hope the dbl exp week is after they done patching

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  1. dorkish

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    but i have a feeling that they going to do it on the first patch day 26th which means it will be mostly wasted while we do patches for the whole week except the weekend when they don't patch :(
     
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    Why would it be mostly wasted? There is hardly ever any downtime with patches (that I've noticed anyways). I suppose if you have a slower connection it might be impactful....
     
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    ya fairly slow connection usally takes me least 2 to 4 hours depending on size so thats upto 4 to 8 hours a day i can spend patching depending on how many patches they have that week
     
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    i have a slow connection too; you can play and download at the same time if you use a seperate torrent client.
     
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    Did they get the 50 people on the test server today that they needed to reward us with double xp ? I couldn't make it.
     
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    there have been over 300, so yes, we get double xp
     
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    Yes. Actually it was something like 300+ they had to reboot the server to increase the login to accommodate so many people....

    We will get double XP next release. :)
     
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    If anyones interested, while over 300 people were on QA, steam still showed over 300 on live. And novia wasnt any less populated on live
     
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    rofl they had so many people show up they had multiple instances
     
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    how does that work ? cause i would love to do that
     
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    you can use the patcher to get the feeds started, close it, and then open the torrent file in a torrent client. limit it to leave, say, 80k of your bandwidth available for other uses and you can still play. once it's done, re-start the patcher, it'll see the complete file and run a quick verify on it and patch. you can even copy the patch file to other computers, as long as it's in the right directory.

    now, WHERE those files are stored, i don't know: i use linux and you're (most likely) on windows. if you do a search for StandaloneWindows (or StandaloneLinuxUniversal or StandaloneOSXIntel) you'll find your previous ones.

    if you want to take it a step further, you can watch the rss feeds yourself for the files rather than waiting for the patcher to see them. this is VERY useful because the patcher doesn't see them until they're actually set to live on the server. the files are sometimes available a long time before that, even the night before for the first monthly release patch. use a torrent program that can watch rss feeds, leave it running, and you'll get everything as it becomes available automatically. the feed is

    http://patchserver.shroudoftheavatar.com/sotalive/torrents/SotATorrentFeed.xml

    and i set rules to

    must contain StandaloneLinuxUniversal (or StandaloneOSXIntel or StandaloneWindows)

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    must NOT contain StandaloneLinuxUniversal_0 (modified for your os, of course. this keeps it from grabbing the patches that start from 0, so you'll only get the incremental updates).
     
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    hum thx Alley i'll have to look into that :)
     
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    Is the double xp on everything or just quests?
     
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    you get double xp for everything except crafting. (double crafting xp only for crafting quests).
     
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    OP makes a valid pointtttt
     
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    No love for crafting - darn it.
     
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    I only found one crafting quest
     
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    Most (all?) quests that award XP give the same amount of both types, this doubles the crafting XP from that as well as the adventuring XP. In particular, the final parts of all the main questlines will double to 200K adventuring and 200K crafting XP.
     
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    the 3 main quest lines also give crafting exp i belive
     
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    As Elwyn stated, pretty sure it is indeed ALL quests that double up on both adv and producer XP.
     
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