Challenge Planets Issue

[Slird]

I have been playing Pirate Galaxy for a long time and have never been able to acquire a cortex. The main reason being that the high level players have always come with full squads and ancient tech to dominate the scoreboard.
How are even the mid-level players supposed to compete with that?
Why cant there be a rewards system based on pilot level or even a second and third place rewards factor?
Just curious.

 

[Mastian]

Cortex-parts aren't that usefull so... you don't need it.

 

[-BoH-]

Cortex-parts aren't that usefull so... you don't need it.

To be fair the red one is kind of a relief to have because you can do much more damage to your enemy when on low health.

 

[anthony.navas]

Cortex-parts aren't that usefull so... you don't need it.

To be fair the red one is kind of a relief to have because you can do much more damage to your enemy when on low health.

for PvP that does not work

 

[C_D]

Quoted from March 16, 2017 update

"General PvP
-Fixed a number of bugs that caused the following to not work in PvP: Pyrope Graviton, A110 Speed Drone, A112 Damage Amp Drone, Ifrit Cortex."

This cortex is actually very useful for ships like the Emperor, Locust, or Tank classes which can maintain below 25% health for extended periods of time. The extra damage helps a lot.

 

[Mastian]

So the Ifrit-Cortex is usefull but we can't get in on phobos or arkon

 

[-BoH-]

So the Ifrit-Cortex is usefull but we can't get in on phobos or arkon

Yeah, it was my favorite one out of all three, too bad we can only get in an event that might not come back. :/

 

[HGus]

Why cant there be a rewards system based on pilot level or even a second and third place rewards factor?
Just curious.

Actually, the system rewards the 10th percent of participant squads. Per example, if 10 squads are in the list, only the 1st one get a rewards, for 20 squads, the 1st and 2nd. I don't remember very well how intermediate numbers are rounded, but I think the system chooses the top neighbor: 1 place below 10 squads, 2 places below 20 squads and so on.

If a player is in more than one squad, only the highest ranked is choosen for the reward. Note that if you participate more than one time with same squad, only the highest score is saved. Also if you modify the squad (adding/kicking members, or changing the leader) it counts as a different squad, no matter if it keeps the same name.

That means that if after getting a good score with a full squad then you create a new squad even with only one member, you can add a dummy run with a single wave completed to increase the amount of attempts in the scoreboard to get more chances to get a reward for the full one.

 

[Slird]

Thankyou, HGus. That is helpful.