Due to circumstances beyond my control, namely this place I am forced to be at otherwise known as a job, I am unable to log in till later on in the evening. However, I am very curious to know exactly how many SP one gets for participating in the event.
Iāve logged in 16 characters so far. Every one of them got āKill a player frigate or larger for 10k SPā. Those odds arenāt too unlikely given the 10/25/50 odds of the previous event, but are unusual.
I assume in that case itās āDestroyer or larger for 25kā and āBC or larger for 50kā but no evidence so far. Even asking in help, at that time other people had only seen the 10k for Frigate option.
Yeah, looks like it might be the same rewards as the PvE ones. In the end I never bothered with the PvE ones, when youāre just training 5s, small amounts of sp donāt matter at all.
Now the question remains to be seen as whether or not a rookie ship counts as a frigate, and alternatively if one can take an actual frigate out into space create a save point, eject, and blow it back up if it counts as a kill.
And yes, 10k is not a lot of SP. But it does add up over time.
I would not be so sure about that. 10k SP are 4 hours of training. Over the course of these events I collected over 1M of SP per char that I used. All for somewhere between 30 seconds to 10 minutes of work. The PVE events of course. With this PVP even I will not do anything with most of these chars as it definitely is not worth the spent ISK, even if you get 50k SP.
Yeah, login everyday spend time doing something you donāt really want to do. Plus itās not like Iām in a hurry to train those level 5s, most of them wonāt make a great deal of difference.
I tried popping one of my alts in his rookie ship and I didnāt get the SPā¦so itās either the fact that it was a corvette, or perhaps because we were in the same corp (?)ā¦couldnāt be bothered to try another ship
I bought a bunch of cheap frigs from a career agent station, and have been blowing them up. With platinum insurance, my cost per frig (not counting the time I took to move them) is around 100k isk. Which means Iām paying about 10 isk per SP, which is pretty good if you ask me.
Time efficiency looks to be pretty good too. The only annoying thing is having to wait for the weapons timer to expire so I can dock back up.
Of course, Iāve only done this for my omega toons so far. I havenāt messed with my alphas. Not sure that I will.
Anyway, some people have suggested that it might be possible to eject, reship, and then kill your old ship to get the SP. Has anyone verified that that works?
A little more checking, so far the only event task is Kill one player, frigate or larger, for 10k.
Only CCP could take a PvP event and make it too boring to bother with. Perhaps they simply donāt really understand how players feel about PvP (or SP). Perhaps they were erring on the side of caution, and didnāt want to unleash a murderous wave of madness across EVE space with anything too interesting.
I like to think that maybe they had enough forethought to start the event off easy and slow, so everybody has time to be aware of it, before they start cranking up the interest level.
Still, Iām reminded of a line I recently quoted from another thread:
āIdk how ccp made fighting people so unenjoyable in pvp gameā
With how exploitable this is it was probably a bad idea to do 25k and 50k sp rewards. But on the other hand 10k sp is not worth the work that comes with trying to find a genuine pvp encounter.
We already knew a pvp event like this wouldnāt work.