The Blood Raiders event was the most tolerable of the “mining” events. You should have learned from the winter event that having garbage loot drops behind an awful grind made a large enough portion of the playerbase apathetic about the sites. Now you’re adding another layer of RNG with a time/isk sink into it.
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Okay I read enough of this sad forum, where do we trade these tickets in?
First impression equal to the sadness of this thread.
In my opinion pve events should be equal to or greater then isk profits of normal pve activities. Just have the ships drop faction loot and cerebral boosters, not blue prints or just parts. Maybe a rare drop of a faction ship blue print.
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Few bits of feedback, which you may be aware of:
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Site despawning the second you leave it is a pest. Especially given the roids are only within the combat site, the site should persist at least long enough for you to dock, swap ship, and warp back to bookmark. I have had to have an alt sit in a capsule in the site whilst I do this just to ‘hold’ the site open. An ‘empty space’ timer (ie no player on grid within 5 minutes) should apply before the despawn.
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Bookmarks versus beacons for warp back. Bookmarking the site warps you back to where the beacon was. This is understandable if the site is still in existance, but having to crawl 40km to an MTU, despite warping to the bookmark directly on the MTU, when the site has already despawned on me is just aggravating. If the site is no longer present, warp-to-bookmark should warp to the bookmark, not to the gap that used to have a beacon.
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Reprocessing rates are abysmal. I like the idea of a time-locked material that’s needed for the boosters and certain event-only-dropped BPCs, but the price has been exorbitant because of this even with the more reasonable refining rates of previous event gas/ore. That’s fine, it’s a player-driven market, but requiring 1000 units to reprocess and getting only 2 if you magically get 100% reprocessing (not possible) is punitive to anyone who didn’t hoard from the previous events. Yes, I hoarded, and yes, I’m profiting now, but it’s an unreasonable leap in scarcity, and will only lead to people not using the BPCs this event drops, and thus people being unable to sell the BPCs they loot, which hurts all of us. No one will run an event to get loot they can’t even give away, after all.
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Having yet another ‘type’ of ChromoTri roid just to confuse folk is being awkward for the sake of awkwardness. First it was Deadspace Asteroids, then Harvestable Cloud, and now Fluorite? Yes, it’s nice to introduce players who may not be used to huffing or whatever to these things that are most likely not in their overview because they never had to be before, but it would be nice if the agency mission had a wee note “ensure you have Thingamajig enabled in your overview” so you can actually go through the set up rather than clicking blindly in space hoping to accidentally select a thing so you can find out what the thing that needs to be added is called.
Sorry it’s all negative, I am actually enjoying it as a newer player who literally got into a BC last week, but Day 1 has revealed a few areas that have scope for improvement.
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Honestly, if you want honest feedback, you need to respond to it. People complained for 12 hours straight and still no reply from any kind of staff.
Just out of curiosity… I would like to know from the event team what part of this event is working as intended in their opinion, what is not and what they are about to fix / change.
Why was this event not tested before launching it? Who had the idea for loot boxes? Why is it so unrewarding? And why is nobody from CCP talking with us?
Loot tables need a rebalancing
Loot distribution / drop rates need to be much higher
Prices for the lottery are to high
Too much ore is needed in order to refine it
These are the most commonly stated problems and need to be adressed asap.
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It’s the citadel at the sites, select it and the “loot” option will open the trade window if you are in range.
Yeah blame the warp drive for it’s existence…
Ore refine needs to be fixed. I’d like to see much more ore floating around because sites are so rare. The drops are pretty rare too. It’s not really possible to keep yourself in accelerators even if you get the very rare blueprint.
I’m enjoying the event anyway.
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Trying to come up with good things to say … The lore and items are nice. Someone had a lot of fun writing the log entries 
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@CCP_Falcon, @CCP_Darwin, @CCP_Habakuk, @CCP_Avalon, @CCP_TrashMob:
They have to change at least the reprocess rate of the Amethystic, 1 chromo from 1000 ameth making it almost impossible to produce the cerebrals - we need to reprocess 42.000 ameth for only 1 Basic cerebr. and every site has as max about 1500 pieces of ore, also very unfair for the miners, it takes forever to gather that much + the rest of the materials and a bpc for just a single “Basic” one.
