What was fun about the event? Difficult to answer... due to the short time frame, and apparently the structured manner of the quests... when I discovered the event (on the 23rd), I was only able to do a small portion of the event. For me, the most fun part was learning the story, and participating in the quests related to the event. However, I wasn't really able to do that in this event. Not because I was on vacation or wasn't able to log on. It's just that I didn't know how to participate in the event until the last day. I only learned where to pickup the quest from an article linked on theforce.net. I don't spend much time if any on these forums, and the information on the rest of the website seems to be so lacking in specifics as to rarely be worth looking at (i.e. the video on the rakghoul plague that said avoid tatooine... nothing on how long the plague would last, nothing on what the source of the plague was... nothing on where on Tatooine to go to "help" contain it.). It was only after reading an online guide for the event that I learned what we were supposed to look for to get the quests to participate. Of course, being that I only found that information the last day, my participation was limited to the last evening of the event. The way the quests were structured, that made it impossible for me to actually complete the quests related to the event. I know that there are a lot of vocal players that liked the discovery aspect. However, there have also been quite a few that have spoken up on these forums, and others in my guild that have voiced problems with the lack of guidance as to where to go. Watching the video on the fleet... or the video at Anchorhead should have given the character a quest to find the crashed ship. At least then we would have known what to look for. A giant circle on the Dune Sea tied to the quest could have narrowed the search while still giving those that like to explore something to explore. Plus, there was that entire scavenger hunt portion of the event that wasn't necessary to pick up any of the other quests that explorers could still have done. I think future events should also consider that most of this game sends players for long periods of time to places other than the fleet. So, information should be made more available in-game at the faction bases on the various planets... maybe a news video screen in the cantinas to give updates on what's going on in the rest of the galaxy. If the idea is to do more events like the plague that slowly spreads through the game... then it should last long enough for players that are infected after several days into the event still can fully participate. I don't remember when I was first infected in a pvp game... but it was then another day or two before I exploded, revealing the dna and the hint about Tatooine. Unfortunately, nothing on Tatooine guided me any further, so I logged out for the weekend. As for future events... I would enjoy seeing events that relate to existing SW Canon. I thought that the design of the planets included a lot of interesting ties to things that appear later in the novels and comics.

I certainly agree with the first three suggestions. I have no comment on the 4th.

Maybe I did miss the point.... maybe I should have spent twenty hours scouring Tatooine for more on the plague... but, honestly, would it have been that hard for them to have put a clue somewhere to at least point me in the right direction? I got the plague... figured out from the dna that I needed to go to Tatooine... got there, and other than a news reel that told me nothing, there was no indication of where to go next. I expected to see something in Anchorhead to point me the rest of the way... and found nothing. That was all I'm trying to say... with a game full of quests and markers on the maps to show you where to go... I expected that something like this would have a similar guidepost. It had none. I'm not asking for hand holding... I'm asking for enough information to know where to go to start the main quest chain. That's all. ... and if there's more to do at level 50 than dailies and pvp (without a group), I'd love to hear it.

I came by the website... but I honestly didn't see anything that said "Go to this spot on Tatooine to participate in the event." The link on the main page regarding the event goes to a video which doesn't tell you anything other than that there is a rakghoul plague. Nothing on where to go. Nothing on how long the event will last. Nothing. I got emails that Corso was getting bored when I took a couple weeks off to move. I got emails telling me I'd get a free tauntaun for having an active account... but no email to say "hey, we have this event going on, and if you want to participate you should play between (start date) and (end date) and go to this place to pick up the initial quest." Why not? Would an email in game or out of game been that hard to send out?

So, I'm going to start by saying this is my first MMO. Ever. So, any responses of "you should know how to find the event because this is how it was in WoW" are next to meaningless. This game should stand on its own and not rely upon players knowing how to play an MMO. I've been playing every other day or so since the beginning... tend not to go back to the fleet as there doesn't seem to be a reason to. The level 50 daily quests aren't on the fleet... they are on Corellia, Illum and Belsavis. Right now, I've done Correllia a few times, so that's where my character sits. My alts are mostly under level 10... with the second highest at level 18 - also not on the fleet as there's nothing on the fleet for him either. Anyway, middle of last week, my character got this weird disease from a pvp game... figured it was some strange darkside power I hadn't seen before... shortly thereafter, I logged out. A couple days later, I logged on and exploded in the middle of a daily on Correllia. Got some dna sample that said "Sell on Tatooine." Huh... that's interesting. So, I go to Tatooine... I'm wandering Anchorhead looking for vendors... no one seems to have anything for my dna. I don't see any signs, there's no messages pointing to anyplace on tatooine to go in particular. There's a news broadcast, but it doesn't say where to go, just avoid Tatooine. Huh... big desert out there, and no clue where to go. I expected to see someone with a quest sign over their heads to tell me where to go... no such luck, so I logged out. Then, today, I'm reading theforce.net's weekly SWTOR update (was busy this weekend, so I read it today)... there's a link to a guide regarding the event. Hey, there's an event?? Who knew? So, I go to the guide... turns out I'm supposed to go out to the Dune Sea and find a crashed ship. Sure would have been nice if I had been given a quest or something at the start of the event telling me where to go, rather than waiting for a fan site to tell me about a newsite that figured it out. Anyway, the event guide goes on to say that the event ends tonight. Neat... the day I learn where to go to even participate in the event is the LAST DAY OF THE EVENT. I hope that for future events, there could be something in-game to tell players how to participate in the event. Maybe a quest that you can get from listening to the broadcast? Maybe a quest you can get from the ship's comm. station? Maybe an in-game letter telling you where to go to pick up the quest? There would seem to be a lot of options to help players learn about the event other than waiting to see if they get the plague, bother to read the fine print on the blood sample, and then care to devote however much time it takes to re-explore the entire planet of Tatooine looking for a vendor to sell the stuff to. Of course, it'd be nice if this event could be continued so I might actually be able to play out the rest of it (as I understand it, you can only play so much of it in a day... since my day 1 was the last day, I'll never be seeing days 2 and beyond).