The game is unplayable in its current state, doing adventures is a painstaking venture in wrong generals, inability to block and constant zone refreshes
Sending a single explorer now takes a minute to actually send (refreshes, instant-returns, etc), at ~100 explorers it would take me well over an hour of frustration and RSI inducing clicks to get anything done.
I had hoped that BB would take the time to fix all those issues first before throwing in an event that only a few % of people will actually be able to play, and a smaller % of that would even bother at all.
I'm fairly sure that every player that's still around would prefer the issues addressed to get a playable game before launching in a series (halloween is usually around the corner here followed by xmas) of events noone will have the patience to play.