it would be nice if we could throw the snowballs at the droids for the event though

Definitely the droids need a fix.

Actually, it's considerably faster than doing heroics with a much larger payout.

Ooh, gives me another reason to obnoxiously throw snowballs at people. Though sadly only on maxed-XP characters, of which I currently only have 2.

@Musco: Any word on the overheated droids? Those no longer drop decorations when you use the bomb from the vendor. Only the cannon that was on the Cartel Market last year works for those. Edited December 13, 2016 by Jerba

Use a bot to farm mobs and spam fleet? No problem. Use cheats in PVP, slap on the wrist and still get your pvp rewards. Use a macro to throw snowballs? BANHAMMER!!!!!

Use a bot to farm mobs and spam fleet? No problem. Use cheats in PVP, slap on the wrist and still get your pvp rewards. Use a macro to throw snowballs? BANHAMMER!!!!!

 

Screw with other players enjoyment of the game? No problem. Screw with the in-game economy? Slap on the wrist and keep your ill gotten gains. Screw with the 'keep 'em paying to grind while buying boosts' system? BAN

We will continue to monitor this activity and if it creeps up to being better than endgame activities, we will likely lower the CXP that you earn from parcels.

 

-eric

 

You really don't need to keep making it harder for solo players to get cxp. You really don't.

I can't throw snowballs at the Life Day droids. Nothing happens when I try, whether they are overheated or not.

I talked to a couple of people in my guild and they're having the same issue.

Is the homer simpson-esque dunking bird to keyboard considered an exploit or any other form of manually hitting a key i.e. people weighting down a key or mouse button?

Hey folks,

 

It has been brought to our attention that when you gain a parcel from throwing a snowball in the Life Day event, you earn Command Experience Points. This is 100% intended as a nice little bonus of CXP for participating in the event. Between the cooldown on snowballs and the % chance to get parcels, this isn't better than simply participating in in-game activities such as Uprisings, Warzones, etc. We will continue to monitor this activity and if it creeps up to being better than endgame activities, we will likely lower the CXP that you earn from parcels.

 

Now, there is some concern about players exploiting this using bots and whatnot so here is a reminder: botting and macroing of any kind is against the Terms of Service. If an account is found to be using either, appropriate action will be taken up to and including account closure.

 

Happy Life Day to all! Get in there and throw some snowballs and get some CXP for yourself.

 

-eric

 

It actually seems faster than Ops

Is the homer simpson-esque dunking bird to keyboard considered an exploit or any other form of manually hitting a key i.e. people weighting down a key or mouse button?

 

Knowing bioware austin they'd find a way to make it so

I can't throw snowballs at the Life Day droids. Nothing happens when I try, whether they are overheated or not.

I talked to a couple of people in my guild and they're having the same issue.

 

Cannot target NPC with the snowballs. The cannon (which they removed from the CM right before the event) still works.

Im not boting, its just me and my friend clicking over and over

You really don't need to keep making it harder for solo players to get cxp. You really don't.

 

So, it is faster than for example flashpoints and maybe operations?

Hey folks,

 

It has been brought to our attention that when you gain a parcel from throwing a snowball in the Life Day event, you earn Command Experience Points. This is 100% intended as a nice little bonus of CXP for participating in the event. Between the cooldown on snowballs and the % chance to get parcels, this isn't better than simply participating in in-game activities such as Uprisings, Warzones, etc. We will continue to monitor this activity and if it creeps up to being better than endgame activities, we will likely lower the CXP that you earn from parcels.

 

Now, there is some concern about players exploiting this using bots and whatnot so here is a reminder: botting and macroing of any kind is against the Terms of Service. If an account is found to be using either, appropriate action will be taken up to and including account closure.

 

Happy Life Day to all! Get in there and throw some snowballs and get some CXP for yourself.

 

-eric

So any idea why we can't throw snowballs at any NPCs?

Time to grind snowballs for 20 CXP vs grinding mobs for 2.

 

Will be a much better payout then most other content for your time for CXP. Plus the added benefit of you cannot lose or waste time on it like running other content and wiping or losing.

 

snowball grind till they nerf it like the other mob grinds for the same CXP reward (which were not exploits btw. bw just didn't like you doing that particular grind)

It actually seems faster than Ops

 

Their goal is to have literally everything faster than ops, so that doesn't surprise me.

It actually seems faster than Ops

 

Someone said that it was faster than Heroics, if it's true, than it's faster than operations.

Hey folks,

 

It has been brought to our attention that when you gain a parcel from throwing a snowball in the Life Day event, you earn Command Experience Points. This is 100% intended as a nice little bonus of CXP for participating in the event. Between the cooldown on snowballs and the % chance to get parcels, this isn't better than simply participating in in-game activities such as Uprisings, Warzones, etc. We will continue to monitor this activity and if it creeps up to being better than endgame activities, we will likely lower the CXP that you earn from parcels.

 

Now, there is some concern about players exploiting this using bots and whatnot so here is a reminder: botting and macroing of any kind is against the Terms of Service. If an account is found to be using either, appropriate action will be taken up to and including account closure.

 

Happy Life Day to all! Get in there and throw some snowballs and get some CXP for yourself.

 

-eric

 

" We will continue to monitor this activity and if it creeps up to being better than endgame activities, we will likely lower the CXP that you earn from parcels"

 

tldr

Everyone needs to complain about the CXP being too low for snowballs

You really don't need to keep making it harder for solo players to get cxp. You really don't.

 

For real.

 

The constant nerfs in hopes of fixing your god awful system is getting real old real fast.

For real.

 

The constant nerfs in hopes of fixing your god awful system is getting real old real fast.

 

It's not about 'fixing' the system for the benefit of players. It's about making the grind as long, tedious, and unrewarding as possible, in order to strongarm people into spending real money to buy the CXP boosters to make it a little easier! This is all about EAWare padding their bottom line, not about what's best for the player base or the game.

You really don't need to keep making it harder for solo players to get cxp. You really don't.

Think about that for a minute. Solo stuff has level sync. Level sync waters down the stats of your gear, making gear mostly meaningless. Solo stuff can be done without a subscription (F2P). A subscription is required for getting Galactic Command and therefore CXP. So...if you don't want to do anything in a group in this game, you have no use for gear or a subscription.

 

It's interesting to me that back when solo play actually had a use for gear (before level sync), the only way to get the gear was by running group stuff (operations, warzones). Now that we have level sync and solo play no longer has any use for gear, we have a way for solo players to get that gear. It's an illogical reversal.

 

Anyway, back on topic....I'm glad to see this and I look forward to blasting you all with snowballs.

Edited December 13, 2016 by teclado

So...if you don't want to do anything in a group in this game, you have no use for gear

What about for Veteran mode Chapters?