Bonus XP Weekends

With this week's Bonus XP Weekend fast approaching, I tried to buy 500 swamp lizards for the remaining crimson charms I have in my bank. I was shocked to see that they had tripled in price, from around 1200-1300 gp to over 3.5K each. So, I decided to go hunt them myself as I had done a few months ago. On 6 different worlds, I found bots catching them, so I decided to make a game of it and play "beat the bot", where i raced them to the spot after they collected their nets and set up before them. It did make hunting that little more interesting. My question to everyone is this: Should Jagex withhold announcing bonus weekends until the Wednesday before when they do their usual updates, or do you like having 2-3 weeks notice on it?
I far prefer bonus xp to be done in this fashion, rather than the promissory notes we recently received for the sizzling summer. This way, you still have to do something to earn it other than opening a note, clicking a lamp and selecting the skill you want the xp in. The game is about player involvement and doing tasks to gain your xp, not having it handed to you on a silver platter.

I would love to hear everyone else's feedback on this subject. As I write this, I have just "won" another SOF ticket doing a slayer task. Will I win another lamp for free xp?? Let me know what you think.

Happy Runescaping
Pyrn

i like having a 2 week notice. if they announce it right before, there would be chaos.

i like having a short notice time, besides most people start saving up for the stuff months in advance and it just lets people know to get ready.

I think having a shorter notice would force players to plan way ahead of time. I think this would be a good thing. Too much notice I don't think is good. I do like surprises!

I'd like to see one of them with no notice, like shane has suggested before. You just log on and find out its bonus xp day.

I didn't hardly do any prep work for bonus xp and still managed over 3 million xp total on saturday. Just used the supplies I already had built up in bank. The only bit of "prep work" i did was potting some herbs, and doing some temple trekking to get talon beast charms and torstol's.

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Good to know. It's just frustrating knowing that the botting sites are going to make such a profit from this weekend. Jagex keeps telling us they are getting rid of them, but as soon as the announcement of the bonus weekend was done, all the normal areas were inundated with bots again. With prices almost tripling on some supplies, I hope that the legitimate players made some profit too, not just the gold sites.

Lol, i got scammed on the SKOTM.. spent the majority of my charms right at the beginning, then get the announcement afterward that the bonus weekend was coming. Now winning or losing the competition is no real issue, what sucks is all that extra summoning xp i lost!! Its an expensive skill and time consuming since you have to gather all those charms. Ah, well.. at least i hit my target of level 88.

Hope you all level up quickly.

Pyrn

Well, just think Fish... 2nd place isn't bad and you can get double agility once you finish the extra charms you get. I am just happy to get my summoning to 90. It was an interesting month and just think how happy Shane will be on the Podcast with the last minute run by everyone. He does love the competition being close and leads changing at the end

I'm not at all disappointed with my bonus experience weekend 85-89 summoning, picking up that unicorn finally and i gained 7 agility levels. Plus I passed Earth on the forum highscores. Winning all around!

I'd prefer if they just stopped making bonus xp weekends. If they do keep making them, I don't think you can really prevent the price for buyable supplies to skyrocket.

The humor of the situation is that people will pay three times the price just for twice the XP.