My feedback on the recent Doctor Who event:
- Great idea, implementation did not really consider the Everest a truly new player has to surmount to participate, let alone succeed in reaching the end-content.
Suggestion: Offer a pack that includes a limited time expert system as part of the signup offer. Not only do you get to inject some appreciation for the outcome of the (longer than market usually cares to bear) training skill investment, you increase the likelihood that they stay and play after the event is over (I mean, conversion was a goal, right?).
- Filaments should have been MUCH easier to acquire given the limited time the event was available.
Suggestion: When for an event, consider making acquisition easier, and completion (i.e., blueprint drop rates), better. When I finally did break down and just buy filaments, the RNG assured I ran out of patience/interest before finishing the filaments. This likely was more skill based (or my lack thereof), so a reference to #1, above here, too.
- Lack of insight on what potential rewards were offered played a large part in my decision to just stop trying and BUY the suit I wanted from the marketplace. I had no idea what I could find, so I just got the things I did know about and let the event go.
Suggestion: Clearly define all potential rewards and give SOME idea of their rarity. For example, HYPOTHETICALLY, if I knew that the event offered say, the suit, a dalek drone BPO, and a TARDIS shuttle, I’d have likely hurt myself trying to run enough to get them all.
- Content was lacking in relevant “Who” related narrative or any connection to the larger story of the ‘Interstellar Convergence’. Why did it happen? How did it happen? Why should I care to help The Doctor? As a new player here FOR Doctor Who content? As an EvE player who may not even know who Doctor Who is?
Suggestion: If you can’t afford to do it yourself, run a contest for EvE players AND new players to ‘write the story’ of the how and why and make the winner THE LORE for the event.
In summary - I got the feeling someone had a licensing opportunity pitched, but didn’t really understand what it would take to make this event what it might have been - a baseline for future cross-over content that both could meet Doctor Who fans interest for new vectors in their favorite show’s lore AND new content to both introduce and entertain EvE players who seem to really want more ‘reasons to exist’ in your universe.
All that said, I LOVE my new suit and in not knowing if/what else rested in those harder filaments, I shall remain content.
Thank you for the event. I look forward to seeing if/how the concept of space-related cross-overs grows.
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(edit to fix missing word annnnd again to clarify a hypothetical example.)