Simple sites were not so bad. They were doable even with trivial Cruiser or above ships, but slowly. The best vessels (time/reward) to run those sites were:
Vigilant;
Immobility Projectile Loki;
Vindicator.
The improved sites were too hard without a fleet. Soloable mods required like insanely expensive ships for that purpose. By losing just one of those ships due to DC, gank and etc, requires like months of daily running of respective sites to compensate the lost. The problem in EVE, compared with other MMORPGs, is loot distribution being in a party, fleet, raid…
I and many others learned in our first engagement what it would take. Sure it helps that I already own a plethora of ships. There was an event channel that you and anyone else could join to ask what works best. Anyone serious about the event could have purchased the necessary ship and equipment before prices were jacked by opportunists.
What is with the standings loss???
I’ve ended up with a -6.3 standing with bloody drifters.
And this was me trying to only kill the cruisers and ignore the frigates.
The drones kept switching aggro back to the frigates.
Also I remember reading a DEV post about this was a bug and they were looking into it.
Can’t find the DEV reply for the life of me.
The only feedback I’ll add is that the Drifter cruiser beacon sites were glitched for approximately half the event by the fact that wrecks required an extremely long lock time (this was fixed towards the end, but it made looting wrecks impossible without the use of a MTU).
I saw the standing loss after the first site, logged off. This happened with the purity of the throne event if I recall. Its not a fun event when your standings loss could lead to being doomsdayed by space necrophiliacs.
Event feedback ok,
First standing loss to a drifter entity while there is already known drifters that when you go low enough standing too basically destroy your unarmed or unready ships in hisec. Basically it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t hurt you or it does, its basically implied it does, therefore you just slashed a big margin of people who would normally participate.
Second, how complicated you want these events? Obviously you want them complicated enough that a vast margin of people aren’t doing them at all. How does that fit into “its to cause pvp bullsh*t” when theres almost no one to fight over a area. Fighting? sure buddy its called feeding null players online.
As I have done every event this year, and this event was basically sh*t enough to make me stop bothering to play I would say maybe you should relook at a system that did nothing for anyone that didn’t already have it.
Lame event, lame consequences with standing, and it was like you acted like hey we gave them free ships on the 6th they are going to subscribe anyways. Congrats on your fail.
P.S. I don’t know anything about the next event but with 6 events in a row needing a Gila, yea don’t be surprised.
I haven’t used a Gurista ship in any of the events and I outdamaged and won 99% of the sites I did.
Sometimes CCP does screw up. But as we see here with @Sugar_Smacks it is the player.