Well, I don’t know… I’ve enjoyed the event very much. Did it in a T2 passive Caracal
[Caracal, PvE1]
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Missile Guidance Enhancer II
10MN Afterburner II
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Multispectrum Shield Hardener II
EM Shield Amplifier II
Heavy Missile Launcher II
Heavy Missile Launcher II
Heavy Missile Launcher II
Heavy Missile Launcher II
Heavy Missile Launcher II
Medium Core Defense Field Extender II
Medium Core Defense Field Extender II
Medium Core Defense Field Purger II
I’ve lost 2 of them in L3, but completed dozens of them successfully.
Personally, I think it’s a step forward to introduce instanced events (in abyss). Going from system to system only to find that every event complex is occupied was annoying (and time wasting) in previous events. XXI event had that part as well, but at least it spread the players doing the event to those who are looking for complexes and those who are doing the abyss. I had no problem finding unoccupied complexes this time.
I agree with most of your points, it was a novel way to look at the design of events. It wasn’t the difficulty level that was frustrating, rather the rate of progress. That was entirely due to two things: (1) the drop rate of items one needed to progress - and that may be due to “local” differences like null vs hisec and (2) the lack of continuity in the activities because of the scripting (the sequence of the tasks, which were not random at all), sites that don’t allow completion of a simple task but rather demand you return, to be followed by “sell x”, to be followed by “find a desolate site again”, aka go back to start. Even the manufacturing times of the filaments were an element that slowed down progress.
If CCP wanted some feedback, those two points are the ones I would bring up.
I agree 100%, this event had a lot of potential but due to the issues you stated, it was basically a money pit time sink.
Anyway, I ended the event with 275 Agency points making this the second time I haven’t finished an event that I started. The first one was the Dr. Who crossover event which I believe this event was cloned from.
Thats how they get people to run the content, phat lewts the first couple of days to build hype then the lewts get balanced to be the normal amount and people just carry on the grind because they are invested