[Atlas]

One of the reasons we have skillboost weekends is to boost playerbase for a short time, that wouldn't happen if there was a command.
As I said, a command to boost skills just isn't going to happen.

"Wouldnt happen with a command" Totally the opposite!
A server I played had power hour, and the shard's player base would jump by a large percentage during power hour...counter to your assumption :/

I do prefer the weekend thing as it normally happens on holidays and we mostly macro only on those days anyways, the only part I liked about the idea would be if only young players got it for there first week or something so it would make it only easy to start your first couple days.
Just a different spin on the idea but I do like the weekend thing.

Great point about them sticking around because of it! Although this seems to be one of those "because it's tradition there's no way in hell we're gonna do it" kind of things for Taran.