Along with the daily ‘Skilling Spree’ event, apparently todays downtime began the usual ‘Log in for Skills Week’ with the daily awards of SP, Cerebral accelerators, etc.
Am I totally missing whatever service they are using to announce these things these days? Discord or Reddit or something? Or is CCP just pushing everything they can out the door without any advance notice?
(Edit: Launcher/blog notification was put up about 30 mins after I posted this. Blog refers to 8 days/200,000 SP for Alphas, claim list shows 7 days 175,000 SP. Omegas also appear to be 25,000 short of the claimed 650,000 SP.)
Yeah this was out of the blue, and kinda disappointing. I like free skill points, but the timing on this lends to no Crimson Harvest event… which would be really disappointing.
Can I petition CCP not to mess with the launcher this period? Only yesterday I was able to log-in again after last Monday’s launcher patch. It required an elaborate proces of deleting EVE-folders, lengthy re-downloads and whatnot.
This was the second time in a month’s time it happened after a launcher update.
The Mac forums are full of people reporting log-in inabilities, or if they can now (like me) an unplayable game.
The daily skilling spree is a no-no for me as a result, which is bad enough, and I would hate to lose the daily log-in rewards as well.
The campaign only includes 7 days of rewards. it’s 8 days long so if you accidentally miss a day you can still get all 7 days of rewards.
That said, the tears will flow on the 9th day with stories about how CCP is a monstrosity because they couldn’t long in for 2 days because of RL and their 14 starving kids etc etc etc.