Hello Pilots.
As community manager of the English GM team as it’s not already been done, I would like to personally apologise to everyone of you affected in this spawn issue.
When we asked the devs to create this into, our intention was to build a unit that would need team play, a unit that was challenging but give a good reward, so we had it created and on our test server we tested it and the cryonite value was around 10K per participant which we thought was a bit low for the effort, this was fed back but we were informed that the unit would be scaled so when more pilots attended the drop would be better.
So we arranged a full test on askone, this was posted on the forum, and some pilots did attend, now when the pilots killed this unit, it did drop more cryonite for them than we experienced on the test server and pilots were reporting values of approximately 25 - 35K* (*with booster) so I presumed that the units scale was this value, this I now know is my first mistake not realising the scaling system was not fully explored and presuming it was.
Now when the gms host a spawn invasion event more pilots attend, as for the chance of blueprints and cryonite drops, and hopefully more fun for you guys than missions, and with the more players the as we since found out the scaling of this unit exponentially increased to values we have never seen before, as gm and cms don’t take part in these events bar spawning, we do not see the cryonite drop, we have no idea how many units of cryonite drop nor their value, and as I had no feedback to the contrary I again wrongly presumed the values were similar to the initial test of 25-35K.
Since then we have had screen grabs of pilots showing their values and they were correctly stating values and gaining millions of cryonite per invasion spawn, when this proof was discovered by a cm it was reported to developers who have since had to take drastic actions in order to try and stabilise the server and the unit in question removed.
I understand that those involved in the invasion took it in good faith that the cryonite collected in the event was all good due to it being spawned by the gm team and are understandably upset at the subsequent reversal, but i have to ask since this issue with the spawn event from January, have any of you once seen cryonite values collected be anywhere close to the values collected recently? Surely that should indicate there was an issue.
So this has been one major issue, and a learning curve for us also, so what I am proposing is for any future spawn event we will post the info on the forum and galaxy news so there will be no random late night invasions, it will be given with some days notice so allowing as many people to attend as possible, higher units that can potentially drop a large cryonite amount (when I say large I mean nowhere near the scale as the offending unit did) will be monitored, if we are informed of units dropping cryonite values that are far exceeding what is considered the norm we will abandon the invasion and ask the developed to investigate as soon as possible so we do not have to take such drastic measures again.
Once again I am sorry to all that were involved in this, and we will be working hard in the background trying to prevent an issue like this happening again
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