So, my perspective: I’m a mainly-Gallente player who would like to support the Gallente’s long-term campaign goal.
From the start, the only non-PvP activity open for Gallente was a mining one. This requires all players to mine 450.000.000 m3 of ore, 180.000 m3 at a time. I rushed to this on the first day, finally finding two sites in Verge Vendor. Chaotic and fast (for mining), but went as expected. The sites were empty soon.
First problem: the other available sites were in Guristas Insurgency areas, turning an activity meant for high-sec into a low-sec one. Ok fine, that has passed by now.
Second problem: the sites have their own respawn timers. That means that the objective can only ever be completed once enough ores have even been spawned in. Ok fine, we have 112 days.
But the big problem: each character can only participate once per objective! For the mining objective above, this would require 2500 different characters to personally complete the objective (or 5000 half-way). Easy for some empires, but Gallente will probably struggle to even get that many characters involved, even with other empires helping. For non-mining objectives, the numbers will be different, but the hard limit is the same.
And there is no consolation prize for almost making it (only the personal rewards). A 90% completed objective counts for nothing. 29/30 is the same result as 0/30. So why bother trying if it’s basically impossible? Even if I participate in activities I would normally not, unless we can reach that magical threshold of players who care for each objective, it’s as if I hadn’t done anything at all.
The sad part is that this turns “your actions can change the path of war” into “oh no, not you, you already helped so you’re no longer allowed to”. It’s not about passion or the lack of it; I can literally not help the campaign more unless I train up my alts or create new Alpha accounts. Or get out my credit card and buy weekend passes and barge expert systems by the truckload.
Unless I’m holding it wrong? Please tell me I can still keep contributing with my main and that we have a chance of reaching the end.
… a serious NO (compare the invested time, and doing a similar time investment doing metaliminal meteoroid as example). Not even the reprocessed thing yields any good, even the modules cost an absourd amount of time… guess doing mining missions in exordium is much more profitable… (consider price of these new faction mods is severely inflated by novelty)
