What else are people using the resources for? Requirements aren't historically going down. I'd rather do the fusions and not need em, then save 12+ fusions worth of resources to only do a couple fusions a year.
Also do not have Baron or Georgi. Anything that ignores Nekhret stuff is automatically a "need to fuse" for me.
99% of players evaluate this incorrectly. The aggregate resources required to complete the fusion is not the relevant metric that is most pertinent. It is the incremental that is important.
This is why crying (imo) has increased significantly. The incremental, the resources beyond baseline activity, is WAY higher than before. We could complete fusions and be resource positive for the month in the past. This is obviously counterproductive to Plarium business objectives. The impact is also exponentially higher for those who got comfortable hoarding energy between fusions. I even rationalized doing this, despite the inefficiency in the practice.
Now we have a segment that expects to complete more difficult fusions, with fewer resources while playing the game less. And of course for free :)
I just looked at the event structure, my cursory glance tells me it is crap overlap in addition to the persistent inflation... ouch. And of course a cvc hiatus of sorts 😆.