[Concluded Event] Rheinland Corporations & Lawful Forces | Operation Omega River

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my 2cents;

This event is based on an IRP contract funded by the Rheinland Military. This means only the lawfuls are gonna get the bonuses.

If I had the money to fund piracy or unlawful attacks, I would do so as well, via relevant unlawful characters. But sadly I am not swimming in cash. I'm hoping that stuff like this can encourage the unlawful factions with relevant zoi to put out some bounties or at least log to pirate the influx of traders.

I am estranged, and find this statement coming from an "Event Developer"... contradictory?

One would guess you are the anointed figure who would theorise, propose, design, and implement these type of events for the sake of activity, and not just as a community member but as someone who has the authority to use Serverside Magic to incentivise. I understand the minor scale of it, and thus the rewards should reflect on that, but more importantly, having a scoreboard incentive can overpower the credit one. Furthermore, you can always note that this would not have any consequences on story, moreover, the winning side can earn a temporary bonus for 1/2/3/4 weeks. i.e;

Unlawful win -- increased fencepoint in the Omega-borne freeports or Kreuzberg and Newport.
Lawful win -- increased buypoint for one or two commodities which primarily finds itself crossing the Omega Border Worlds, in simpler terms, a Rheinland - Bretonia route.

The writeup, the financial incentive, the score incentive, having a reward, and the ensuing activity from the winner's reward are all proponents of activity.

Currently, you lack most of these. All in all, I see a missed opportunity.

All your points are valid, but you're missing some context. Currently, flhook bonuses along with a scoreboard are reserved for official events. As the latest official event is still technically ongoing, I do not want to dilute it with another completely unrelated one. But I still want to push this "mini" story forward, because I am planning another structured combat event in the Omegas upon the conclusion of this one.

More generally though, it's an open question whether any faction should be able to benefit from the event plugin "unofficially". After all, anyone can use their credits to fund deliveries to their POB - this is the same but on a larger scale. But the moment these deliveries are funded by the plugin, we need to be careful, hence the official event request requirements and the coordination with other developers.