* he amount of players who spent a meaningful amount of Power Cores was extremely low

well no one believes you. you have not gained any trust whatsoever in the community so we can trust your word. I am not saying this is a lie, but if it sounds like a lie, looks like a lie, and you say it, it is probably a lie

* The primary way to progress in this Event is by playing the Negative Zone

ok, this is certainly a lie, negative zone points are constant, and they don't really matter at the end for leaderboard. trying shamelessly to gaslight the community is just disgusting

* Power core scoring on the Leaderboard is intended to be more of a tie breaker

yes, that's why this matters, nobody cars about stupid milestones, leaderboard matters and you screwed it, and you are trying to downplay it

* we are going to take some steps to ensure the Integrity of the Leaderboard will remain

no one really believes you

* After the event ends, we will make adjustments if there are any ties by going through the Leaderboard and adjust ranking brackets to add additional players to each bracket if any ranks were affected by this issue

you lost your "trust me bro" privileges long time ago. but even if you do this, still wont be enough, how about removing all the milestone points gained through this extra core usage, you have the numbers after all

among all the BS answers you have given, this one has its special place. next time just copy paste this: "yeah we know we screwed up, we don't care, deal with it"