I’ve liked this event so far. First night up I guess fellow angels were tracking these down. And empire fw and non affiliated pirates tracking them down too.
Some angel sites not blobbed give nice payout. The mining ops one pays real nice with only say 6 people in it.
yep its crap! not enough awards what is the point???
The only issue I have with the rewards for this event is the Amarr boosters will be wasted.
I understand it is my fault yet I feel it is a waste!
What did you expect? Genuinely curious
(Its not that you cant make cool events its that CCP doesent even try)
I logged in, opened the Agency for the event, checked out the rewards and decided it wasn’t worth the time to do it.
I use to love doing events. They were fun and exciting. CCP has now turned them into nothing more than a grind fest giving little rewards for lot’s of risk.
Definitely no longer fun and exciting…
SKINs and boosters from the agency rewards are applied automatically as well (so you can’t resell them).
Oh, what a development, from bragging about 400M/h to “it’s worthless” in two days … wtf lol.
Lowsec hacking sites are still fun, have to try “mining” this weekend unless I get stuck figuring out what to do in Vanguard. 
For the first 48 hours they had decent returns, but most of the loot is worthless now… (particularly the SKINs). There’s no Mac version of Vanguard, so I’ll just have to watch YouTube videos…
All skins dropping from event sites are worthless, from day one. You appear to be new to the game 
Nope - just returning after a few years away (so the events have changed somewhat).
Ok, don’t think that changed, but too many skins are dropping. The only stuff worth looking at are the overseers, other ISK worth tokens, the boosters and accelerators. Rarely you get faction module drops.
I’m literally (no exaggeration) seeing 1-2 SKIN drops per combat site. You’d have to run a half dozen sites to get one lucky SKIN drop in the past. I’ve gotten about a half dozen faction module drops (most are the really low-end hardeners, though).
I legitimately feel bad for any players who were somehow convinced they could run these in anything but a Marauder and hope to compete with everyone else. These Praxis fits running around just make me shake my head…
It’s not bad, no good.
CCP has done many rewards lately via: events, logging window and store discounts. Just keep in mind that now is Christmas holiday - it’s time for giveaways not takings and gainings (“based on lore”). Therefore, these event sites are more like some sort of easy and funky holiday games. The only problem, in my opinion, is the competition which is just too high due to how they are binded to the storms or locations. As a result it turns into very camped event sites in null and low sec and very high competition for some hi-sec sites via multiboxing and very expensive ships under perfect skills (I noticed how fast somebody is scanning those lvl4 data sites). As a result nobody wants to risk an expensive ship while gaining almost nothing.
About timing. Since long long time ago these events are working next order:
TBH I pretty much gave up on the “new improved” event style well over a year ago. I’m not saying they’re not profitable or worthwhile for people willing to do what it takes to farm them - just that they’re no longer interesting to me. For exactly the reasons you (and others) state: the events are too much grind for (in general) too little benefit, and the sites are rigged towards fairly specific ship/build types.
Like you, I used to look forward to and enjoy the older style events we had from (if memory serves) around the 2012-2016 years. You used to be able to use your fairly regular ship builds to pop into sites and duke it out with NPCs, thieves, trolls and gankers and see who could make it out with the reward crate.
I imagine CCP’s got some new system of evaluating “player engagement metrics” that reassures them their current path is the best one. But I notice that player counts were quite a bit higher back in the days when events and other parts of the game were still focused on fun and excitement, and less focused on daily login metrics.
Agree 100%…
Im just gonna say it. CCP is a bunch of scoundrel. The talent left the company years ago and the remaining people are a bunch of rent seekers
Nonsense. A couple of times the loot drop on day one was unintentionally high (too many faction modules), so it was corrected later. You all look at the price estimation of your grab in hangar instead of the real market prices in Jita with your favorite appraisal tool. The skin prices are fantasy, and the booster prices go down in value over the course of the event, as you would expect. They are even not included in your hangar estimation until a couple days into the event.
I know that because I was doing almost every event in the last years, and I’m paying attention to the chances. There was only one single “stealth nerf” later on in an event with an item, dropping in wh sites, which could make you rich fast (I think it was about ~500M per hacking site, and more with combat). I don’t remember the details but when called out, CCP admitted the change to avoid flooding the market with a new thing (something with mining, because you had to get the stuff in Outer ring).
For everybody reading, doing events is still single-handedly the easiest and often fun way to make a lot of ISK beside market and industry.
Do the Ice Storm Filaments expire? (or will they work next year)
Expire, you get new ones next year. I still have tons of expired ones from last year
cf the blood even with a LOT of dark blood items dropping, and CCP patching this live like 4 hours after the DT.
This. skins, boosters, accelerators should be valuated at zero if you want to make a correct estimation.
What’s more, any soulbound item should also be valuated to 0.
even-specific implants, non-expiring consumable should however be valuated to non-zero.