Thank you for answer. Sadly you completely avoided Drifter question.

Maybe you could give some practical advices about Drifter killing, especially for EVE newbros?
How one could kill Drifter solo, let's say in T1 cruiser/BC (something PVE designer would expect new player will use in this event)? Or it was designed specifically as suicide bait for unexperienced players?

Because without PHAT L00T, it's obviously not worth his time running.

I agree, we should have provided an option to cancel challenges you do not wish to complete. The challenge allocation is entirely random, although I can understand how it would feel very frustrating to end up in a position where you have 3 challenges you do not wish to complete and your only option is to do them anyway or wait out the timer. Unfortunately, for this event, there will be no quick fix for this. However, I am currently working on a redesign and this is one of the big issues I will be addressing for the next event.

Um... standard NPC loot, NO chance for Serpentis or Angel faction modules? If so, this sounds suspiciously underwhelming, and not the treasure hunt I was hoping for. I don't expect faction modules to drop every time, but we need to have a chance to see an Angel / Serpentis faction commander NPC, that type of loot chance, to help drive interest on a per-site basis.

Time effort was ~8h over several evenings, which comes out about ~30M ISK/h ... you can get more with highsec mining or basically with any other active profession .

Another point, having the loot free for all makes it more or less a highsec only event. The previous events encouraged lowsec and wormholes because loot stealing in highsec was risky (if you were just for the loot). Also giving points to everyone on grid creates an advantage to crowded areas with lots of people running and triggering sites, again highsec. Sometimes it was three systems in a row, saw shipyard, warped in, got points warped out, next ...

I agree on the expiry, ideally we would have a way to remove a certain number of challenges per day that you did not want to participate in and the others would remain. This time around, we decided to have the 3 day expiry so no one would be left in a state where they had only challenges they didn't wish to complete or had tried and were unable to do. You're right, we definitely need to reconsider the multiple sites per reward.

Thank you for your feedback, it's much appreciated.

How about a button:
"pay X reward points to reroll this mission"?
(meaningful choices and so on...)

Also interesting would be if the agents start paying more if a lot of players declines a certain mission (indicates it might be underpaid).

it's a completely pointless change, but hey maybe next event will be better

why do you NEED to have a faction commander?

I got two of these and thought, not too bad, Seekers are listed as a a type sleeper, at least when you right click on them and look at "remove from overview". So I went and killed one, and got no credit.

What? I killed a sleeper, and got no credit?

CCP Affinity, you can make the sleeper challenges much more acceptable if all sleeper ship types were counted.

Thank you for answer. Sadly you completely avoided Drifter question.

Maybe you could give some practical advices about Drifter killing, especially for EVE newbros?
How one could kill Drifter solo, let's say in T1 cruiser/BC (something PVE designer would expect new player will use in this event)? Or it was designed specifically as suicide bait for unexperienced players?

I feel we don't get as much fun out of the event as you put effort into it.

The current construction leads to endless grinding of Shipyards for various reasons:
- the mission is always available and guarantees points.
- missions for the other event sites are much rarer PLUS you don't get them because after a few missions all other 3 mission slots will be blocked by "I don't want to do this"-missions.
- it's the only event mission I have seen that has loot
- it can be blitzed and thus has the highest points/hour
- since everyone else is also running Shipyards, there is a fair chance that warping into a site will complete it even faster just because someone else already did half the work
- it is among the simplest missions. Some missions require you to change ships. To do something in a frigate, to mine or to scan requires to head back to base. This GREATLY reduces points/hour. I once tried to complete 5 DED sites.... took hours to find them. I don't even want to get started about completing an incursion.

Variety is great. Nudging people to try something new because it pops up in the Scope Network is a great idea.
But here it utterly fails.
If I head out with the goal of finding out whats in the precious boxes, I will always and ultimatively maximize reward points per hour. Period.
We are talking about 30-50 hours to complete the task and get the gold container, so everything inefficient hast be ignored (I cant play 24-7), despite it might have been a new and fun challenge.
So if you want to promote Mining/Drifter kills/DED sites/incursions, the reward points/hour should be HIGHER or at least in the same ballpark as for grinding Shipyards. And that is including reshipping and preparations.
Which they are not atm. Scanning and running 5 DED sites took me like 2 hours and yielded 500 reward points whereas Shipyards easily yield >1000 reward points per hour.

This is why the event consists almost entirely of doings hundreds of Shipyards... which makes it unnecessarily boring and wastes a lot of potential (since you have designed a lot of different sites and tasks).
We just do not get to play the other sites properly.

Not sure whether this is something that can be fixed easily, but one idea would be to change the "permanent" quest every week or so. This could even be related to a storyline of the event

I will look into adding this :)

Coming on Tuesday!

[quote=Vincent Athena][quote=CCP Affinity]
This is a defect, it would be great if you could file a bug report with the specifics :) For this kind of thing that seems very strange - always file a bug report as we probably don't know about it!