Hopefully my Pink Bean Buddy medal doesn't get deleted with this re-occurring event. But we all know it will, because Nexon doesn't fix bugs or think ahead.
The material-cores were pretty insane if you had enough droprate and it became the main source of people's materials, which is why it was removed. It might be fine if the core is drop-only and extremely low droprate, so you can't buy them in the core shop like before. And the cores would still include lower level herbs and ores. So it'd just be an extra thing for regular Evo-goers.
I personally think it's better to have harvesting be the main source of materials, like it should have been all the time. If you do it daily (and on several characters if you got the time) you should have no problem getting enough materials for whatever crafting you need done. Plus you have the chance to get rose clippings. Filling your fatigue bar should only take about half an hour at most. That's less than the time you would have spent at Evo trying to get the core, and then using it.
It was harder to get materials regularly back then aside from Evo, because ores and herbs only spawned in regular maps and was level-based, but now we have an actual "garden" to pick and choose what we need. Plus they spawn in regular maps again. Plus special flowers and rocks.
If we're talking about making Evo lab popular again, they could add other cores for, say, honor or additional coins. It's still pretty popular for some event drops too.
I do think that the harvesting action should be improved though. It randomly stops a lot, and the whole animation is what takes up most the time. Would have been better if you used regular attack, and it'd "die" in one or two shots.
I still have a coupon, will I receive a permanent android when I open it or was I supposed to get one during this compensation? I guess what I'm asking is, are the coupons broken still or nah?
They didn't really specify that in the notes. So unless you get a reply for this, you should probably just open it and check for yourself. Then submit a ticket if it's not permanent, and hope you get compensated.
The thing is I'm trying to sell the coupon, but I don't wanna rip someone off with a bugged out temp version.