Twice the Double Campaign! (05/22/2013)

[noodles355]

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/...530_152137.png

That is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

[Sofo]

I so hope they repeat this campaign in the upcoming months. It'd be a nice way to do Salvage and finish off some pieces for my friends and I!

[Sechs]

The logical consensus seems to be that the drop rate is doubled, not the drops themselves, aka 1-2 plans becomes 2-4, 0-1 > -0-2, etc...

Seems the case, yeah.

In our Bhaf run we either got 2 or 4 drops from every mob, only exception being the chainspell rdm Troll who dropped 3 Tutelary and 1 ritualistic, leaving us a bit wtf.
So yeah, I guess only the possible slots are doubled.
Still pretty nice though.

[Rosalie]

The campaign is officially a double double now!

Greetings everyone!

I’d like to apologize for any confusion and also for the misinformation on this.

The number of design plans that drop is not what is being doubled; it is actually a doubling of the drop rates.

Due to this error we will be extending the campaign until Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 7:59am PDT. We will also be making an announcement on PlayOnline early next week and changing the name of this campaign to “Design Plan Drop Rate Doubled Campaign.”

[Eanae]

Wait, so the drops we're getting now were a mistake? I'm confused by their wording even more now.

[Rosalie]

They're not a mistake, just poor explanation at the start. The drops aren't doubled, but the drop rate is.

[Prothescar]

uh...

[Draylo]

The drops seem doubled to me.

[pooter01]

Both explanations are a bit inaccurate.

Drop slots are doubled(which some can see as doubling drop rate, but adds the option of getting two of the 50% drops instead of just 1).

As someone already pointed out, nms go from:

100% plan
50% plan

to:

100% plan
*100% plan
50% plan
*50% plan

(using 50% just for sake of ease)

This allows in this case, 2 100% drops, and 2 chances at an additional drop meaning anywhere from 2 to 4 drops from that NM.

[Prothescar]

The drops seem doubled to me.

Yeah... pretty sure they aren't supposed to drop 3~4 plans at a time normally. Idk, whatever. Not complaining that's for sure.

[Cairthenn]

I think the naming was pretty much exactly correct. The existing drop pools were doubled. Doubling the plans if they dropped (which is apparently what was expected?) would lead to the same average, so..

[Outlaw]

So wait.. the Salvage drop thing is going to last a whole month now? Or am I reading that wrong?

[Cairthenn]

Yup, they extended it.

[Kaisha]

Yup, they extended it.

And then hopefully indefinitely. I like the idea of getting close to one piece of gear done a week when splitting plans among the other two in the group.

[Jem]

I wish the double exp campaigns lasted longer. With work and timezones it basically equated to Saturday only for me and there's never any FC shouts anymore >_>

[noodles355]

I thought double exp didn't work in abyssea? Or am I just thinking of exp rings?

[Dotsudoku]

You're correct. I think Jem was referring to his inability to get jobs leveled up due to a lack of FC shouts

[Cream Soda]

Yea I was gonna get thf up to 99 to make lv'ing marksmanship easier (it's 76 now) and haven't seen a FC shout so was like fuck it.

[Jem]

Pretty much what Dotsu said. Levelling is tolerable with the double exp and rings. Without them though it sucks and is just a massive timesink, especially since my playtime outside of LS events is already pretty small.

It would probably take me a few weeks to get a fresh 99 unless I skipped events.

[Sofo]

Do you guys think Double-plans are here to stay? I am aware they extended it, and our group is loving it (completing pieces so fast!), I am just unsure what the extension means. It'd be oh-so-nice if it was here to stay. ;_;/