Why do they have to brake all the good things? collecting cerebrals was the main reason of the success of all the past events.
Now i have almost completed the event, in a couple of hours i have already 1000 points and i have no idea for WHAT! - really, not a good feeling.
No drops, no hunting, no competition, nobody bothers to take part, i cant boost my skills, i cant make any profit in the market, flying around from site to site and collecting… fireworks!!! ah yes, metal scraps too!
And i didnt even mentioned how it looks like for those who may want to produce some Advance or Extended cerebrals!!! OMG!!! - this is really sad and as i noticed nobody give a damn about it 
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#Cerebral-Acceleratos matters!
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Best said argument I seen for a while. As added benefit I got the greyed out task icons and no points been added. So yep feels pushing it up hill.
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Not to mention loosing a insanly tanked Tengu to a BS that could kill anything before the fix ,
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Did I really just loose a Stratios to legit enemy fire. I honestly thought I got bugged out. That ■■■■■■■ sucks! What the actual frick is CCP feeding those Angel retards? Fairy dust?
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I have 2 timed missions in my list, one of which has been stuck at 0s for hours. The two other slots have gone blank with no missions showing now.
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I can solo a site and figured out a way to mine it out afterwards…but it is INCREDIBLY tedious. It is a chore with no rewards at all. The amount of tricarboxyls I’ll have to farm to make the blueprints is insane. 1000 for 2? Are you stupid? And 13 million isk? Really? For a random prize that is likely to not be worth the effort and cost to obtain it? Good lord, what were you thinking. I’m done…it’s just not fun.
The worst part, is I was REALLY looking forward to an event, and I am just so disappointed right now.
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This and this kind of events guarantee that eve online is going to lose more and more players.
Havent been played for 2 months cuz I was bored doing the same things.
Just came back for the event cuz events are fun and kinda new things right?
Not anymore.
Thanks…
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13m isk + the tricarb refine rate, is perhaps some kind of subversive lesson about gambling being bad … only the House is winning 
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First the Reproccessing (3h of work down the drain) didnt work now it gives 9 Chromo for a full Skiff 15m3 of Ore. A Basic Cerebral Booster +6 reqs 42 Chromo for 1!!. Are you kidding me.
Paradise Club Loot EA Boxes 13million +3h of “fun” gives a Synth Pil Booster. Thx Pearl Abyss.
What were you guys thinking?! Remove it entirely, instantly or remove the ISK. We dont take that ■■■■! First step towards Eve Casino P2W Gamble Loot Boxing Korean MMO.
The amount of Ore that are in each site can barely fill a Shuttle. That if you can find
one that is bein Cleared because you cant clear it yourself and switch ship even in the
same system, it despawns (AND Yes i mean even bookmarked!!).
The Fast Despawn can only be matched by the incredible slow respawn,
Ships drops sh**t, etc etc.
This is for me a Game Quitting Event. I mainly do PVE. But this is actually making me sick to log in.
Mattias Bergmark
P.S Im talking about Normal Sites in High/Low Sec. Not VIPs.
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The respawn rates on these sites are awful. Previous events i could fly around for a max of 15 mins to find a new site, GG2019 ive been literally flying for hours to only find 1 site.
I’ve noticed that the VIP sites are accumulating in systems that no one will clear because its too dangerous to put a cap/super in there. Is this causing the normal sites to not respawn?
The reprocessing rate of 1000 ore to 2 minerals is really offputting too. I actually like the ticket redeem idea (ive been very lucky with a 4 bil faction mod) but the 13 mil price after the hours of trying to find a site is obnoxious.
Alot of people (myself included) treat these events as a break from the monotony of mining/ratting. I look forward to them as its something different. This event needs a bit of tweaking CCPls.
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Is there a place where we can do 100% efficient reprocess?
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I dont think so. ive reprocessed in a fully rigged Tatara.
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