Basically I had a showerthought:
Update the events bot (including new events optional) so that you have a very small chance (say, 1-2% or less) of obtaining a loot crate from participating (not necessarily winning) in events bot events.
These loot crates can contain anything from gun skins, freebie items (grenades, burgers etc), to 1 or 2 EC (obviously EC would have a smaller drop rate than other rewards).
This would breath life into the events bot and would also allow players to collect EC at a steady but slow rate, because there will always be periods where its hard to play and win admin hosted events.
Something to think about.
Examples of these kinds of loot crates can be seen in games like Overwatch, Counterstrike etc.
It could possibly be a feature for VIP players, but it would good if it was for everyone.
I know this'll get poo-poo'd because of people not wanting the economy to change but it'd be noice for newbies like me lol