It's not fraud, but it is misleading the players with the intent to force them to spend as much money and effort as possible in this event. Plus, they purposefully didn't release enough information as to how doable this event will be for F2P players. Fraud? No. Malicious? Yes.

It seems Trickster will inevitably be the new Crisis drone for non-buyers. Just imagine all the Hoppers flying around with incredible speeds (even though this is still being tweaked on the test server); CTF/RGB battles will be utterly unplayable now. If these changes occur, not only will Trickster's current effects be gone, but in its place we will have this Crisis-esque crap to deal with. And the new changes to supplies are to force everyone to spend crystals upgrading drones just to get their supply power back to how it was before. Bad move, Alternativa. For reference: https://ibb.co/kgPFSsV

New stats for Trickster drone today: https://ibb.co/kgPFSsV