Lack of Crimson Harvest Sites 🎃

[Smarter_ThanU]

I challenge you to an IQ contest AND an event race.

I guarantee i can kill the boss before you can.

100b juicy enough for you?

[Syzygium]

Sure, send me the 100B and we will meet somewhere.

[Smarter_ThanU]

You might want to brush up on your reading @Syzygium.

No. My trillion isk marauder avoids LS.

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*I understand that you’re afraid to meet my challenge.

[Queotzcatl]

I’ve been wandering for two hours and I only got three, all of them heavily contested.
Of course this HS. I’ve seen some Low sec systems has plenty, that I can confirm.

I warped some 100 systems in searching of sites, I found zero available. Maybe it was after downtime a bad time, idk… this weekend was a lot better…

[Syzygium]

@Queotzcatl

this weekend was a lot better…

the later in the event, the easier, because more and more people are stopping to farm sites when they have finished the event line.

@Queotzcatl

I’ve been wandering for two hours and I only got three, all of them heavily contested.
Of course this HS.

As said, anytime I logged in somewhere in the outskirts and backwater nomandsland systems of Highsec there were plenty of sites around. Never had any problems finding sites as long as I kept a good distance to the trade hubs. Can’t expect this stuff to be uncontested around Jita or Amarr… HighSec Islands work best, thats why I always suggest to not doing these Events in a Marauder or FactionBS, use a HAC or T3 instead to quickly get over these LowSec gaps and enjoy plenty of Sites behind.

[Smarter_ThanU]

@Queotzcatl

I warped some 100 systems in searching of sites, I found zero available.

Same. CCP doesn’t care if we ask for more sites. I guess coding is hard.

@Syzygium

Never had any problems finding sites as long as I kept a good distance to the trade hubs.

Yet, you won’t accept a challenge or name one single, solitary system…

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[Smarter_ThanU]

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[Circumstantial_Evidence]

AFAIK a fixed number of sites are distributed across a constellation - if one system is less used than the others, sites appear to be “pushed” there.

Data sites are “easy” to look for: The Agency / Exploration / Cosmic Signatures - Keep scrolling the list down until you find a dead-end pocket with 15 sigs. (You may arrive just in time, to find that someone else had the same idea.)

In a high-traffic area, sites (of all types) are being run and respawning, such that you could just sit in one place and wait. A system where you can find every pilot in local either docked or doing something else, like mining. You could be the first to notice a new site or signature - no travel required!

[Arthur_Aihaken]

In Caldari space, even if you go “way out of the way” - finding more than 1 or 2 sites is a rare gem (and very competitive). It’s a bit better in Amarr space - but not much. Not sure about Gallente or Minmatar space - maybe those are better.

The spawn rate is definitely less than it has been in the past (maybe this is by design). I finished off the even in Amarr space - but it was a major grind and not what I’d term “fun” (last year’s event was actually quite fun).

Yes, you can occasionally find sites. Yes, you do have to go way out of your way. Yes, you can beat the boss first. But right now Marauders still rule.

[Smarter_ThanU]

@Arthur_Aihaken

Marauders still rule.

I agree with everything you said.

[Felix_Frostpacker]

Why is downtime taking so long today?

@Uriel_the_Flame

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Never mind I am back in. 5 minutes

[Syzygium]

@Smarter_ThanU

Yet, you won’t accept a challenge or name one single, solitary system…

I have nothing to gain from a stupid “challenge” where I - who has already finished the Event twice days ago - are “competing” against someone who is still unable to find sites, but braggs about his multibillion ISK Blingmarauder that could theoretically do a site faster than my T3C (if he could just find any sites to run).

And it’s for sure not my job to do your damn job and look for systems where you can farm. I have proven that it’s possible without that much effort by running both event chains (Tetrimon and Blood Raiders) in about 10 days. Funny thing, I just moved an Alt between Hek and Jita (one of the most popular routes in the game) and during these 19 jumps I already saw 6 Event sites ready to farm. Were there other people in it? Probably, but it’s a damn competitive event, go in there with your oh-so-fast Marauder and be faster than them with the boss, easy peasy.

You can also check the market for the “Brutal Splatter Pattern” which is the final reward in both event chains, literally hundreds of them have been sold, another hundred are in the market and we can’t even see all those who have been used by people themselves or are stored for a later sale. So basically many hundred people, probably a thousand or more have been able to finish the Event so far. That only leads to one logical conclusion: If you have trouble, it’s a you problem.

[Talon_Kardee]

Living in Oasa…with 2 rented systems…harvest data sites are OKish but really not many - BBUT we totally lack the combat sites…since event started I had like 5 combat sites in 2 systems…
What the actual F…?

[Talon_Kardee]

YES…whenever I log in my high sec char to do LP daylies I see event sites all over…NULL has nothing! In my 2 systems in Oasa 5 combat sites since event started…so the math and tell me how i should be able to complete the campaign within 10 days…right now I struggle to get to halve!

[Syzygium]

@Talon_Kardee

…so the math and tell me how i should be able to complete the campaign within 10 days…

Do the totally crazy thing and just leave your cosy home for a few days. You need to go where the sites are, it’s not a complicated concept. Go move around, it is a competitive event. The rewards don’t come to you, you have to chase them and even beat others while doing so.

[Smarter_ThanU]

@Syzygium

someone who is still unable to find sites

I never said that I couldn’t find them.

*Reading is hard.

[DeMichael_Crimson]

@Syzygium

Can’t really remember in which one smaller and faster ships would be used, but I had some years break in between.

That would be the Guristas Pirates Easter Event called ‘The Hunt’… The sites only allow T1, T2 and Faction Frigates / Destroyers to enter…

I think that event was actually pretty cool, especially having to use Directional Scanner to find and destroy NPC Pods for keys to enter the combat sites…

[Smarter_ThanU]

@DeMichael_Crimson

I think that event was actually pretty cool

Agreed, and this event used to be better.

Why doesn’t CCP throw in a better loot reward now and then?

[DeMichael_Crimson]

The Agency Event Point rewards use to be good with a verity of stuff ranging from apparel items to implants… Course for a while now it’s been nothing but skins and boosters. Guess it’s a Dev ‘Favorite’ thing… Anyway I don’t even do the Events anymore because of that… Not to mention CCP has steadily increased the amount of points needed to complete the event each year, basically turning it into a major time sink…

As for the loot drops from the rats and sites, they use to drop some really good items… I think it’s now designed to just entice players to do it more, giving them the false hope they’ll make some big isk…

Now it’s sorta like gambling, you pay your money and take your chances… Just don’t forget the house always wins…

[Smarter_ThanU]

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Even one big BPO or something would get a LOT more people involved.

Treasure hunting brings out the beast in most people.