You know no one but yourself is forcing you to do it right?
I'm not being forced.
I'm being bribed.
Over my 2.5 months of playing for fun and not farming I made 1.2bn in total assets, with the time I have for playing (pretty much exclusively sacrificing sleep).
At this rate I'm either looking at a fleet carrier somewhere around summer vacation
next year or two months of wasting my sleep time farming money on boring, dull and repetitive activities.
And here comes FDev offering 4.2bil for 7hrs of effort, almost 600mil/h, on an activity just as boring, dull and repetitive.
In my position, I'd have to be an idiot not to take it.
I just wish that activity was something actually like playing the game. I would even do 7 hours of repetitive trading runs, something I'm sick of after doing that ad nauseam in X3:TC, because it's at least like playing a space sim - flying among stars, alas with frequent 30-second stops at markets.
Boring, dull and repetitive, but at least involves mostly playing the bloody game, not like this "Hold D/RightArrow for 2 hours" nonsense.
Well - I made a mistake in my post, as I was slipping from top 25% to 50%, not the other way round. But I'll leave that one un-edited, for once : )
Well, I didn't find that particularly weird because it actually happened to me once in a previous CG - I got bumped from top25% to top10%.