In my beta inventory, I now see what you're all writing about - mainly, the objective levels for completing some of the reward kits have been dramatically reduced to 100 from the mind-bending levels they were at in the initial release (720, etc).
ALL of my SELECTION KITS in inventory (Levels: 1,2,3,4) NOW show 90/100 fragmented achievement. That's considerably better than weeks to complete. Since I finished GE (but didn't do GE 5), we're seeing only a small dilution for items from winning them in 1 week. Now it's just 2 weeks, vs 6 or 8 the way the new GE was originally.
This is, for the moment, an olive branch - aka a NICELY
POSITIVE step.
I will wait to see the entire breadth and depth of the change package from an official beta communique, which is conspicuously absent at this time.
(forward posted by @Pericles the Lion: https://forum.beta.forgeofempires.com/index.php?threads/guild-expedition-update.16083/post-152533)
Primarily - In regard to that, and
@CrashBoom's point - did any of the fragmented earning amounts change that go to that reduced goal? I've finished GE (and it's over as well so I can't check the offering until tomorrow...)
I'm trying to assess if they lowered the bar, and ALSO lowered the encounter accrual amount to keep the ratio of time the same,
Secondly - so I don't see a FoY, or a FoY shrink kit choice in the LEVEL 4 SELECTION KIT. Are they missing or totally gone? Have they been put back into the GE game as direct wins from an encounter, as before?