I will take all the responsibility for any issues cropping up over the event.
I had a strong desire to give the community something fun to do and to send a message that we are not finished with the leaving of important team members.
Also, I didn't appreciate the complexity of issues such as how annoying buy points were and how high level npcs were in Thuringia.
We have resolved most of the issues, and NPCs should now be neutral if you fix the reps manually, which should help the rest of the event run more smoothly.