Hey everyone!
So as you may have noticed, DEFCON is in. It's a system to reward you for completing Objectives, which were introduced a long while ago before being put on a hiatus due to dev team changes.
Since it was first publicly tested, it became quite obvious Objectives are quite hard to accomplish. So far we only had 1 round (the first one) to reach DEFCON 3, while most others end at DEFCON 4. This is obviously rather daunting, especially given how much work it takes to actually complete the objectives.
DEFCON system in its current form was introduced to give you at least some reward for doing the Objectives without reworking the Objective system. We will be looking into reworking the Objective system by itself as well to make it at least a bit more fun to accomplish and let you reach into the lower levels of DEFCON within some reasonable amount of effort.
In the meantime, please don't get discouraged by the current state of the Objective system - things won't stay this way.