It's finally over! At least for now!
Participated in 4 worlds, none of which finished. Those Guard badges were killers. In one Fellowship we made it to the very last waypoint and couldn't come up with enough Guard badges to finish. They simply take too long to make and there are too many required for such a short event. The Wonders Badges weren't much better and there were too many of the magic badges too. I didn't have any problem with the money bags... in some cities, I could pick up 2 each morning and then another 3 or 4 or more throughout the day. It was just the tediousness of having to remember to have the blasted moneybags icon up at the correct time that was the problem. With this many different types of badges, we need to be able to work on more than just 2 quests at a time, especially if there are going to be so many of each required.
I have no interest in doing any other Fellowship Adventure unless several problems are addressed: The sheer number of Guard, Wonder and magic badges; the amounts of goods required (and every path requiring goods); the amount of relics required (this wasn't as much of a problem in my larger cities and Fellowships but a major drain on the smaller one); the seemingly endless clicking to scroll through to get to the badge you want (this was bad enough during the first FA, now that there are 6 more badges, it's totally unacceptable!).
This one wasn't a totally negative experience, however. Despite the challenges, my smallest Fellowship in Sinya Arda, managed a 29th place finish... we didn't make it all the way but we did much better than on the previous one and actually had a lot of fun doing it. The members who participated have good cause to feel proud of themselves! However... I won't ask them to do this again if the next FA has the same excessive demands for goods, relics, Guard badges and Wonder badges or if the same click intensive user interface is again used.