Ok, let’s look at what’s going on with this event. First, as per usual, when it started lots of people were taking out their destroyers, making getting the kill four destroyers one easy enough, and typically taking only one, or two rounds, with rounds starting pretty much instantly when you sign up (tier III PvP, all regions). Now, I can be sitting around waiting for minutes before a round starts, and it’s not uncommon for only one, or none of the people on the other side to be flying their destroyer, so it can take many rounds to get your four kills now.
Now let’s look at what you get for flying your destroyer, and using that ammo, which is the absolute worst one to use against players. You get a chest that contains a random number of live crystals, and some other item, which if you’re real lucky, can be a completed unit of ammo. Having done this four times the first time was my best, and gave me five live crystals, with one completed unit of ammo, although, since then I’ve gotten two, twice, one, once, and none of those three had completed ammo. If my results are the norm (what have you guys been getting?), most of the time you will, so long as you can complete the kills using a destroyer task in one round, get a net benefit of one, or zero additional live crystals. Considering how few destroyers I’m seeing lately, I’d say my results are typical, and people just don’t feel it’s worth doing. With people not wanting to do the kills with a destroyer one, it makes sense how much of a pain getting the four kills of destroyers has become, and this is the weekend yet, come Monday, I expect things to get worse.
This means the whole event so far looks like it has already flopped, and I just don’t really feel like bothering with this aggravation anymore, which seems to be the case for many others as well. Again, why are we using this expensive ammo on players, when it’s the absolute worst one to use on them, and why bother making us fly/kill destroyers, when not everyone has them, and many don’t like them? Why not send us to open space to get a mess of alien kills for at least this stage of the event since it involves anti-alien ammo anyhow? If this part will be representative of what’s to come, this could wind up being the worst event the game has ever had, with the general player reaction to it being “I don’t want to bother.”
Everything is nice and dandy. However I started getting reports that people had auto refill turned off and they were still charged 200GS. It didn’t happen to me personally and I advised those two persons to create a bug report.
Wouldn’t surprise me. A while back there was a stretch where manual repair, and refill didn’t work, you had to activate auto repair, and refill, or log out, and back in to manually do either.