Regular DXP Weekends

[Kistulot]

Hiya, everyone!

 

People seem to *really* be loving this weekend, and the devs seem to really hate farming activities (some of the nerfs are *definitely* targeting those sorts of things, and always have) so I have a suggestion.

 

Monthly, or bimonthly, DXP weekends.

 

It may make it less exciting, but it also may draw people in more regularly, which is important when we go a year without much besides bugfixes. That's understandable for a whole smattering of reasons, but imho if the community likes something... telling them they can get it more often, and on a schedule, that sounds pretty cool to me?

[Psyonico]

I wouldn’t want them to do it too much, but I’m sure it’s popular.

 

 Maybe every 3-4 months?  That way it’s still common but it’s not like *all the time*

[Kistulot]

Just now, Psyonico said:

I wouldn’t want them to do it too much, but I’m sure it’s popular.

 

 Maybe every 3-4 months?  That way it’s still common but it’s not like *all the time*

 

It'd still only be two days, maybe three at most, every month or two months, etc.

 

I don't think they'd need to be spread THAT far out.

 

The XP with slapping on the buff is still great anyway, so it's less of a "we need this" and more of a "hey, this is cool" so I think also if it was more regular it would encourage healthier play habits (IE less reason to go "eh I can sleep/eat later, it's DXP")

[Lunar Ronin]

Bear in mind that not everyone likes double XP.  I regularly avoided playing on double XP weekends back on live.  Two people complained about this double XP on Reddit because they are trying to do story arcs without outleveling them.  I had to cancel my Saturday Praetorian static team late Friday night because of it, as doing a Praetoria completionist run with regular XP is a pain in the rear as it is.

[MTeague]

I have no opinion. I deliberately level slow, but I know where the "No Xp" toggle is.

[General Idiot]

People are loving it precisely because it doesn't happen that often. If they made them a regular thing they wouldn't be nearly as special.

 

And honestly, it's not like leveling on Homecoming is all that slow to begin with that it needs speeding up even more.

[Doomguide2005]

Perhaps rotate it through the various servers if doing it monthly or whatever time span is deemed 'good'.  Folks who want the 2xp bump well we do have plenty of server transfers available giving both the option.  And or replace or add it to the WST list as a 2xp weekend.  I personally don't really care one way or another though it's good for giving some of my less played alts a boost.  I certainly do agree with @General Idiotit's not difficult as is.  

[Psamanthe]

If the current pattern means anything, once a year with specific conditions is fine with me.  I would be okay if the next one is in 2026 and tied to something spontaneous, or "Because there's new something, we turned it on for these shards or one specific one and not the rest for a couple of months." (I dunno, maybe PvP makes a comeback?)

[Rudra]

Do I have to say it or is it a given? ... I'll say it anyway. No thank you.

 

Back on Live, the double XP weekends made sense because leveling on Live was so much slower. On Homecoming, we already level far faster than we ever did back on Live. Add to that, we have access to x2 XP constantly already. All we have to do is talk to the START vendor and have it applied.

 

So, again, no thank you.

[kelika2]

this would be good for 3 day weekends or the longer end of the year holidays

[Kistulot]

2 hours ago, Lunar Ronin said:

Bear in mind that not everyone likes double XP.  I regularly avoided playing on double XP weekends back on live.  Two people complained about this double XP on Reddit because they are trying to do story arcs without outleveling them.  I had to cancel my Saturday Praetorian static team late Friday night because of it, as doing a Praetoria completionist run with regular XP is a pain in the rear as it is.

 

If they'd known a DXP weekend was coming up, they, like you, could level something else during the time, or go elsewhere 🙂

 

There's clearly enough people that do enjoy it for the way that everlasting has been the last few days.

[Rudra]

5 minutes ago, Kistulot said:

If they'd known a DXP weekend was coming up,

And if they don't, like I didn't?

 

5 minutes ago, Kistulot said:

or go elsewhere

How considerate of you.

