I really don’t get CCP’s plan for these.
You either have to steal other ppl’s payouts or run an account specifically to be in a retrieval frigate to stop ppl stealing your payouts.
TBH, it’s the 25 minute commitment that turns me away from this event.
I do like the site’s style and gameplay.
The warping between rooms, managing the NPCs and timers, it’s quite engaging for a single character, maybe less so for multiboxers who can cover all three rooms at once, but solo it can be tricky and require a decent fit and some skills to pull off; a well calibrated challenge even for a veteran.
However to see 25 minutes attention and work disappear to someone who just showed up and contributed nothing, and in a way that you cannot both counter, and complete the site; is frustrating enough for me to just dock up and walk away from eve for the night.
Even if it was 5 minute work lost, it would feel just as frustrating
They are just farming the warpath things through the event rewards.
Spin up a new character,
basic fit it into something tanky enough to survive,
go out and farm warpath rewards until you reach the end,
get all rewards.
Biomass character,
Spin up new one
Profit.
With 40 event points per 6 elites killed, and you can usually kill 6 elites per site, you only need 25 sites to complete the event track and get all the rewards.