Thanks for your input!

However on the flip side (which you seem forget) is that if people are leveling new crews especially on AA boats, they don't have to spend as much money, if they are efficient about it.

Your a bias, one-sided crayon eater much like the rest of the population playing this game.

You really need to make a gut check here. So lets imagine you are a manager at SDE. You have a game with an ancient system and broken code to which the orginal developer is gone. So you are limited on not only your knowlege of the system itself and how to fix it, but also limited on the capabilities of what can be done with it anyway since its so old.

The only fix is to make a whole new game, which they are doing, but in the meantime, you've still got to pay your staff. In the middle of this, you've got a cry-baby player base, that makes the game so miserable and flames so much that entire ship classes aren't played. On top of all of that, they demand stupid things such as free olives, free upgrades free free free..... and you know what? They've still got to pay the staff to keep the game going.

SO, is it to bring in money? NO. They realize that there is a lack of CVs, not because of the game, but because of retarded cry-babies, that flame away. So they are kind enough to make an event to give an incentive for those ships. As a bonus, they toss in the 50% conversion rate. You know what? There is no requirement to use it. People can sit back and do nothing if they like. The money is no sure thing.

For me, I'm glad that they brought around the conversion rate because I'm just at the right time to use it. Also, its nice to see some of these other people playing CV, because frankly the food has been great. Its apperent that all the complaints about CV play (or lack there of) is total crap, because these CV noobs are feeding us regulars some nice, tasty dishes. I find this event as a nice compensation for the lag.

I'm certain, with the amount of complaints that they are getting, that they would fix the lag problem if there was a solution readily available to them. You should remember that they are real people on the other end you are bitching at and I doubt that if you were working there you or I, could do any better.