SIDEARM SHOWDOWN AND COMMANDO CONTINGENCY EVENT

After well accepted million clone challenge event, CCP is ready with another great idea from March 26th, right after UPRISING 1.8 is deployed. Check it out.


Sidearm Showdown
In celebration of the new weapons introduced with Uprising 1.8 update, we are hosting an event to promote sidearm weapons!

When: March 26 – April 9 from downtime to downtime
Objective: During the event period, players must achieve kills using any sidearm (including Nova Knives) while using any type of dropsuit.
Rewards: For each kill with a sidearm player characters will receive 1000 skill points, capped at 750,000.

Additional event info

• All rewards are on a per character basis
• Maximum skill point reward (infantry kills only) capped at 750,000 skill points per character
• This event objective can be played in conjunction with The Commando Contingency, however, the maximum 750,000 skill point cap per character is the combined cap for both events

Commando Contingency
In celebration of the new dropsuits introduced with Uprising 1.8 update, we are hosting an event to promote the Commando dropsuits!

When: March 26 – April 9 from downtime to downtime
Objective 1: During the event period, players must achieve kills while using any type of commando dropsuits.
Rewards: For each kill while using a commando dropsuit a player character will receive 1000 skill points and a prototype AUR dropsuit of the type used.

Additional event info

• All rewards are on a per character basis
• Maximum skill point reward (infantry kills only) capped at 750,000 skill points per character
• Maximum number of AUR prototype Commando dropsuits reward per character is 400 (for all types)
• Any weapon (including sidearms) is eligible
• This event objective can be played in conjunction with Sidearm Showdown, however, the maximum 750,000 skill point cap per character is the combined cap for both events

 

Objective 2: During the event period players will receive ISK rewards for killing Commando dropsuits.
Rewards: Any player character killing a Commando dropsuit during this event will receive an ISK bounty based on the type of commando dropsuit. Bounty is as follows:

• Militia – 2000 ISK
• Standard – 10000 ISK
• Advanced – 25000 ISK
• Prototype – 50000 ISK

 

Additional event info

• All rewards are on a per character basis
• ISK bounty is capped at 10 million
• This event objective can be played in conjunction with Sidearm Showdown

UPRISING 1.8 UPDATE AND SKILL POINTS REFUND

CCP Frame announce on DUST 514 forum some details about UPRISING 1.8 update on 25th March. Here it is:


Dear players,

After lengthy discussions with the CPM and large amounts of community feedback, the decision has been made to refund all skill points currently spent in the Dropsuit Command tree to players’ unallocated SP pools. So, if your preferred racial frame didn’t previously exist, you’ll be able to switch to one of the newly available suit frames without penalty.

Please note that this change will happen automatically as part of the Uprising 1.8 update and is aimed for deployment on the same day. This will result in all Skill Points invested in to the Dropsuit Command skill tree being refunded, along with the ISK from all affected purchased skill books. Additionally, this may result in players having to retrain previous skills within the Dropsuit Command skill tree.

Uprising 1.8 Deployment is currently planned for the 25th of March, and we hope you enjoy the new Dropsuits and other new content. We can’t wait to see you using all these in the battles to come!

CCP Frame

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So if you wonder how many Skill Points you have in Dropsiut command, the easiest way to check it is ingame from Character > Character Sheet > Skill List. Here you can see your skills in the old list way, which was used trough the closed beta. There is summarized skill points for every branch of the skill tree

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THE FINAL COUNT OF MILLION CLONE CHALLENGE

Congrats to everyone involved!

YOU DID IT

cheers to everyone involved

CCP Increase the reward for the special event

Few hours ago CCP announce that because obviously 1 000 000 clone kills shall be made long before the time pass, they give a new goal to the players - 2 000 000 clone kills = 2 000 000 Skill Points. So....what you waiting for? :)

Out team remind you that all you need to do is to participate in 10 fights.