During about the time of second event only, I managed to get about 10,000 sigils (and only in the FIRST half of the event). Which, since I can do it, means you guys can do it too. So we don't need longer events. We just need more dedicated grinders.

Also, the apocrea stuff isn't that significantly better then their non-obsidian versions.

My theory is that after about a week and a half of an event, players lose interest. At that point the bulk of people that care have the snow flake eyes or the amazing apocrean antigua, and are about ready to move on with whatever goals they were working on prior to the event coming into their lives.. I'm happy with the shortening of the events, as long as events with new content are more than a week long. Having them be shorter makes it to where a small subset of people miss the event due to prior engagements that they cannot cancel for a video game.

Repeating the events without any new content can build more hype than having the event for a longer period, and can give those that missed past events due to loads of prior engagements a chance to accomplish something while still interesting those that have completed the event.

Well think of the potential positives. What if the event rotation got so short that we had a day to day rotation in the prestige missions of the various time-limited events with exclusive equipment?

Or with a lesser stretch of what could happen, how about shorter events leading to shorter times between events?

I'd recommend we get at least 2 weekend periods in per event unless we're getting 1-week rotations every 2-3 months with a single event. Having one event a month isn't too bad a practice IMO.

I don't mind events being short. It just seems their timing is weird. Spooky event in January is just funny.

But, I'd say that a single level gets around 100-200 sigils right? (elite S6) One of these levels shouldn't take more then 15 minutes. So that's a maximum of 4 hours per item? Well, I guess that's a lot... but it's about the time of 4 vanas. If you don't really have that time avaibable in a week, then I dunno. Also, my estimate of 4 hours is if you get 100... every single time.

Hah I get like 60 per hour because I only get the plateau on the last level, and then all my teammates die.

Dunno what you people are on about - I was able to haul nearly 3k sigils last night. Having people who know how to walk slender and/or farm souls effectively makes a staggering difference. No, chasing souls with a hammer is not effective pls staph. Bring shiver/blitz or vortex/brandish and enjoy singing in the token rain.

That said - yea, a mere week really sucks. I understand wanting to maintain interest in recurring events - but wouldn't it be better to introduce new reward tidbits, rather than throttle how long people have to participate and enjoy the uncommon content? Personally, I was hoping for a new face-tentacle-accessory-thing, or something along those lines - but instead, everyone just gets less time to play around on the plateau. All the sadness.

We have 3 events currently. Tortodrones, kats, and apocrea. Have one a month for 1 week at a time. Occasionally add something new to the event to bring people back.
This makes the events more "reliable" so that players who want a certain item know what month to keep an eye open. You can even skip events in favor of others (winterfest/dark harvest/anniversary), and extend those new events to be 2 weeks at least.

It would help a lot of headache around here, 'specially when people start asking when the next kat event will be.

I made my information based on my personal luck, which happens to include joining every party where I'm the only one to last more than 1 minute on the plateau

one week is not enough time. Plain and simple.

yes Gianor , i totally understand what your saying because almost now every event is being cut down and its really sad because most people might not be here the first week maybe the second but they won't get the chance to because it got taken away from them.I strongly recommend that Sk should at least have a Event duration to !4 days and keep it like that.The next event is probably the March of Tortodrones and what I'm guessing from it might me 7 days too but hopefully not.After that event will be Black Kat event. This is one of my fave events because of the Black Kat's.I haven't gotten a Book and gotten BKC but i devoted my whole time for that event to farm every second of it.if they cut that event down I don't know what to do on SK anymore because that's the only thing Ive been preparing for :(

Well the actual content items that aren't the 10K token aura for the event are stupidly easy to grind for IF you're established as a player and know how to grind efficiently.

The trick to getting the normal items is to learn to distract the harvester and do nothing but that after enforcing yourself as the authority and making sure that everyone knows how to deal with the graves. Most humans can be programmed to break graves and kill whatever pops out, but very few are going to be able to deal with the harvester without being trained to do so.

The trick to getting the aura is to find 3 players that are in the same position as you are, establish roles for yourselves and then grind night and day skipping arenas etc. It really isn't fun and if at all possible I would recommend you to just buy the aura from someone or earn it over the course of like 5 events.

edit: DOes anyone know exactly what time this finishes on 3 Feb???

It should end at 12am PST on the 4th (when the new prestige missions appear)