Too bad that as of right now, the Winter event quest line is complete gak...
Quest 5: claim sectors (no alt)
And later on, there's now forced research AND forced province claiming. (and that's just within the initial sequential quest line, meaning the daily quests will undoubtedly force
even MOAR! of this complete BS.
)
I know it's a personal choice to camp, but damn Inno, give us those alternate options that are at least super bloody expensive and/or time intensive!
I would
happily accept event quests like;
- Acquire 2 Sectors OR donate 500 goods of your current age to the guild treasury. (HMA era currently)
- Acquire 'X' Sectors OR complete Lv3 of the Guild Expedition
- Infiltrate 'X' Sectors OR defeat 50-80 enemy units in battle
- Infiltrate 'X' Sectors OR win 'X' battles in row without losing in between
- Scout 1 province OR Research 2 Technologies
- Acquire a province OR finish 10x 24hr productions and donate 750 goods of your current or previous age goods to the guild treasury
- Research a technology OR finish 20x 24hr productions
- etc...
Making the alt options massive still forces the vast majority of people to take the 'easy route' and just plow ahead on the C-map... however, it still leaves a choice if you
really want to avoid map progress/research, but will require a ton of extra work.
(and when I say 'bloody expensive', I mean, "even @just Iron age, it is fair to force a payment of 2k-2.5k+ goods to avoid all potential C-map progress" levels of expensive!
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As the event currently is on beta, it's garbage that's in no way worth wasting C-map progress on.
I'll happily sit this one out, especially being that the Winter event is a complete gak-fest when it comes to trying to win even a single daily prize.