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i'm going to assume by this question you did not read the blog... so read the blog. Rewards are TBA. read the blog

I liked the very first event most, because it was low in-game skill demand but tricky to get a good quantity of sites (wormholes), the loot was a high-demand consumable not traded in the market, the sites a conflict driver and the value allowed for north of 250m ISK/h purely market neutral profit if you knew how. For me this is the gold standard of events together with being a rare thing.

I like the UI improvements and looking forward to the surprise . But I'm concerned about making this a permanent or exchangeable thing taking away the unique event character, and as an easy access event for everybody having to make the loot mediocre.

There was the question about taking sides above ... this is an excellent idea, let us choose a faction when entering a side with the rules of faction warfare while in the site for maximum reward.

So I'm a little confused how this differs from previous events, specifically are the missions/tasks going to be scannable cosmic sigs anyone can warp to, or do we accept the mission and just risk being probed out while doing it or attacked on route?

Ta

CCP Affinity said - by hunting down the capsuleers in the Serpentis sites ;)

So you can gain rewards (or at least points toward such) for killing people inside these event sites?
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So I know the example pic at the log in screen is just that, an example but to satisfy my curiosity - It shows you have earned 6,400 reward points and need 15,000 for the next reward. The next part of the event is in 3 parts and is worth 700 reward points - Presuming these are designed so everyone has an equal opportunity to complete them and they don't just get impossible for some by getting increasingly harder to complete (for more reward points).
You will need to complete approximately 12 challenges for the next reward at 15,000 reward points?


NB; I have many more questions (the blog is somewhat vague) but one thing at a time.

So the sites work as sort of communal quest as seen in other mmo's.
EvE is a unique mmo, and pretty much will remain a unique mmo.
it's what draws us in to play it.
But it doesn't mean it should me immune to osmosis, if something works well in other mmo's then whats the real harm in incorporating it into EvE, perhaps bitter vets should look not look at it as a dilution of EvE but as a new opportunity to vary there game play and inject new interest. Not many mmo's have survived as long as EvE and I'm sure many would agree even the ones that have are pretty pointless your actions rarely have consequence, but in EvE our actions however small we perceive them to be may have huge knock on effects which can shape the political and economic landscape of eve.

I'm sure this will be fun stuff. But to be honest I have no clue what this is trying to tell me. I think my role playing skills need more training. Off to look for some more skill injectors.

I'm not sure "communal" is the right word in context. Communal indicates anyone from within the community is able to just enter a site and get rewarded for it when the site completes - This is not a good thing - Rewards should be earned not just handed to anyone who can use scan probes and warp to a site.
Which is why I asked CCP Affinity to clarify her statement.

Also, yes Eve has survived a long time due to it not being like other MMO's - It is quickly becoming like many other MMO's, so is the time when it, like many before it, become just mediocre games where your achievements mean little and the knock on effects will be the same - Why bother, everything stays the same no matter what we do - Eve's uniqueness is being slowly eroded away to where, pretty soon (a few years, tops) it will be just another MMO that you need to do X to get Y to complete your set.
And your credit card will always need to be handy for the next expansion - Because I want what he has and it is available as a "buy it now" option in the cash store.

There is one thing that stands out that has kept me playing Eve - I don't need to run dungeons more than the next guy to get the best XXX so I can win. I can win in a 500K frigate as easily as I can lose in a 2 Bil T3.

Eventually this sort of thing leads to, gold ammo type scenarios, no matter how much CCP say they won't do it, believing them is difficult when $ are involved. They have shown already they aren't prepared to stand by previous statements regarding skill point acquisition by introducing "dailies". What's next?
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As for any rewards from the Shadow event. It is likely to end like most events involving rewards do in Eve - The market soon gets flooded with the reward items driving their price down so much the events are really not worth doing.
I have a collection of over 100 skins from recent events - They aren't worth selling, the transaction and brokers fees are more than they are worth, simply because the market got flooded; These "rewards" aren't "special" when everyone has multiple of them. Skins I have that were selling for 1.5 to 2 mil are now worth 4,000. Thukker component assembly arrays (I have 84 BPC's), current value, 50% less than it costs to build them.

So yes, these events will help shape the future economic face of Eve - Via the price of each reward being lowered each time someone completes one.

I really like that this includes more than just combat sites. Good job.

the final reward - BPO fraction titan from serpentis

Finally we will have something to do in this 'sandbox'
CANNOT WAIT!