Crimson Harvest 2018 - Event Feedback Thread

I am farming the bosses for Cold Iron skins now. Still works, got 2 yesterday so in that regard it seems the same.

However I found 9th tier Overseers effects in the Splendercook wreck that surprised me greatly … Even found only scrap metal in Brainjuicer wreck.

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The points claim system is still very user-unfriendly and still causes a lot of progress loss, as it requires players to keep a strict tabs on their progression meter, while they’re right in the middle of a fight. It’s just bad and frustrating game design, I have no other words for it.

If CCP wants players to manually claim their point progression, then they should at least allow progression gained after the claim mark to automatically fill up the next progression meter. Oh and please, please, give an audio cue when you can claim your progression.

Found a 10th tier … RNG is RNG. (No idea how high it goes.)

Automatic! lol. Yes! I remember the ‘good old days’ when computers could keep score for you, and payouts were automatic. Sarcastic kudos to CCP for finding a new way to add more “player work/effort” into the game! At some point if this annoying change isn’t backed out, I’ll post it in the “little things” QOL improvement suggestion thread. I hope some people have beat me to it.

Every time I complete a harvest field I get about 228m in ore. (MOre, when I refine and sell.) That bit seems to work just fine.

Just curious: How long it takes to harvest an entire harvest site ( :slight_smile: ) and what ship you use (I assume not a Venture)?

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Good question. I want to say 2.5 hours? In orca with mining drone rigs and flight of augmented drones.

total is 38 000 + ore IIRC

2 orca ~ 1 .1/2 hour with npc & move
1 MD 2 ~41 ore сycle x5 = 205 60 sec 38000/205=~195 min
(skills^ Orca = 4 M Drone Spec 4 (2 rigs T2 mining drones)
1 AD ~ 46 ore сycle x 5 = 230 60 sec 38000/205=~175 min
(skills^ Orca = 4 M Drone Spec 4 (2 rigs T2 mining drones)
Try after clean area refit to drone speed modules.

Anyway BEst profit covetor or hulk with mining boosts.

Better explain why you added this trash to the game? Basic x272 ~ 12 000 points
& what should I, or we, do so that you remove it from the game and increase the drop chance of more useful boosters falling out?

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Congrats on your collection of useless BPC’s! Some items have to drop at a high rate, for players who may only run a few sites during a limited-time Event.

To CCP: Basic accelerators had a place when they dropped as built items, but now that it takes additional effort to build all levels of accelerator, I think the category could be removed from future events.

I wonder if it will be possible to build “expired” accelerators after Nov 27, when they will not be usable. To prevent some new players from wasting their time and materials, it might be “nice” to disable the BPC’s. It would also be nice to enable reprocessing of expired accelerators, so that some materials can be reused in future events.

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It appears my Agency decided to bug out while in the middle of a Gauntlet site…

Now I know I’ve long completed the event, but…

Instead of immediately reloading the Commander’s challenge, the Agency is now telling me I have a 2-hour cooldown timer before it reloads…

The cooldown is by design, after you completed the chain of challenges.

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The need for claiming is bad. Why do I need to open this claim screen? I consider everytime overrunning the requested amount of rat kills a CCP scam. Further the events are boring. Sitting in a event site and waiting… waiting… I stopped playing this event. Waist of precious time. The previous event period as well.

There is zero skill involved in manually claiming your rewards. Nor does it do anything to enhance game play. The only thing it does is adding to player frustration. Which is why this is just bad game design that shouldn’t result in players missing out on their progression.

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@Lord_Rolfski I think you missed the below part:

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The event is awesome.

To better promote the idea of players making their own Accelerators I suggest new missions, three different levels of missions for each race that would vary in difficulty and be similar to the Anomic Burner missions.

After completing each mission you would get LP points to purchase the Tricarboxyl’s with as well as getting some in the mission through drops.

You would also be able to get the BPC’s from drops as well.

I would also think that bundle deals available for purchase using Plex should be available to feed the need.

One bundle could be:

1 Basic ‘Basic’ Radiance Accelerator BPC x 2 runs
70 Tricarboxyls
5 Data Processors
5 Current Amplifiers
5 Positron Cors
5 Electronic Links
5 Synthetic Synapses
5 Microcontrollers

Cost: 5 Plex

Loot has become so ridiculous they might as well cut the rest of the event. It pays better to just shoot a couple of belt rats now. I completed a harvest field, and got a total worth of almost 2.5m, including salvage.
Seriously?
Is this really working as intended?

It’s comments like this that create lazy players like CODE.

Why is it that the High Sec ganker always wants a very high end payout for a low amount of risk and ISK put into their efforts?

Blah Blah Blah to the High Sec Event Ganker who is never running another event again.

I completed one havest field and got around 10M in salvage, 40M in loot. and 170M in ore.

right now ore sells at 1k isk/m³, a hulk can mine 52 m³/s with an orca boost, so 52×3600×1000 = 189M/h once the field is cleared. However you only have 170M of ore in the field, and it takes around 5-10min to clean the field with an orca alt helping.
more realistically it takes 40min with two hulks and an orca (and 2 gilas in the orca) to clean+salvage+ warp next site, for a grand total of 220M (for 40min), which nets around 330M for one hour with three accounts, or 110M/h/account (does not scale).

plus it’s completely safe once you clear the first boss wave : area is gated and need scanner. beacon on arrival decloaks anything (I assume, because it bumps everything).

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That can’t be right. That cooldown was the first I’ve seen this entire event…

Unless it’s supposed to kick in after you’ve remained active for so long.

Which, if that’s the case, it didn’t do that to me when I got all 1,000 points within 72 hours…

I could not run enough sites in a single session to reset the Commander challenge - congrats :wink:

Yes. The RNG became the lure to keep going. Most times you get weak loot, sometimes a level 3 or 4 booster… I got a DB energy neut on the last day. They brought loot down to be more in line with chasing highsec Escalation chains, in hopes of a faction drop.

Your LP idea is interesting … but this is close to CCP directly selling SP. Building the bpc is the only in-game activity required. It cuts out the player market, since the items will be created by CCP.