[Official Event] Sigma Showdown

[Mephistoles]

Anyway, whinging aside, the correct feedback for the event is that first and foremost, the ability to score trade points must be restricted to the involved IDs the same way the pvp bonus is. Otherwise, you can crash the event on a non-event ID, which is what happened on a grand scale, and score points without any chance of you giving any away. This is unbalanced and broken. To put this into a bit of perspective, I have in my DSAce a total of 19 kills on traders flying the trade event that I could not score points by killing. If this is just my count alone, then spread across all participants there are dozens of missed points on people who were scoring points themselves. This also had the effect of destroying the motivation to log in and I am not the only person who at a certain point just lost interest in the event because of it, meaning there are a lot of missed kills. An estimate of 100 unscored pvp points belonging to the lawful team is not unrealistic.

The second thing is that trade points must absolutely be a supplement to pvp scores and not the main method of scoring. In the same way that ores are more profitable than regular cargo because they require player interaction, pvp scoring should be more valuable because it requires confrontation between players, as opposed to being able to shift an infinite supply of npc cargo in a vacuum without the involvement of anyone else. Being able to score by trading is a great mechanic and really helps the event be more alive, but it needs to be less effective. A point per hour of maximum efficiency pure 5k trade should be the absolute minimum, and it could probably even be more than that.

Other than that, the event started off great and expanding the pvp bonus to neighbouring systems, but with a reduced credit reward, was definitely the right thing to do. The 400cr/s profit on the commodities, which is regular contraband level profit and higher than the 250cr/s of standard regular commodities, was perfectly balanced. Demanding more is greed, and if you want to go and earn 650cr/s, go and trade ore.

As for post-event rewards, you are entitled to nothing. No event rewards were planned. I couldn't say if any are forthcoming, but if they are not, well then you just have to get over it. And if it were up to me, if any of these rewards do end up given out, points scored on non-event IDs would be excluded in their entirety and most of you complaining wouldn't get anything anyway.

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