In all honesty, and after talking to people about this on Discord already, as someone who spent a few hours shooting the Dreadnought and the Outcasts, there are a few things I'd like to say:
-The event itself was a nice idea and brought attention to a System that was usually pretty empty
-Both the Republic and the Outcasts ganked and were ganked at times, which isn't really a bad thing, but could be avoided by making those fights more of a "Sign up" event rather than an "everyone can come and shoot" kind of a thing
- The fights themselves were very fun and most of the times they were not as one-sided, it only got a bit problematic when there were suddenly 10 Outcast Bombers swarming Capitals, but that's because we didn't bring enough snubs to any of our sieges or fights.
-Shooting a Core 5 with 50x the Health and a Shield that reduces the damage even further is pretty draining, exhausting and not fun to do at all even if you are in a group and talk to other people. The gameplay outside of the fights was not interactive at all, and probably among the worst experiences I've made so far
- The Helios lost its health at times where we could not defend it, and that honestly just makes it even more boring and gives even less interaction. It's anyone's own choice of time to siege, but assuming that there were multiple Outcast Capital ships that logged when we could not defend due to the Timezones, I have to wonder what the point of an event like this is. Because even if it was promoted activity to the server, I seriously wonder how healthy it was for either side.
From what I understand the CR side of this event does not care about sieging the base anymore, and would rather continue to have amazing, fun and interacting fights with the Outcasts instead of having to shoot a base for hours and hours all while nothing happens, when the Outcasts managed to take down our Carrier to less than 35% HP at times where we couldn't do anything to prevent it.
Last words are for fools who have not yet said enough.
