Just to make sure I'm reading this right, we can have a potential total bonus of 1.25m SP?

500k SP for HMG/Forge kills
250k for vehicle kills with a Forge
500k for killing Heavies

Do we get the bonus SP as we get an HMG kill (for example) or do we get it all at the end of the event?

will active sp boosters count against the 750k pool of points?

Waait... So Militia Heavy doesnt count, for getting kills as a Heavy?

Which means Eon BPO doesnt count? :(


If militia doesnt count, then a beginner Heavy player would have to drop a freakin boatload of SP into this to make it ISK effective, since "basic heavy" frames cost a boatload, compared to sentinel.

yeah, I know for the scout event, "militia" ones didnt count... but light frames didnt count either.

In this one, you're letting basic heavy frames count. So how about letting militia count as well?
After all, it's really about promoting use of true Heavy Weapons, isnt it?

quick question, can we grind for both? I ask because I have two proto suits, one heavy and one assault. My question being can I get 750k sp fighting heavies in my assault, and 750k sp being a heavy, and they stack for me? IE, i can potentially cap out at 1.5 mil.

Will you be updating the original announcements (here and elsewhere) to reflect the final set of rules?

Apologies if this has already been answered, but how and when are the ISK/SP from these events rewarded?
For example, I got the suits for the shinobi event but no idea if I got the ISK or how much it was.

So, for this event, is the SP/ISK awarded right away, or will it be given all at once later like the weapons?

What weapons can be used to kill the heavies and still obtain the rewards ?

Can we use RE's, Mass Drivers, Flaylock Pistols, etc etc ??

On the medium suits I mean

Probably, but it's CCP so you never can be sure what curve ball they'll throw :)

I've gone from disliking, to liking, to intensely disliking this event.

At first I thought 'this will be an awful grind'. Then I started using HMG and enjoyed the change of pace. But after a while it became an awful grind after all. I am sick of having to run HMGs every game if I want to taste a reasonable amount of the extra SP. (I don't like tower forging in pubs, and FG is not really going to get you many kills if you're on the ground.)

I know it's bonus SP, in addition to the usual SP payout. But CCP know and every player knows that SP is the main thing, or at least one of the main things, driving the game. People pay actual money for boosters, so of course they're going to go out of their way to get extra SP. The problem is, it is not fun, AT ALL, to run the same weapon (one I wouldn't usually use) every game. And we're only a few days into the event - how bored is everyone who's doing the event going to be in a week and a half?

I play the game most days, but I'm still only getting 500 kills per week, so about 1000 for the duration of the event. That's more than most of the playerbase. But with the 500SP per HMG/FG kill bonus and 750,000SP bonus cap, you need 1,500 kills. So even if I use HMG constantly, I'm not going to hit the cap.

The cap should have been set way lower. I thought 400,000 at first, but even that is too high. I think 200,000 or 300,000 would have been better.

400,000SP is 800 kills, so given I'm getting some kills with grenades, SMGs and OBs even when I carry HMG, even a 400,000SP cap would mean I had to carry HMG every game if I'm going to get all the bonus SP. So that's just as grindy as 750,000SP. But with 200,000 or 300,000, you 'only' need 400 or 600 kills. So a player who plays roughly as much as I do would get a little 'wriggle room', and wouldn't need to run HMG every game.

Please CCP, for future events, set the 'number of kills with specific weapons (HMG/FG in this case) to exhaust bonus SP' much lower. Setting it as high as 750,000, or even 400,000-500,000, just makes the event ubergrindy. At least with the vanilla trebled SP cap you could play how you wanted. I feel like this event turns players off from the game, by forcing them to choose between SP and enjoyment.

Finally, I should say that event stat tracking is also very much needed.

when do we get the goodies? Were we supposed to received them during the event?

Never receive any bonus xp and proto forge gun/hmg from my kills so far...

Does this also mean that vehicles that kill heavies dont qualify ? I would love the thought of all the tankers wasting their time !

There, I fixed that for ya ...

If Patterns from previous events hold true it will take weeks, not days to see our rewards ...

For the Proto Weapons reward, how is that handled? Is it 300 regular variant Proto weapons total? Or 300 HMGs and Forges? Could I get 300 Proto HMGs, and also 300 Proto Burst HMGs? And 300 Proto Forge guns and the another 300 Assault Forge guns?

I re-read the OP and saw the edit, either the Torchflare KK Forge Gun or the Steelmine Boundless HMG. Is it 300 total FG and HMG or 300 FG and 300 HMG?

i used standered HMG MH-82 boundless and six kin burst and only received 3 stealmine boundless HMGs -_-