In honor of your past glories and in the hopes of many more to come, we're holding a special event! Read it on the portal
For those participating, the system will do a query on your account:
"Amount of Free XP earned from:
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Whatever the number is, you will be given an extra 22% of that number for participating in the New Year Event thing~
With a great deal of the company off work due to Holidays, potentially a lot.
There's a tool that can creat combat missions, though I believe it requires various approval processes and a decent amount of time to enact. This may very well have been a fun New Year's idea that happened recently, so the creator decided a raw data pull/reward situation would be easier to do.
Sure, that sounds like a large waste of time to me. Ultimately, it's just inputing 2 dates and searching participating accounts. It'll return a number for what those accounts earned during that time period.
It would be hard to miss data, as it's just a simple search function.
As it states "you earn", I would say no. Please do not look at conversion with an eye for an extra bonus amount.