After posting about the poor drop rates which got as low as 1 CS item dropping from killing a LZ boss in 120 events for the prior GE event and posting about it on the forum, I took a day off grinding but really wanted to finish optimizing my Nomad set and some weapons. I had 8 runs in the old GE event, received 3 CS items in the first 8 events, Bullet King, Strings and Belzer all dropped CS items, but even after that drop rates were as stated at 1 in 33 so basically every second run a CS item, but it was also dropping some exotic items and in the 8 runs I got a Colonel Bliss Holster, Shortbow kneepads and a low spec House.
It was good running with very fair returns and farming for CS items was really good.
Even the cache items were good, as I have a lot of completed sets, you expect repeats, but it was still very reasonable when out of 3 or 4 caches you were getting a new CS item, it was enough progress to justify the grind.
Then cue the new GE event, it is clearly using the same algorithm from the previous GE event early days as in 4 completed runs totalling 60 events, not one Boss has dropped a CS item and from 5 caches, 2 of which had no CS items. I have gotten 2 exotics but they are the nebulous MC Skulls gloves, which are so common they should not be called exotic and a low spec Tenebrae marksman rifle. All CS cache items are repeats and nothing new so far, so hardly a great endorsement to continue the grind.
What happened, why did it change so dramatically, how can it be so inconsistent, the latter returns for the prior GE event were very fair, I was happy and attacked the grind for this GE with real hope and energy to progress. So far the energy has flagged and my optimism has dimmed.
Ubisoft look at the drop rates from the previous last few days of the prior GE event and copy them into this one, it gave drops at stated rates and was very reasonable.