Yesterday traveled 30 systems nothing today up to 25 same jack that up. Null is dead with all the upgrade dramas at least the spawns for the event could make us happy if we could find it. 
They seem to spawn every 30-40min (not very frequently, and this could even be longer). I remember Crimson Harvest last year - it was a lot livelier and a lot more fun.
Come for the Harvest - stay for the suckā¦
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- my Gila sucks in there, they target drones too much!
- other people steal my sites!
- itās too hard, Iāve lost a ship! How dare they tackle me!
- I only find the wrong sites, those I need for the even do not spawn, itās clearly a bug!
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Honestly, Iām fine with everything - just the frequency of site spawns.
The event is fine. If they increase the amount of sites the loot will be worthless within a few days.
Change location. I have more sites than I can do, even in a pretty fast ship. From day one. And the more ppl finish the reward streak, the less competition there will be. In twoo weeks you will drown in sites that nobody wants any more.
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Just traveled a few systems from Rens Trade Hub to complete the Daily Goals, saw about 1/2 dozen Event combat sites, basically equal amounts for both sides of the Eventā¦
Granted I didnāt do any scanning for Event Hacking sites but Iāll bet itās about the sameā¦
So if thereās no sites available in your area, try looking during a different time zoneā¦ And also like @Syzygium said, change location as wellā¦
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Thanks CCP for the great even for Maradeurs. The ships were not really of big use and now every single āevent siteā in high-sec is instafarmed by roaming Maradeurs. So great to enjoy this event as a newbie. Way to go!
Thats not quite true, because at least I do them in T3Cruisers. And I saw lots of Newbs in Praxii trying them too.
However, here is a great advice: Whenever you see a Marauder farming these Event sites, send a Mail to @Aiko_Danuja with the location and the character name. Aiko is pretty newbie friendly and might send a squad to take care of your āproblemā, especially if the guy didnāt buy an Event Farming Permit!
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I have 2 and even once there were THREE Maradeurs fighting for that final BS. Ofc no way to kill it before them. They are roaming around Uemisaisen all the time.
Try a different location and time zoneā¦
Also look in dead-end pipeline systems that are off the beaten track, meaning systems that are far from Trade hubs with low activityā¦ Check Star map for system statsā¦
Where one Marauder doesnāt guarantee success - bring two, threeā¦
Or you simply steal the Overseer loot. The Marauder will be in Bastion so he canāt hold anything that is just burning away. 100MN HAC with Assault Damage Control and you can take whatever you want, burn 50km away and just warp out. There is basically nothing he can do to prevent that, even if he has a scram or point on his Marauder.
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True, but you donāt get credit for the kill and thus canāt advance the event track.
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It would be nice if these events featured:
ā¢ Four (4) tasks instead of (2). Not sure why each task has to be mutually exclusive, ie: why you canāt have both the ākill 10xā and ākill bossā both active at the same time.
ā¢ Barring that, an auto-claim feature.
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did not look at that many systems in empire but I got similar results
Spawning for events is VERY bad and I occasionally find titmon sites when I need crimson ones. The whole split event thing looked like a fun mechanic but made finding sites many times more difficult.
The difficulty of making any progress on events seems to be getting worse. The last event was a grind butā¦ I made progress, I have made next to none on this one.
Some person said if sites spawn too much loot will be worthless, well 90% of the people doing them want to get progress on the skins that are on the progress bar. Once a person reaches that they will be done. And said loot will not be worth much regardless because of all the grindy progress tied to the sites.
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okayā¦ so I log in and find this:
(yes, thats from literally 5 minutes ago)
Then I jump one system and find this:
And then I jump another system and find this:
Leave the populated areas of EVE around the tradehubs and you are swarmed with sites left and right.
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ok well I dont see that in systems where I am at. systems in nullsec with a less then dozen or a handfull people in them.
Do we need more dead systems in a MMO for events to work?
I will try going to the farthest reaches but again, the problem still exists. Crazy idea, normalize the spawns, aim for one each system. Not a odd one every 3 systems I look and a dozen who knows where.
And checking again, I had a character go to the most unpopulated place I could find nearby, ten jumps empire, and saw, one crimson gauntlet site.
And then a few mins later others showed up in system, and the site vanished, almost like people are scouting far and wide for these hard-to-find sites.
Yeaā¦ its very bad.
Stop crying. Be on the move, have a ship that can travel fast and crush the sites quickly and you will have absolutely no problems. I have finished the Event on 2 chars now even while having a job and only being able to play on weekends or some hours in the evening. It wasnāt even hard, there were a lot more sites available than I could farm.
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