Well I guess then for me its worth grinding. Ganbatte!
The initial release on the website mentions about the skins āequipping you for exciting future events where youāll need to pick a side!ā Surely if this is the case something will need to be done to make these more accessible as this event has been largely a complete flop outside of Delve. Iād be interested to see just how many of us have been āequippedā when this has finished.
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The gnosis versions are apparently available to buy (or will be) . Canāt get any more accessible than that; just means you might be limited to just this one ship in the supposed future events?
Plus, for those who do complete the event and choose a side, there will likely be a good secondary market when they all flog the colours not chosen. [Or, for those who donāt want to be involved in PvP, both colours.]
Confirming the rewards are the red and blue shuttle/destroyer skins. Did 2 bounty cycles Tuesday, 2 cycles Wednesday, 7-8 tiers on Thursday, and 2-3 tiers today to hit 300 points.
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I wonāt make it. I canāt force myself to shoot enough NPCās to hit tier 4.
Need 40 points a day x 7 days = 280 (+20) to hit 300.
My highsec character (with some dipping into low) can only reach tier 3 each day, and doesnāt mine.
Players who can or want to do both tracks, have an advantage over āspecialistsā this time.
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Iāll skip this event. Regular PvE and mining are just not my thing.
100,000,000,000,000 (trillion)?
l00t = Loot
So I had slight difference in what I mined and what counter showed when I was mining in Endurance. I thought drones didnāt count. Then I went in a Prospect with 2 Miner IIās and as you can see its 25% off now.
@CCP_Dragon what did I do wrong?
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I noticed the same issue earlier, the actual amount of units mined was more than the total listed in the Agency task window.
Also when mining, I noticed that the game will sometimes say the Prospectās Orehold is full when itās only 99.9 % full. I just move a little bit of the Ore from the Orehold to the Cargohold and mine a bit more so that the Agency counter will log 100k amount.
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4 SoCT SKINs (2 of which are shuttles). Meh. Got 200m ISK for my set. Considering Iāll never fly any of these I think I got the better deal out of itā¦
I dont want events/PVE that have artificial constraints like āyou need to rat 100mill every dayā to get the rewards. That turns the game into a job.
I dont get why there are players defending this ā¦ a few years ago there was an outrage when CCP just mentioned they were thinking about dailies. Players were like āEVE isnt WOW, we dont want dailies!!ā. Now we have dailies and players are defending them and you get replies like āyou dont grind isk every day, you must be an entitled millenialā.
The playerbase has changed quite a bit over years.
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The issue with this event is that the challenges you need to complete both are mutual exclusive, you can either spend time mining or ratting, and both take much longer without dedicated sites. Itās optimal for nullbear bots, sure.
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Well, Iām in high sec and I wonāt do all day grinding for event points. Basically spending 4 hrs or so to complete the first 3 parts of both Agency tasks is more than enough grind time for me.
Anyway, doing that has helped gain 280 points now and thereās still 2 days left to the event.
Thank you for correcting my misunderstanding.
About 90% true ā¦ being around 100% for a ratter, 85% for a miner.
Think I did 60 points from bounties with the balance from mining. All the bounties were from drone kills, including a couple of clone trainers taken out whilst mining in a procurer in 0.4. So, no, not completely exclusive.
@CCP_Dragon I am very surprised about this event. Basically it just pays out for something that Supercarrier ratters and Multiboxing Rorquals are doing with or without it. For people living outside of Nullsec these activities scale very badly and are generally a bad choice in terms of both fun/hour and isk/hour. Whatās the rationale here?
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I find to get what I wanted out of this event I had to mine. I didnāt particularly find it fun. But especially that first mining quest was so easy even on a alpha that you almost had to do it.
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All for null, f*** high? Business as usualā¦
Pretty much what Iāve been saying. I just do part 1 - part 3 for both the mining and the bounty tasks, basically 60 points a day. Iām currently at 280 points and tonight will easily get the last 20 points needed to complete the event with plenty of time to spare.
You probably didnāt do anything wrong. On first glance, I think it looks like a bonus somewhere that is giving additional ore after it already hits your cargo hold. Thatās my best guess based on how that counter listens for the trigger. I believe we have some bug reports of this, and weāll take a look into it.
Iām not sure I can address the rationale here since it is not mine and I donāt feel comfortable defending it. We donāt always agree internally.
Balance-wise however I can defend my decisions. I think the balance was pretty close to +/- 10%. It was tough enough over the course of a week, but could still be completed in a single day.
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