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Oi!
The damage bonus doesn't display on the fitting screen. It still gives the bonus anyway, right?

And so the Five Million Clone Challenge event has come to an end with astonishing results! Our players have decimated the goal reaching the total of 5.000.000+ clones killed in New Eden at 9:41 AM UTC on March 11th.

Read the full report, and find out what's the BPO reward right here.

Welp... Those keys were mostly worthless.

2 officer weapons
3 quafe bpc's
1 prototype module
14 adv crap.

4% bonus. Same fitting requirements as the militia.


On that note, I must admit I was rather happy with the very last box I opened as it contained a Quafe Mass Drive BPO. There is something very gratifying in seeing purple streaks of destruction shooting through the air.

Well, looks like it is per account and not character. My kids will be a little disappointed. C'est le vie.

Yes.

GÇó Active accounts for this event are defined as any character on that account that plays and wins at least 3 matches during the event period.

During the March 4 11:00 UTC - March 11 11:00 UTC period, should the total number of clones destroyed in New Eden reach 5.000.000, every account that won at least three battles during the event period, shall receive the following items on March 12, 11:00 UTC:

This will be my first post and as well as first event I have taken part of in dust.
The following is about my opinions, and feelings about the event. also with possible suggestion for the future events.

1)Regarding the rewards:I will be honest and I guess I had assumed or misinterpret the details of the challenge. I was under the impression that each character would get the rewards (or at least the a copy of a bpo for themselves).
My misinterpretation came from the bottom portion of the challenge, under the " A few notes and conditions:"

in relation to the above portion


To me, I read this that each character under the main account would be understood as a separate account (seeing that the nature of each character under the player's account is separated and that none could trade or communicate between them and in itself a new character in the dust universe) .
-So in ending I was hoping for each character would have been rewarded separately and had the rewards directly seeded into each character's separate inventory.
[personally the way I understood it and with the rewards given as the way I mention above would been a great way to promote creating and playing more character in your main account beside the prime character (which in this phrasing will refer to the only character that will receive passive sp) and testing different skill progress or alternate set ups (due to the nature that each character gains their own separate sp, isk, etc.]
+ possible suggestion for future events: my possible suggestion for future events and rewards is to possibly set up a system to be able to supply the rewards for events into each character directly instead of the main overall account. This way people could, and possible will play each character under the main overall account. This also help avoid any worries about giving multiple rewards to one account to give to each character as they please and the possibility of giving way too much items/power to one character. (I'm unsure if this may prove very difficult but I believe its possible with the awesome things you did including the daily missions [which do run on only a character to character basis since each character has their own daily missions])

2) In regard to the rewards itself including bpo: I feel the rewards are amusing and fun. (please note I guess I'll consider myself still a new play relatively ) but to add a bpo of a module seems like an interesting addition to the market or universe because we already have bpo of fitted loadouts, vehicles, suits, and weapons. What was missing? a bpo of a module [please note here I'm referring to bpos that are not militia since those have been introduce from an earlier patch or update for purchase.]
- the 1000 warbarge: For me I felt that 1,500 would have been the perfect amount. 1,000 is still great. (this is with my knowledge of only 1 level of warbarge. it seems to me each new thing after level 1 cost 2k warbarge component and up and worry that it might take several months to get the next level of warbarge or subsystem since I'm guessing it would probably be 10k and up.)
-regarding the 20x hack keys: personally no complaints there. good amount to get lucky... or not but can fill out someone's inventory with nice things or nice things to sell for isk.

3)regarding the challenge I feel it was a great challenege. it was fun (though I admit sometime frustrating at times). I admit I thank ccp for extending the challenge; I felt that 5 million clones might not be a possible goal under a week but within a week I can say we could, (and we did) do the challenge). (reason for the week is to take into matter of everyday regular life and things could happen to fluctuate the amount of people online throughout the week. so a week could show more of a good number and statistics of who ( eg diversity of people and playtimes)and how many play through the course of a week.

4)Last remarks
Thanks for the event
thanks for the rewards
thanks for the game

and here a toast for the future of dust 514 (players and creators of the game) as we progress, learn, and grow together.

5) PS. also thank you to all who participate in the forum and to those that took the time to read my comment ( I admit for first post I didn't think I would write this much)

You sir have my +1

The event details said every character. I was disappointed and hope it gets corrected
Update: this apparently got "corrected" in the worst way.
Instead of dealing out the rewards that were earned or even coming back and saying "hey sorry that was a typo", they altered the event page to read "every player account that won at least three battles..." And then didn't say anything.
They at least could have come and explained that the original text was a mistake and tell us it was only one per account. Instead ninja-editing and pretending we won't notice is... Well, feels dishonest.

During the March 4 11:00 UTC - March 11 11:00 UTC period, should the total number of clones destroyed in New Eden reach 5.000.000, every player that won at least three battles during the event period, shall receive the following items on March 12, 11:00 UTC:

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- INCOMING TRANSMISSION

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It would seem that you guys need a hand. I have disabled the primary systems and added 48 hours to the counter. I have also extracted a dropsuit module that you might just get your hands on once I am done with modifications. You're welcome.
-Krin

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- END OF TRANSMISSION

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x1 Event-exclusive BPO (non-consumable) item - revealed on 12th of March, 11:00 UTC via Dev blog and in-game
x1000 Warbarge Components
x20 Decryptor Keys

Make sure to follow @DUST514 where we will be tweeting your progress toward achieving this goal!

A few notes and conditions:

Only clones actually destroyed are counted in public contracts, and not deaths. This means that if you kill someone that is revived, and then kill them again, this only counts as one destroyed clone, not two.
Clones killed by friendly fire are not counted towards the total. Shooting your friends in the back is junk data.
Active characters for this event are defined as any character that plays and wins at least 3 matches during the event period.

Thanks to the Wayback Machine here is what was actually posted originally:


Look, CCP, you might have meant per Account, but that is not what you said nor how it could be reasonably interpreted by what you said. I, and others, understood it to be "Active Characters" and "players".

So, ball is in your court. We merely ask you to honor your word as given.

We apologize if we made you feel that way. Next time we will make it very clear whether it is account-wide or per-character rewards that are being distributed in the event.

for my part, I forgive them. They didn't mean to be ambiguous and as hard as they work and as cool as Frame is overall, iI'm not too upset about it. Sure it rewards people that use multiple PSN accounts and it punishes those of us who played by the rules of the event, but that wasn't their intent and at least they did apologize. Some of you may feel differently, in which case the balls in your court

I understood what CCP said. CCP isn't a grocery store.