[Kistulot]

I swear unless the idea is one that everyone would like all the time, and has no chance of upsetting anyone, even vaguely suggesting it on the forums is just asking for abuse.

 

Note: this isn't to everyone, but...

 

1 minute ago, Rudra said:

How considerate of you.

 

There are other things to do besides city. There are other ways to play city besides leveling 1-50. 

 

But it's nice to see that some people haven't changed and continue to make this place feel hostile.

[golstat2003]

2 hours ago, Doomguide2005 said:

Perhaps rotate it through the various servers if doing it monthly or whatever time span is deemed 'good'.  Folks who want the 2xp bump well we do have plenty of server transfers available giving both the option.  And or replace or add it to the WST list as a 2xp weekend.  I personally don't really care one way or another though it's good for giving some of my less played alts a boost.  I certainly do agree with @General Idiotit's not difficult as is.  

This rotation of it per server is really a good idea. Perhaps also grant folks some extra server transfers during that weekend so folks that want to move to another server during (like from Excelsior to Everlasting for instance) the time that can do so.

[Rudra]

31 minutes ago, Kistulot said:

There are other things to do besides city.

Yes, there are. If someone wants to play City of though and they don't want and never use double XP, and the response is to go elsewhere? That is pretty hostile. (Edit: And having a smiley face with it does not make it any less so.) It is you saying others don't matter, the game belongs to you and those that think like you alone, so it doesn't matter if those that don't want to play with x2 XP want to play, go somewhere else. That may not be your intent, but that is how it reads. You specifically said "go elsewhere". Not "okay, I get that others want to play different from me, so let's talk about how we can, like maybe asking for it to be an option", which it already is in START. It's "go elsewhere".

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Rudra
Edited to add missed "with x2 XP want to play".

[Lunar Ronin]

1 minute ago, Rudra said:

Yes, there are. If someone wants to play City of though and they don't want and never use double XP, and the response is to go elsewhere? That is pretty hostile. It is you saying others don't matter, the game belongs to you and those that think like you alone, so it doesn't matter if those that don't want to play, go somewhere else. That may not be your intent, but that is how it reads. You specifically said "go elsewhere". Not "okay, I get that others want to play different from me, so let's talk about how we can, like maybe asking for it to be an option", which it already is in START. It's "go elsewhere".

 

That's the great and welcoming modern Homecoming community we all know and love.  They've been telling people who prefer to play City of Heroes as it was played back on live to go elsewhere for years.

[Glacier Peak]

I'd rather it be tied to a special event instead of a regular thing. New content released? Sure. Big holiday weekend or HC-ran/sponsored event? Go for it. 

 

Every weekend? No. 

[Psyonico]

36 minutes ago, Kistulot said:

But it's nice to see that some people haven't changed and continue to make this place feel hostile.

People disagreeing does not make the place hostile.

 

 I’ll quote the only comment I’ve seen that I would consider hostile:

 

46 minutes ago, Kistulot said:

or go elsewhere

 

[lemming]

3 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

I'd rather it be tied to a special event instead of a regular thing. New content released? Sure. Big holiday weekend or HC-ran/sponsored event? Go for it. 

 

Every weekend? No. 

Special times, though some more warning before hand would have been nice.

[Greycat]

For the most part back on live, we didn't have 2xp boosters. And depending on when (as in year, not time,) leveling could have been insanely slow. So 2xp weekends were... more welcomed there. 

 

Here? 2xp is a brief stop to click something at a vendor. The only time 2xp (or 125 or 150%) isn't available is when the servers are down for maintenance. Any "specialness" of it is, frankly, nonexistent. 

 

I ended up hearing "oh, and it stacks!" and ... just shook my head. I have alts. Tons of them. So I'm aware of leveling lesser used characters. And frankly I'm avoiding playing certain characters because... I don't have 2xp on them and don't want their XP boosted. They'll be at 50 fast enough. I look at this weekend being a thing and just have to ask "why?" New powersets? Others were released and didn't have it. And again... 2xp is available 24/7 for those who want it, while those who don't can ignore it and level normally - versus "Twice the XP or none at all," which is the choice foisted on everyone on these weekends. 

