We don't have elevator costs anymore, so you can farm all the Undead Levels you want. Don't forget there's also missions which can give you access.

They already increased the rate of books being dropped by 4x, hypothetically speaking.

You see, back in the day 1 cat would have 1 drop table. Now everyone has their own individual drop table.

Meaning 4 knights in 1 group have 4 different drop tables.

Meaning 4 different chances to get a book, only problem is your chance alone is still only 1.

I wasn't saying "your chance" of getting a book is 4x.
I'm saying there's up to 4x as much of a chance for it to drop.

And that means More books = More competition. More competition = More undercutting.

Before, you had to kill all the enemies, or else your mist could be wasted, and very few would dare to grind it with CE.

Now you can just run to the elevator, stopping only if a black kat spawns, without the feeling of loosing money.

The problem is that events like this only make players go "solo" rather enjoy the event in group, events should make players to go in party to get rewarded and not going "alone" and get the loot. i enjoy this kind of event because in the previous event i have e-pass so i just can go to the clockworks try to find a black kat and say: "KAT" trought guilds so they can join me which was fun for me. but now isnt the same thing since everyone prefer go solo since they can get their tokens and also they dont have to worry about the elevators.

but now since we cant invite friends to get token... then everyone go solo. one thing that OOO should do for this kind of event its reward players that go in party in search for black kats, i dont mean about "increase the tokens you get" or "the chance to get a book get increased"

what i mean its "more players = more chances to spawn a black kat" in that way players would have more reasons to make a party and go trought the clockworks in search of the mobs or lair of the event. i dont know if right now the rate to find a black kat its 0.5% lets say going in party would raise your chance to find a black kat to 2% (just an example not suggesting this should be the rate) but in a 4 party players so more players more chances to spawn a black kat.

there should be a condition, like if a player die, the rate decrease but will raise if the players revives themselves so in that way we encourage more to work as team to keep us alive, we know alt draggers would abusse this in some way, but there isnt a perfect system that will block any attemp of a alt dragger to "take advantage" of their multi accounts. (maybe OOO can limit how many accounts you can connecter per IP? or how many clients you can open per computer? or even they can limit with "if player have 4 accounts connected in the same ip or computer, it rate count as 1 player).

honestly im getting bored with this event and isnt because i cant get token (actually i have the 4 cat helms 5* stars from the previous event with 113 tokens) i dont feel the same fun like the previous event when i used to go to the clock works in hunt for the black kats, and all its because most of my friends dont want to party up since take "more time" from start and going solo is quicker and they will get their tokens if a black kat spawn.

Shame but thats is the reason why "people go solo" from start rather going in party from start. Events like this must be a reason why a player must make a party.,,,

wish granted

I swear, its not even an increase! I've been grinding for about six hours now, and I have only found 2 Black Kats who dropped next to nothing, except for like two 2* materials that I could've found back when I was an apprentice. With this "increase" (Probably Increased By -900%), it is literally impossible for me to get even the first hat. You need around 200 pages for the Kat Tribe Fetishes and the hats (Per Hat), or The Book of Dark Rituals and the ability to kill Margrel. I have only LESS than 20 pages, with 2 days left of the event. "It will probably take multiple events to get all the Kat hats." Yeah, it'll take about 20 events to even GET the first one. This event is a complete blow-hard and a disappointment with the lack of spawning. This "increase" has also affected a few of my friends, who have failed to get Black Kats in numerous runs.

Also @Batabii, I totally agree. I wasn't even here last year, yet I am aware of this being a returning event. As time goes on, more people should be making accounts and playing Spiral Knights, so obviously, it makes sense to reduce the time they get, and force them to rush until at least 4-1 just to have a chance to find one. (Sarcasm in case the person who reads this is unaware)

Actually increase the spawn rate, or extend the time, or at least give people a chance. I'm not going to keep playing for like 10 years JUST to even get started on an effort to get at least one hat. Once again, 2 updates in a row have greatly disappointed me. Oh and by the way, actually give details on the update, such as stating that the Black Kat spawn rate has been increased by -900%. (Or in other words DECREASED by 900%)