Quote Hey everyone,



I know that there was definitely some unhappiness that came out of this past double XP weekend and I wanted to address a little bit about what happened, and we are doing about it. There are two main issues which plagued the weekend: In certain group compositions, no experience is granted during a Flashpoint.

The Kuat Drive Yards Flashpoint was awarding only normal experience for NPC kills, it was not being doubled. Understandably, many players look to Flashpoints to level during our double XP weekends and so there is quite a bit of frustration that these bugs were present. Let's take them one at a time. The first bug, where no XP is being granted at all is something that we are aware of, and it will actually be fixed tomorrow in Game Update 2.6.2. The KDY issue, unfortunately, was only discovered after double XP went live and as such, there wasn't much that can be done.



Why not just cancel double XP until the issues are resolved?

I understand that if you intended to level through Flashpoints, this past weekend may not have been the best. However, there are many folks who were looking forward to the double XP weekend who level outside of Flashpoints and it would have been unfair to them to move the weekend out.



Why not just bring the servers down and fix these issues on Friday?

We would only do this in situations where there is a very critical issue present, such as a major exploit or an issue preventing players from playing at all.



What now?

I have spoken to the dev team and we are both in agreement that we should do another double XP weekend. Again, to readdress the issues from above, after tomorrow non-KDY Flashpoints should no longer have the issue where no experience will be awarded. As a note, I am still trying to get a timeline on when we would be able to address the KDY issue. Although it will be our goal to have both of these issues addressed before we have our next double XP, it is possible that KDY may not be addressed by then. However you will definitely be able to get double XP out of our other Flashpoints.



I know the big question right now is "when is the next double XP then?" I do not have that answer at this exact moment, but I am going to try to get that answer to you as soon as possible!



I apologize to those of you who were looking to "Flashpoint your face off" this weekend. We are going to work on getting you back into those Flashpoints with some double XP at your back soon.



-eric

Eric Musco | Community Manager

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