 

If 2xp weekends in the current climate are going to be a thing, then pair it with the availability of -50% XP tokens so those who want a normal leveling experience can have that versus the choice of "Deal with it or don't play." 

[Ghost]

13 hours ago, Kistulot said:

I swear unless the idea is one that everyone would like all the time, and has no chance of upsetting anyone, even vaguely suggesting it on the forums is just asking for abuse.

 

Note: this isn't to everyone, but...

 

 

There are other things to do besides city. There are other ways to play city besides leveling 1-50. 

 

But it's nice to see that some people haven't changed and continue to make this place feel hostile.

This is not hostile in the least.

Disagreeing with an idea is not hostile or abuse.

Explaining why you disagree is not hostile or abuse.

 

No one called you names, belittled you, or made fun of you or your idea - THAT would be abuse and/or hostility.

 

However, telling someone they can go somewhere else if they don’t like something…..now that could be considered hostile.

Edited 9 hours ago by Ghost

[Kistulot]

The last thing I'm going to say here, and hopefully, the last time I'll feel like posting literally anything:

 

Telling someone they can NOT PLAY A GAME FOR UP TO FOUR DAYS IS NOT HOSTILE.

 

It wasn't a "they can fuck off" it was literally "there are other things in life you can do".

 

Honestly if being told not even to touch grass, but to consider that if some event is happening you dislike you can do something else is such a big thing, you need to change your life a bit. Sorry. That's not me being hostile, it's life is more than an mmo.

 

If that reality being brought up is distasteful... seriously.

 

Addiction sucks.

 

Please get help.

[Rudra]

8 minutes ago, Kistulot said:

The last thing I'm going to say here, and hopefully, the last time I'll feel like posting literally anything:

 

Telling someone they can NOT PLAY A GAME FOR UP TO FOUR DAYS IS NOT HOSTILE.

 

It wasn't a "they can fuck off" it was literally "there are other things in life you can do".

 

Honestly if being told not even to touch grass, but to consider that if some event is happening you dislike you can do something else is such a big thing, you need to change your life a bit. Sorry. That's not me being hostile, it's life is more than an mmo.

 

If that reality being brought up is distasteful... seriously.

 

Addiction sucks.

 

Please get help.

That is sooooooo not it.

 

If people want to do something, but that something is changed and the response is go do something else? For most of the week? That is hostile. You may not mean it that way, but it is. Your response, regardless of how you intended it, is along the lines of who cares if you want to play the game. Go somewhere else for four days. Do you really think anyone needs anyone else to tell them that there are other things they can do? I assure you no one needs to be told that. I personally do many things over the course of the week. Playing City of is one of them. And being told 'hey, just go somewhere else for the next four days so I and my friends can have the game changed to the way we want to play but you don't' is hostile.

 

Edit again: Because you are very much telling others to stop playing or play the way you want in a game we are already enjoying but don't want to have to put up with something you and others can already opt into any time you want but for those four days our only option is to not play or play with xp turned off.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Rudra
Edited to correct "pay" to "play".

[Ghost]

41 minutes ago, Kistulot said:

The last thing I'm going to say here, and hopefully, the last time I'll feel like posting literally anything:

 

Telling someone they can NOT PLAY A GAME FOR UP TO FOUR DAYS IS NOT HOSTILE.

 

It wasn't a "they can fuck off" it was literally "there are other things in life you can do".

 

Honestly if being told not even to touch grass, but to consider that if some event is happening you dislike you can do something else is such a big thing, you need to change your life a bit. Sorry. That's not me being hostile, it's life is more than an mmo.

 

If that reality being brought up is distasteful... seriously.

 

Addiction sucks.

 

Please get help.

Totally not a hostile post.

Nope.  Not hostile in the slightest.

🙄🙄🙄

Edited 3 hours ago by Ghost

[Indystruck]

Just turn off your XP if you don't want 2XP

 

It's cheap, it's easy, it's free