Some event stats for those who are interested (from KC Reddit)

Clear Rate:
  • E1: about 90%
  • E2: about 95%
  • E3: about 95%
  • E4: about 90%


Difficulty Choice:
  • E1: Hard most common by far
  • E2: Hard most common by far
  • E3: About 50% on hard. Devs mentioned that for E3, those who chose easy were previously trying medium and those who chose medium previously were trying hard.
  • E4: Hard (55%) > medium > other difficulties


So about 73% of those who started the event finished it, and 40% cleared on Hard. 73% clearing rate sounds around the average for events as far as I know. Not sure about how the Hard clear percentage fairs against previous events.

Personally, I don't think this was a difficult event (albeit we've had easier events), but I've been playing a long time as have others here, and I have a lot of 99+ lvl ships & equipment (and fortunately spare RE for SS(V)). Still, apparently quite a few ended up dropping difficulties on E3 which I find interesting. Also for E3, lackluster hard clear rewards may have contributed to a lower clear rate on Hard as well.

There were a few exciting last minute finishes. One player cleared E4 about 5 minutes before the event ended, on literally last possible sortie for them having zero buckets and double digit fuel remaining . Lastly, waiting on FF to arrive before starting definitely hurt a few players, especially since there was no FF for the tougher sub comp nodes of E3 & E4.