] G: yuppers
    [16:07] [Tell] To K: got your double xp?
    [16:07] [Tell] To L: got your double xp?

    [16:08] [Tell] L: no, not realy
    [16:08] [Tell] To L: go to Witchcraft in front of the powerhouse, on all your characters
    [16:09] [Tell] To L: buff lasts 4 hours and can be replenished all weekend
    [16:09] [Tell] L: okay, thx

    [16:12] [Tell] L: Oh, yeah thats alot!! Thank for the help
    [16:13] [Tell] To L: sure thing
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    crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,591 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    agentnx5 wrote: »
    What this wasn't enough?

    http://co.perfectworld.com/news/?p=972421

    It's right on the launcher for Pete's Sake!

    A great deal of people don't even pay attention to that.
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    shadowzero66shadowzero66 Posts: 331 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Haven't Burst Alerts already made leveling easy enough? It seems like the double XP buff is just an added layer of overkill.
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    fudgemonstafudgemonsta Posts: 1,591 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Haven't Burst Alerts already made leveling easy enough? It seems like the double XP buff is just an added layer of overkill.

    Smash.

    And it doubles that XP amount too.

    I've gotten three toons to 40 already today.
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    nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Every level 40 is another character slot for a subscriber.
    Character slots are good fun.

    Oh and going with the them of knowledge is power and all that.

    [21:44] [Zone #2] Girl in underwear: can someone add me to there sg? Please :D ;D
    [21:44] [GuildFeedback] Girl in underwear has been invited to System.
    [21:44] [GuildFeedback] Girl in underwear has joined System.
    [21:45] [Zone #2] Girl in underwear: Thank you ! :D
    [21:45] [Super Group] Me: bet you could use a new costume eh
    [21:46] [Tell] To Girl in underwear: you got your double xp ?
    [21:46] [Tell] Girl in underwear: Yeah i think so
    [21:47] [Tell] To Girl in underwear: you can refresh it all weekend from witchcraft
    [21:47] [Tell] Girl in underwear: Oh cool! i didnt know that. Thanks for letting me know :)
    [21:48] [Tell] To Girl in underwear: no problem!
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    jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,317 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    [21:44] [Zone #2] Girl in underwear: can someone add me to there sg? Please :D ;D
    [21:44] [GuildFeedback] Girl in underwear has been invited to System.
    [21:44] [GuildFeedback] Girl in underwear has joined System.
    [21:45] [Zone #2] Girl in underwear: Thank you ! :D
    [21:45] [Super Group] Me: bet you could use a new costume eh
    [21:46] [Tell] To Girl in underwear: you got your double xp ?
    [21:46] [Tell] Girl in underwear: Yeah i think so
    [21:47] [Tell] To Girl in underwear: you can refresh it all weekend from witchcraft
    [21:47] [Tell] Girl in underwear: Oh cool! i didnt know that. Thanks for letting me know :)
    [21:48] [Tell] To Girl in underwear: no problem!
    Please tell me the toon's name actually was "Girl In Underwear"... :biggrin:
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    nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    It wasn't, but after writing that, I felt that it was a perfectly valid Champions Online kind of name.

    Oops forgot my chat log. But yet another friend, someone who has a lifetime sub and has been playing two years, asked me "How do you know we have Double XP?"

    Sigh.
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    itsbrou#5396 itsbrou Posts: 1,778 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Brou in Cryptic games.
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    chalupaoffurychalupaoffury Posts: 2,553 Arc User
    edited September 2013

    lol that link talks about "Frosaken world". The mental pictures.
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    jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,317 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    lol that link talks about "Frosaken world". The mental pictures.
    "Why can't I get my frizzy hairstyle to work any more?"

    "Our world has been frosaken..."
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    trailturtletrailturtle Posts: 5,496 Perfect World Employee
    edited September 2013
    jonsills wrote: »
    "Why can't I get my frizzy hairstyle to work any more?"

    "Our world has been frosaken..."

    Ba-dum-tish.
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    finalslapsfinalslaps Posts: 198 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Maybe Sapphire could shout out double xp after her song.

    "We... are............ saving the woooorld.... truly outrageous........ and TRULY OUTRAGEOUS....."
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    solardynamosolardynamo Posts: 139 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Man was waiting for one...took a vacation and missed it. Needs to be emailed out or something.
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    zahinderzahinder Posts: 2,382 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Yay double xp! Go nowhere twice as fast!
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    jonesing4jonesing4 Posts: 800 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I think events like this are primarily for people who play the game.
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