I have not tried this event yet, and likely because of this feedback so far, will not. Same reason I skipped last event as well. Event is too elaborate, too time consuming and the rewards are VERY bad. It’s not even worth to invest time to farm the rewards for personal use since I don’t care about trying to sell them (personally). So CCP, just revert the events the way they used to be: Simple beacons with warp ins and “kill npcs to loot, rinse and repeat” That formula is simple, more engaging, more rewarding and fun overall, since more people will be joining it.
The way the event stands right now it’s another no by me and most of people I know. Instead of making it better, you just keep on ruining it. Please, just revert it the way it was before.
the loot could have been a bait, but instead CCP likes to go full RNGesus. A bit of cheating in a game goes a long way. But not when CCP makes the game, its raw dice roll. And inbalanced spawns around.
Still no Spirit skin for the Proteus? Come on guys, the Glacial skin works, why is this so much more difficult?
(Not to mention that I got the skin last year, but it was replaced by an implant that has questionable value on the market at best and absolutely no value to me.)
So I’ve just started running these sites and it seems I got lucky with regard to the battleship spawn dps. I can tank it without any big issues.
But on to the event itself. It feels uncomfortably much like a lootbox lottery. You have to get the ticket, fine. You need the reprocessed stuff from the ore, I get it. Though it feels a bit off, to need 3.000 m3 of ore for 2 reprocessed units. I get it, it encourages teamwork as a barge can mine the ore fast.
Needing 5 reprocessed units with a ticket to get a gift is still no problem. But with the opening things get gnarly. You have to put in the materials and 13 million isk and you have no influence on what you can get. It can be good and it can be absolutely horrible. This makes it a big isk-sink in general and a lottery. Some will get awesome stuff but the majority will be mediogre at best.
Next off, I really think you need to take a closer look to the requirements in building things form the bpc’s that you can get. I got a bpc for a 4% for the range of web and scram but in order to build it, you also need the 7% range increase to web implant? that seems rather… excessive.
The event is not welcoming, open for players of all ages within the game or rewarding. Also adding PI and mining into the mix is fine, but now it’s just getting completely out of sink and balance.
It feels like events are getting less and less accessible. I mean, 13M to get a random item? I guess if you play to have billions in cash, that’s no big deal, but it’s pretty well enough to make buying the accels off the market cheaper than running the event for them.
Craptastic! worthless rewards. Miningg sucks, lottery to craptastic rewards for much to much money.
Every event going down. How can you CCP guys manage to get it worse every time?
Only 1 event site per constellation? cruised through kor azor when first site despawned for half an hour until - on the 3rd system pass - in kor azor an site spawened? FAIL!
For rewards I need 1 Ticket, 5 Chromothings, 13 million isk WHILE nearby roids only give about 2 Chromothings? have to run at least 2 sites for 1 event reward? FAIL!
Event reward a lootbox? Where i can get something usefull, but obviosuly most of the time only crap? FAIL!
Basic cerebral BCP needs 42 Chromothings for 1 run; while only 2-3 are gatherable in one site? FAIL -> i play for FUN not for a second fulltime job
When a site spawns i have one char to clean the site. But this is done in a combat ship, not a mining ship. if i leave site to switch to a miner then site despawns. FAIL FAIL FAIL
I’m out of this, thanks CCP for sparing me time and ressources .
I’m off for ratting, mining, and doing missions again as before … having FUN while playing a game.
I think the issue here is going to be that, given that what you have to go through to get the BPCs and materials is so onerous, the prices of the accelerators will be ridiculously high and quantities limited. And, honestly, as much as I love the accelerators, there is definitely a ceiling for what they are worth and what people will pay.
So far, this event is mind numbing due to the mining. This is the biggest criticism I have since the first time mining was brought in. I run these sites for the loot and most importantly for the bootsers. The ship skins are a plus when they don’t look like I made them in 30 minutes.
Here is my feedback for the events, keep the mining segments (best better balance would be 2 chromo per 100 units of ore - Cthonic Attar esk ore would be better), but add in drops for completed boosters. For this event, reduce the requirements for the loot pinata to just the tickets (or the ticket + 13,000isk (works for lore as 1 isk is more than the average citizen in New Eden) - not 13mil), and have the rats drop more than typical loot plus some fireworks (worthwhile stuff, like completed boosters and accelerators). In the future, use something like the abyssal cache (input supplement material for lore and chance for more material), don’t use the lootbox to replace loot!
Event BPC’s are great, but they should never replace drops. Rarity is nice, but 1000 crystal for 1 chromo is quite ridiculous. Balance is key, but when “balance” is used as an excuse to be grindy, it becomes less intriguing than older, more polished, content. In addition, understandably, bounties were removed to reduce isk sinks. But, considering the campaign for anti-botting, can we get something back? 200k isk for a boss bounty helps with lackluster loot.
