We forwarded feedback and suggestions regarding the Step up Event in general. I made a point about the population in some servers making it harder to get a party to move forward with the event. Nett's Pyramid PQ is the reason my better half lost interest in this event since I wasn't able to help him with it in an effective way. We needed more people and after a few attempts it wasn't really that fun anymore.
However I haven't given up on helping him, the step up event is active until January 16th. Just a bump in the road I hope!
I really hope that if we do get an event like this in the future it won't require people to do old party quests.
At the moment the team is double checking to make sure none of the rules set could conflict with legit players. However I was told that no legit Kanna players have been able to trigger an autoban intentionally. So It's totally up to you guys if you want to believe what other players have been writing online regarding this topic.