# 18th year event. Lost the 250K skilll points for downtime... recoverable?

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**Created:** [May 25, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/18th-year-event-lost-the-250k-skilll-points-for-downtime-recoverable/313466 "2021-05-25T21:04:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/18th-year-event-lost-the-250k-skilll-points-for-downtime-recoverable/313466/7 "2021-05-27T22:18:32Z")

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> [@Queotzcatl](#):
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> Is it possible to ask if that was normal??

Yes, this was normal.

> [@Queotzcatl](#):
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> Shouldn’t it be awarded to everyone despite someone may have started one day late??

No, it was “redeem a single prize once a day, every day”.

Would it be fair for everyone who logged in every day, for someone to come in at the last day and be able to redeem all 10 prizes?

Also, you were given like 13 days to redeem 10 days worth of prizes. You missed more than one.

> [@Queotzcatl](#):
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> once started, the campaigns like this all have a strict deadline or not.

Yes, they all have strict deadlines. As in, “it ends on the 18th of May at downtime”.

We had this discussion a couple years ago. I was quite vocal back then too.

> [@Event Feedback - XVI Anniversary Celebrations!](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/event-feedback-xvi-anniversary-celebrations/156410/197):
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> In previous events, like the one from Christmas, you had to log in for consecutive days to get the rewards. This isnt the first daily login event. And they sent a mail for that one too. So you really have no excuse. Funny, no one was complaining about this back then, and everyone understood how it worked from the get go. Only royally entitled players like you could complain about getting free gifts from CCP and turn it into a violation of the Geneva convention or something. Thing is, we p…

Now that was a fun time to be on the forums.

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