Memorial Day

Discussion in 'Time Locked Progression Servers' started by Lupercus, May 12, 2020.

  1. Lupercus New Member

    Is there going to be bonus xp during memorial day weekend this year?
  2. Accipiter Old Timer

  3. Herf Augur

    Looks like Memorial Day is the 25th. New TLPs open on the 27th. Hopefully they won't pull the old "we can't have an XP bonus when new servers are opened" like they did last time.
  4. HoodenShuklak Augur

    I think agnarr launched with a bonus?
  5. TLP Addict Augur

    Hoping for some 4th of July xp bonus to coincide with me PLing my new Mangler Berserker
  6. Xeris Augur

    It did
  7. sumnayin Augur

    Pretty sure Coirnav did as well, a long one
  8. Ecko Elder

    Month long one at 50% for Coirnav, was brutal when it was turned off!
  9. Bailen Augur

    I might actually be around for Memorial Weekend. I'm in a high risk group because of a health issue and will probably be self quarantining a lot of the time until they come up with a vaccine, even after they loosen up the lockdown.
  10. Protocol Dragon Defender

    Look at previous year Memorial Day exp bonuses. They start on Friday and end on Tuesday. Aradune and Rizlona launch on Wednesday. If Aradune and Rizlona got a bonus it would deviate from this trend.

    It did not. Agnarr got a bonus the day after launch.
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  11. Arrk Augur


    There is no "trend".

    If a server releases on/around a holiday it gets a bonus in correlation to that holiday/event... Agnarr got the bonus because it was released prior to memorial day. Coirnav/Mangler/Selo were released for Anniversary Celebrations so they got bonuses because of the events.

    Miragul did not...RF/LJ did not. Rizlona and Aradune are "trending" not to have one.
  12. Protocol Dragon Defender


    Sorry let me elaborate for you.

    Every year since at least 2012 there has a been a memorial day event. Every year that event ends on Tuesday following memorial day (a holiday which always falls on a Monday). This means that Aradune and Rizlona launching on the Wednesday after Memorial day will NOT have bonus exp unless they deviate from the last 7 years worth of memorial day event data.

    The trend I am referencing is not whether or not new servers get holiday bonus exp, the trend is the dates which memorial day bonus exp data is applied. The deviation from trend would be bonus events for memorial day going beyond the Tuesday following this holiday.

    https://www.everquest.com/news/eq-memorial-day-bonus-weekend-2019https://events.eqresource.com/index.php?action=display_month&phpcid=1&month=5&year=2018https://events.eqresource.com/index.php?action=display_month&phpcid=1&month=5&year=2017https://events.eqresource.com/index.php?action=display_month&phpcid=1&month=5&year=2016https://www.daybreakgames.com/news/memorial-day-weekend-member-summer-sale-2015https://www.everquest.com/news/memorial-day-2014-double-xphttps://www.everquest.com/news/emergency-server-downtime-05-24-2013https://www.everquest.com/news/imported-eq-enus-524275
    Thank you for your response!
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  13. Vindar Augur

    If that's the case they should start the servers earlier or extend the bonus exp. It would be really lame to be cheated out bonus exp like that.
  14. Accipiter Old Timer


    Cheated how? The two events (Memorial Day bonus xp and new servers opening) have nothing to do with one another.
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  15. Zansobar Augur

    It's the reason they (DPG) chose to launch the servers on May 27th instead of the previous Wednesday.
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  16. Zapford Elder


    A month with 50% bonus! Holy smokes. Could have had a bunch of max level characters by then.
  17. urbanbo70 Elder

    If server launch would have been on 5/22 that would have been perfect!
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  18. Herf Augur


    I believe Agnarr got "cheated" of an XP bonus a while back when some server went online, IIRC. Stated reason was they didn't want the new server to have bonus XP and they didn't have the ability to regulate bonus XP per server.
  19. Koggar.Bertoxxulous Elder

    Hey! I thought I was the only one! Glad to see at least some people planning on sticking it out on Mangler