Well, I would just like to give a small world perspective. My world is just on the Advanced Scouts research into evo III. I am not big, but this world size does represent a HUGE portion of the starting players that end up walking away. Here is what these events have done for my world.
1. I have been forced to scout past expected for a world my size to cater for relic/kp requirements
2. I have been forced to BUY kp as part of the quest lines which now makes it beyond my ability to purchase
3. My progress along the research tree has been hastened by the forced kp acquisition but my manufacturing can not catch up so I can not complete the researches and develop properly.
4. Any instants won have had to be used to pay for the actual even time frames.
I am just recovering (or trying to) from the last event, and then the Halloween event is launched. Now I am not against events occurring regularly, but there was less than one week between one event and the other, and there was a tournament in the middle of that!
As for the prizes - I am about as small as it gets and able to in any way participate in this event and 3 minute instants (and I now have 45 of them) are an absolute joke even for me. And as for a 1kp prize for gaining 3 enchantments and making 97 beverages??? (fair enough on making 13).
So
I have no money, no supplies, no troups
You have pushed me beyond my ability to progress in any way comfortably
I have buildings I do not want just to cater to your event requirements
You have priced me out of my ability to buy kp for the Halloween event, let alone for anything I may need for myself. Why can it not be "Obtain x kp" give me the option to solve encounters for it at least.
Inno - you have some great ideas that are implemented without enough thought to the full scope of your market. You appear to have nothing to satisfy the high end players and you are killing your new players. There needs to be a more structured requirement count on all quests that match the level of the player city, and a greater higher end prize for those who have stood by your side for the longest.
Dee
Struggling to love the game right now