Abres vs HIP 116213, a tale of two community goals.

One of these goals had an estimated 1000-3000 person hours of effort put into it.
The other goal had an estimated 500-1000 person hours of effort put into it.

What if you threw a party, and nobody turned up?

One of these goals failed to hit tier one and so the devs stepped in and extended it by another week.
One of these goals failed to hit tier one and so the devs said 'suck it up princess' and did nothing.

After extending the time limit, one of these goals went on to hit (and presumably top out at) tier 8.

In one of these goals you basically rocked on up to a bunch of asteroids and zero-risk free money started flowing directly into your coffers.
In the other goal you had to mine and sell osmium (for about 11x LESS than it could be sold elsewhere (sell at CG for 7.5k, or sell to missions board for 86k .... hmmm ... ) - and despite 'artificially high' demand for osmium at Abres its price was the same as pretty much anywhere else in the galaxy (osmium has basically no variation in its price as far as I can tell).

Was the community goal with 1000-3000 person hours the one that got extended? Nope.
Was the community goal with 1000-3000 person hours the one that hit tier eight? Nope.

I'm not asking for anything for me, I only mined about 40 tons of osmium for the goal (I'd recently done a save-wipe and got caught with my metaphorical pants down), but I think FDev owes everyone that mined more osmium than that in the Abres goal two things (and I'm not suggesting that money should be one of those things, nobody mines in this game for money)

(1) an explanation

(2) an apology

Total Contributors: 1043
Final Global Progress: 1,000,174,769 Credits Earned
Final Reward Tier: Tier 8
Final Global Reward: Success

Final Participation Rewards:
Top 5%: 16,000,000 Cr + global awards
Top 15%: 12,000,000 Cr + global awards
Top 40%: 8,000,000 Cr + global awards
Top 70%: 4,000,000 Cr + global awards
Top 100%: 400,000 Cr + global awards
 
The bounty hunting CG required a ton of patience and was probably the weirdest cg to have my friend who is still somewhat new to the game to have as his first CG. At least he has a Vulture now.
 
The bounty hunting community goal was extended due to an error in communicating it, which is why it had failed to hit tier 1. Basically no one new it had started. nothing to do with favouritism. There's your explanation. You'll need to ask someone else for an apology.

And what is 'estimated person hours of effort'? exactly.
Mining is just slower. And dull.
 
Yeah, this wasn't the first BH CG.

I don't know about favoritism or needing an apology or any of that business, but I agree that this isn't a great sign, although I'd say it has less to do with the CG and more to do with the health of mining as a career in general.
 
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