Where is the Crimson Harvest content hiding? (solved)

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If you open a steakhouse and advertise that you are a new steakhouse with great steaks on the menu and as a customer that shows up and to this steakhouse and all there is left on the menu is salad and pickled herring then it is hard to justify advertising as a steakhouse.

So yesterday Oct 12th I went to Jita bought a Tristan to go try the new event Class 1 sites for new players. After traveling through 36 systems well out into Caldari and Gallente system over the course of 1 hours and 20 minutes I found 4! Wait there is more…the first had a punisher that had brought the boss into hull…so nothing there for me but to watch. Second site was another punisher that had finished the site and was hoovering up the rewards. The third site was Kestrel that was collecting the rewards. The 4th finished as I warped in and got to kill 2 ventures because apparently 1500m is not a close enough orbit. This was all in high sec starting in Jita well out into Caldari space which did have more capsuleers in system. I traveled way out into 0.5 Gallente space where many systems had only 2-4 people in system docked up. I had the agency window open to see if any were in adjacent systems and then tried to race there and didn’t get there in time. The takeaway here is that there are not enough of the class 1 sites available. I don’t care that someone sitting in a system has 3 of them available. What I care about is the lack of them. If CCP goes to the trouble of creating the event and portrays this a way to get new players some fun experiences it is not working out that way at least for me. I would hope a simple scan of systems could be done by CCP every fifteen minutes to see how many have been done…replace these randomly and add 50 percent more if the next hour the number done increases then people are doing the event and making progress on the event track YAY. If the number of the completed sites goes down then just replace the number done.

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Hey, you might consider using a different ship.
I hear a lot about super high drone aggro. You will not get warp scrambled in class 1 but they will kill your drones fast.
About the 36 systems … I traveled about 50 jumps away.
I’m at 600 event points right now but I also do the exploration and I switched to class 2.
There seem to be less players doing class 2 but I don’t know that.
I think CCP could increase the spawn count but I’m pretty sure they are not going to do it.
I think if the event gives “just enough” sites is the best way to increase player engagement.
What if a regular beginner can finish the event within a few hours maybe half a evening? He might not come back to eve. He reaches his goal of finishing the event fast and did not “connect” to the game.
Spread the event out over a month, let him fly and search and let him start to build a connection.

Not sure if it works like that but it makes some sense. Not sure if some beginners just get annoyed and stop playing because of that.
I hear from some long term eve players that they don’t do events at all. They are not interested at all.

Hope you can do the event.

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Oh, look, you just discovered that you can’t find sites in populated areas.

Ever tried learning? There’s an entire mechanic behind how sites spawn, and if you fly around randomly, you’re never going to find them.

Or you could continue to blame CCP for your own failures, your choice.

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I had no trouble finishing the reward track this weekend by running class 2 biocybernetic incidents semi-afk within 5 jumps of Jita. Most people were courteous and didn’t contest either so the sites must be abundant enough. Just make sure you move off the pipes and check the opportunities window for sites in adjacent systems.

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Thanks that was so helpful.

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