Naughty naughty, CCP
Why’d you turn off Derelik without notice? You going to make a habit out of this? Should we expect other regions to “turn off”?
Not a chance any extension will be implemented due to that. You have the freedom to move to other areas in search of event sites. Nobody forced you to stay only in Derelik.
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Still, it sucks to live in Derelik…
Just delete Derelik already…
That’s like saying servers stop spawning asteroid belts, combat sites and exploration sites for 3 days, but you have the freedom to play other games. So CCP won’t be compensating with any free time or SP.
It’s not about being forced to stay. It’s that people did not know Derelik was fubar and thought the whole event was fubar. Why would anyone think CCP would single out one region to “turn off” without warning? People are leaving Derelik now if they want to do it because two and two are being put together on the forum, but there are those who gave up on it thinking the site spawn rates were adjusted to simply to be that terrible. So time was wasted scanning for something that did not exist or time was lost for those who gave up. CCP messed up. That is on them.
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Yeah randomly turning off a region of play without informing the playerbase is very toxic on part of CCP, I just can’t imagine their reasoning.
These events are always hit and miss in terms of site availability. It’s rare that CCP makes any changes, but on the (rare) occasion that they do - the events are almost over. I think the only reason we saw (some) regular combat site increases in high-sec was because there was a second phase to this event - which I don’t think many were expecting.
The only times I’ve ever seen an extension to an event are when it was announced at the last minute, players didn’t find out about it until a few days in and were obviously upset over the fact they couldn’t login to retrieve all the rewards (or at least the juicy stuff).
As someone who lives in Derelik, it took me and many others a couple of days to realize that this was a legitimate issue, rather than just a streak of bad luck with finding signatures. During that time, we all struggled to make progress, unable to understand why things weren’t working as expected. To complete my event points, I had to hop to other low-sec and null regions. Frustratingly, I’ve submitted both a bug report (which I expect to go unanswered) and a customer service report, but both have remained unresolved. It’s particularly disheartening going into the weekend without any response or clarification. What adds to the frustration is the dismissive attitude I’ve encountered from some people, who simply say, “Nobody forced you to stay only in Derelik.” That kind of response is not only unhelpful, but also reflects a poor attitude toward the real issues players are facing.
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I feel for you. I’ve made the same point with respect to players who’ve taken up residence in a certain region and due to time constraints can’t spend what little time they have off on a glorified Easter Egg hunt.
This was apparently designed as a 2-part event - but if you didn’t have the foresight to bank extra points you were relegated to running aspects of it all over again.
I’m not dismissive of people who live in Derelik nor of the fact that this was a real issue affecting players who live there. Excluding a whole region from the event is strange and should be acknowledged on CCP’s part whether it was done in error or intentionally.
What I was getting at was that CCP will never give any extension for this, it’s obvious. Especially since there are easy and fast ways to go around the issue – travel to a different region. They have been less accommodating for far more significant problems.
I move through at least 3 different regions of space every time I am on, and most of the time more. So, I understand that it was frustrating that your region experienced exclusion, but it’s hardly something that can’t be got around. Maybe to some that’s dismissive, but I really think a problem that can be solved with a 5-10-minute warping around is just a minor annoyance.