News Bonus Weekend: Trade & Engineering - Now live! (24/05 to 30/05)

[Kzak]

Slight offtopic, but there is a beggar in Witcher 3 that complains that his leprosy was cured by this random healer and he used to be well prospering leper and now he's just a poor beggar

First seen in 'Life of Brian,' I think. "Alms for an ex-leper!"

 

[rootsrat]

First seen in 'Life of Brian,' I think. "Alms for an ex-leper!"

Ah, yes, I thought I've seen that somewhere else. In fact I was wondering whether it was LoB or Witcher 3

 

[Stigbob]

Slight offtopic, but there is a beggar in Witcher 3 that complains that his leprosy was cured by this random healer and he used to be well prospering leper and now he's just a poor beggar

I'll give him money, if I ever get round to playing that.

 

[Cmdrcraft]

Hey cmdrs, so quick one, I am being charged grade 5 materials for my grade 5 upgrades so I'm not benefiting from this weeken unfortunately, is it something I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for any advice or help o7

 

[rootsrat]

Hey cmdrs, so quick one, I am being charged grade 5 materials for my grade 5 upgrades so I'm not benefiting from this weeken unfortunately, is it something I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for any advice or help o7

The Bonus Weekend is now over.

 

[Truesilver]

Hi Edward... please tell me that is not the official statement? I farmed ALL weekend and in the end did not get ANY engineering done. It finished on the 29th, NOT the 30th, and certainly NOT anywhere near 11am UTC time. Unfortunetately it takes a seriously LONG TIME to find materials in this game. It took me all weekend to get what I needed, and then poof, the finish line moved and I just wasted an entire weekend nearly killing myself for nothing

No it didn't, I was engineering under the discount this morning and it reverted around 11 am on the 30th exactly as they said it would.

NOT on PS4 it didn't. I put in a support ticket, posted on here, and put in a bug report. I had just finsihed farming and had just got to Plieades in a slow cutter to get a bunch of Thrusters modded, a lot of thrusters I had sent over there, and it was over.

NO... we had untill 11UTC this morning 12 GMT, but it ended last night around 12am on the 29th, about 11 hours before it should have ended

Just to confirm that I am playing on PC and based in UK. This morning, 30th May, I engineered a Plasma Accelerator from g1 to g5 using the downgraded bonus weekend mats, at 09:00 UTC (10:00 am UK). I didn't experience any glitches before then and for me the event did not end on the 29th.

I'm sorry if it was different on other platforms or in other time zones, hopefully Support will help if so.

 

[Taimaru]

Dear Frontier,

I would like to thank you for the Bonus weekend as I thoroughly enjoyed being able to double my trading profits on my normal trading route and also being able to do some engineering I had been planning to do for a while.

This may have been a one-off, which is great in itself, however, I would be very happy if you decide to do these kind of events again, either for special weekends or at regular intervals.

Many thanks,
CMDR Taimaru

 

[Stigbob]

Hey cmdrs, so quick one, I am being charged grade 5 materials for my grade 5 upgrades so I'm not benefiting from this weeken unfortunately, is it something I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for any advice or help o7

I'm afraid you missed it matey, however it seems to have been very popular so there may be either another one or an engineers balancing pass.

 

[Crazy Joe]

So I guess they are now going to drop patch 3.1 where the Thargoids destroy all the engineers before turning their attention to Sol?

 

[fico74]

So I guess they are now going to drop patch 3.1 where the Thargoids destroy all the engineers before turning their attention to Sol?

Ah ah ah I thought the same!
A friend on FB told his wife wat thinking about this initiative like the healing room before the boss.
But... to be honest, another one commented with the most cynical: +money = +ships = +decals sold; +engineers = +used ships = + decals sold. No real intention behind, just mere profit. In this case, we have nothing to worry about.

 

[Decaf]

Yeah I dunno, maybe Japan was all like "POOL THE PLUG! POOL THE PLUG NOW!" on the ps4 guys. >_<

Anyone else getting a server error when trying to apply experimental effects to beams? Namely thermal vent.

 

[Flimley]

I managed to engineer pretty much ‘To The Max’ all of my 14 ships. 4 of which were almost complete anyway, and the rest partially.
I even purchased a T-6 and Beluga then fully engineered those for purpose ! This bonus weekend was a good move as many of us long term players were left with legacy modules (which were now inferior). And the thought of G5’ing everything again was...... a less than spiffing prospect. Well done Frontier !

Flimley

Addition, Yes, I even G5’d some extra spectulive modules for the upcoming Krait... [yesnod]

 

[aRJay]

DRAW A CLOCK FACE FGS! - they only work in analogue in Cambridge, they haven't gone digital YET!

eg. they still push their boats along with a long stick

From the wrong end according to the people from Oxford.

 

[Prasinus]

Thank you for the engineering bonus, FD. Hopefully you will repeat it in the future, or perhaps individual engineers could have special offer weekends?

 

[Truesilver]

I would also like to thank Frontier for the event, which I found enjoyable and very helpful.

o7

 

[aRJay]

Apart from us forumites confusing ourselves I think this went quite well and I look forward to future variations on a theme, as far as the engineering side went scheduling less interesting CGs against it would have helped me allocate my time better.

So well done Frontier I will be interested to see what activities get boosted next time, but please at least hint at the in game reasons when the next one is rolled out just to reduce the amount of NaCl around.

 

[Grainger]

I too made good use of the weekend - got my trading Load Lugger out of the shipyard, looked at possibilities, and went for the community goal at Meredith City being pretty much home base. I smuggled in 60,000 odd tons of narcotics min my Cutter, and shipped out similar quantities of performance enhancers and resonating separators, and made a huge pile of cash - never interdicted and only fined once due to carelessness on my part (fine was only 1/3 of my profits!). Ended up as top-ten commander drug dealer in an appropriately cool craft! I didn't play stupid hours, but did more last week than probably the previous month, and had a lot of fun using EDDB and the galaxy map to find profitable runs, progressively more complex as the nearby stations depleted. If Frontier wanted to rekindle interest and playing, they scored a great success for my part ... so to all the sceptics and nay sayers from earlier in this thread ... sorry you missed out ...