When looking at the lists of quests, I am just happy they heard us about that Complete 2 Provinces quest. Sure, it was easy early on, but after running out of already scouted provinces, that one quest became like a double quest, because those of us with long scout times had to figure out the days and days needed to scout two provinces before we could even complete them. Just with that issue no longer in there, I would be really surprised if a lot of endgame players do not have two fully evolved bears by the end of the event, and one for sure for most players, even with the poorly though out factory requirements.
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@Fairy Dust and Inno, here is some feedback for you on that. Rather than this awkward system that penalizes players who are in certain chapters, instead make it simpler. Instead of current OR previous chapter, change it to current AND previous research level. For example, a player in chapter 12, 13 or 14 has a current research level of chapter 12 for tier 1 factories and their previous research level would be chapter 9, giving them the option to use any factory from level 20-27, instead of the current more restrictive level 24-27 that chapter 13 and 14 players are stuck with. And someone in chapters 9-11 could use level 16-23 from the research in chapter 9 and the chapter 6 research, rather than the chapter 10 and 11 players being restricted to just level 20-23. And down the line for the rest of the chapters.