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I feel we don't get as much fun out of the event as you put effort into it.

The current construction leads to endless grinding of Shipyards for various reasons:
- the mission is always available and guarantees points.
- missions for the other event sites are much rarer PLUS you don't get them because after a few missions all other 3 mission slots will be blocked by "I don't want to do this"-missions.
- it's the only event mission I have seen that has loot
- it can be blitzed and thus has the highest points/hour
- since everyone else is also running Shipyards, there is a fair chance that warping into a site will complete it even faster just because someone else already did half the work
- it is among the simplest missions. Some missions require you to change ships. To do something in a frigate, to mine or to scan requires to head back to base. This GREATLY reduces points/hour. I once tried to complete 5 DED sites.... took hours to find them. I don't even want to get started about completing an incursion.

Variety is great. Nudging people to try something new because it pops up in the Scope Network is a great idea.
But here it utterly fails.
If I head out with the goal of finding out whats in the precious boxes, I will always and ultimatively maximize reward points per hour. Period.
We are talking about 30-50 hours to complete the task and get the gold container, so everything inefficient hast be ignored (I cant play 24-7), despite it might have been a new and fun challenge.
So if you want to promote Mining/Drifter kills/DED sites/incursions, the reward points/hour should be HIGHER or at least in the same ballpark as for grinding Shipyards. And that is including reshipping and preparations.
Which they are not atm. Scanning and running 5 DED sites took me like 2 hours and yielded 500 reward points whereas Shipyards easily yield >1000 reward points per hour.

This is why the event consists almost entirely of doings hundreds of Shipyards... which makes it unnecessarily boring and wastes a lot of potential (since you have designed a lot of different sites and tasks).
We just do not get to play the other sites properly.

Not sure whether this is something that can be fixed easily, but one idea would be to change the "permanent" quest every week or so. This could even be related to a storyline of the event

Love the event to bad that 90% of the time i have missions like kill 50/10/5 drifter battleships. The only way to actualy make it is to farm like a maniac the serpentis shipyards sites.

it's a completely pointless change, but hey maybe next event will be better

can't get hard without one, duh

honestly all of those sites should have a small chance of spawning a faction npc, just like asteroid belts do, then there would actually be a reason to do them even without a quest active

The sites and event itself are not less or more fun than the previous ones, it's the usual PvE grind. What made me stop after 10000 points and bronze is the very bad ISK/h relation. The regular rewards are just not worth the time you need to sink into it, and the good loot is so rare, that it's not relevant (did about 90 shipyards and got only one low-grade implant worth 4m, plus 150 processors for 120m). The implant was worth about 120m, and the rest was garbage. Time effort was ~8h over several evenings, which comes out about ~30M ISK/h ... you can get more with highsec mining or basically with any other active profession .

Another point, having the loot free for all makes it more or less a highsec only event. The previous events encouraged lowsec and wormholes because loot stealing in highsec was risky (if you were just for the loot). Also giving points to everyone on grid creates an advantage to crowded areas with lots of people running and triggering sites, again highsec. Sometimes it was three systems in a row, saw shipyard, warped in, got points warped out, next ...

I wouldn't expect much this time. But in future events i hope they will have loot in mind from the start.

I suggest adding a chance that a roaming npc will be a bad ass with a good loot drop. And loot drops for sites could include the reward we are trying to collect. I.e ships drop extra microprocessors.

On a side note, how about adding roaming npc's to d-scan?

This is the point I really wish will be heavily considered for the next event.

The last events got people out and flying both in low-sec, wormholes, and null, by giving those zones some sites that were exclusives to them. This caused people to go out of their way and enter lower security space in the hope of better loot, result -> more kills, more content.

This event? Not so much. The sites are available everywhere, and since it is the points from completion that matter most, high-sec has a clear advantage over other zones.

So yeah, whatever you do next time, please do consider that good ol' risk-reward thing, it giving no advantages to low-sec pretty much killed the event for me.

I'm wondering if the point payouts are fixed relative to the job, or some other factor? I've currently got one job to kill 5 drifters to receive 1000 points, and another to kill 5 drifters in a cruiser for 500 points.

also, I'm wondering if overlapping jobs could apply to both. If I kill 5 drifters in a cruiser, should it also apply to the other kill 5 drifters as well, or is it intentional that they do not apply equally?