Editing Announcements - 2010/04 - Shedding Skin (section)

=== Bonus XP Weekends ===
{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = April 20th, 2010
 |      Link =
 |      Text = With a new race and many players returning to the game, we will be having a bonus quest experience weekend starting sometime before 6 pm on Friday April 23 and ending after midnight on Sunday April 26. All quest XP rewards during that time will be increased by 50% for a total of 150% experience.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = April 26th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=503595#post503595
 |  Question = 1) Weekends are good for a lot of players, but some players can't do weekends. I'm one that seldom plays Friday - Sunday. Can we get one that starts on Thursday perhaps? 2) Questing is awesome, but a lot of people like to hunt as well. It would be nice if hunting had a bonus of xp as well. Perhaps Questing gets 50% boost and hunting 25%?
 |      Text = Both are very valid points, and good suggestions. The team can talk about changing up times and adding some variety for future events.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = April 27th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=503954#post503954
 |  Question = Would it be possible to let everyone schedule their own "window" for bonus xp? For example, talk to an NPC when you are ready to start your 3-day bonus xp period and for the next 3 days you get that bonus. That would allow people to have a little more flexibility. The NPC could disappear after some period of time. Even better would be to have the game track in-game time for the account...maybe allow 24 hrs. of actual play time. That way real players would benefit more than UCMs.
 |      Text = Things we like about bonus quest XP events:

~ Lots of people playing at the same time.
~ Lots of people interacting by grouping for big quests.

We are hoping players have fun with increased opportunities to interact with other players, and the newer players can learn how experienced players run quests they might not have done before. It's not designed to simply be extra reward, but rather a social event that is triggered by that extra reward during the weekend.

Scheduling events during the week can still accomplish that, but we don't see XP tokens accomplishing the same thing.

Sev~
 | Developer = Severlin
 |     Title = Producer
}}

{{Turbine Developer
 |      Date = May 6th, 2010
 |      Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?&postid=505635#post505635
 |  Question = Any chance of another XP weekend soon?
 |      Text = There is always a chance.
 | Developer = Frelorn
 |     Title = AC Community Relations
}}