idk how were you scammed. after soviet engineers+gold orders next “major” reward was 15 appearance change orders. after that you have 2 extra stages for those who missed some stage before.
rewards for 20k were listed here
so it was your inattentiveness that was the reason for your spending gold for basically worthless rewards.
btw i think that they have shit pricing for those events, but that is beside the point.
and were you promised gold orders or squad for those 83 gold? were you forced to spend gold for finishing 20k? arent rewards for finishing 20k xp available in event window?
but you didnt pay more than you received. info about rewards was available in the same window where you bought them. you just didnt read and that is your fault.
it is all about perceived value of something. is 83 gold worth 500 silver? no, but nobody is forcing you to buy that stage for gold. real reward is assault engineers and gold orders and if you missed multiple stages you need to make calculations how much they are worth to you and if you are willing to spend money DF asks for them.
You played as much as you could with your time available. That is totally fine. We all have other business to pursue.
So you bought the rest of your stage to fill it up.
To be clear:
You have chosen the option to complete the stage with gold and are now triggered that you got only 500 silver in the random chest as a secondary reward?!
With other words: Are you expecting a better treatment than those who play the 20k entirely ?
Man I can tell you that the shitstorm over the developers would be far bigger than your suggestion or topic itself.
Me.
During the event I had private business to attempt and needed to buy entire stages for 600 gold.
Did it annoy me? Yes
Did I receive 500 silver? Yes
Did that annoy me? No
Why? Because it’s a secondary reward. Developers could easily give you nothing for completing 20k per two days. Developers could easily say:
No time to do so? Shit happens, wait another event. The option to pay with it for gold is a possibility for you to complete stages, you are literally not obligated to do so.
Well, it’s a random chest.
As someone who plays this game since zero, I can tell you that the Developers are carefully listening. Not everything will always be according to the wishes of everyone but former events had no secondary award at all. So by completing a stage with gold, nothing else as the promise to get the primary rewards was given. So therefore I see the 500 silver in your case as a little compensation “en plus”.