Hello everyone!
I would like to start the new thread in the Feedback section, as current Dev Shack is not really the place for such a feedback not connected with existing Tau Ceti #3 & incoming Conquest Rework update. I don't post much in the forum, because I am trying to spend my words talking to microphone for the
Pirates' Voice series, but I think I will make the video later on and now I will focus to explain the problem in the forums to let you read it and answer fast about the topic.
THE ISSUE
The thing started on the
DevShack forums. The problem is connected with
Cortex Challenge instance planets and
RavenDynamics event. I am referring here to the Ifrit
Cortex Challenge. The thing is, the evaluations are frequent (a lot more than regular
Cortex Instances) but in the same time a lot less cortex parts players are gaining for the
Top 10% players score. When low amount of players are participating then
only one squad is able to gain the cortex, considering low populated servers.
I must agree with the thing that this is the problem of the servers that have lower amount of people playing than on some server like
Gaia that is the most populated server right now in my opinion, guessing it by looking at their cortex scoreboard for the event.
If one squad is only getting huge rewards for the event, rest of people gets demotivated. Competition is ok in this case but efforts of all squads are not compensated well. Cortex instance takes a lot of time to finish, if we go for ifrits. So the time spent on the challenge isn't worth at all, if we gain basically nothing from it excepting the Raven Signets in the event that for most of people are now useless when they have reached the cap for this event season.
SOLUTION
Connecting all the ideas of people that was putting few of their words inside the topic before me, I would suggest something that will bring even more rewards for the winning team and in the same time, compensating the time that other squads would spend for the cortex instance. I don't really know if the thing is easy or not to implement, but the
RavenDynamics Cortex Instance itself could give
2 Ifrit parts for accomplishing the 10th wave, and then each 5th wave after this one, again
next 2 ifrit parts. That could bring some more competition in trying to get to 15th wave or highers for additional cortex parts and meanwhile, it wouldn't touch the ranking criterias.
Now, it comes with the problem - but Ifrit Cortex would be obsolete now as everyone will be able to achieve it. NO because:
1. Some people don't care at all about cortexes on their ship. They prefer just to buy ship for gold and 'cya'.
2. It is still not that easy sometimes to get to 10th wave. And to get the cortex parts we would need to pass 10th wave, that for
RavenDynamics event environment -
spawns double boss, so some groups are still not able to get to the wave.
BUT if the problem could be this part, criteria for additional Ifrit Cortex parts could be a higher wave passing, i.e. 12-13th wave.
3. The
RavenDynamics event could offer more cortexes than only Ifrit Cortex in the future. Like some:
a) speed cortex (
Flash Cortex* - if we are constantly flying, increases speed by 'x'%, turns off when stunned),
b) defence cortex (
Hercules Cortex* - increases defense by 'x'% if we are on high % of HP; reverse of the ifrit cortex) or
c) energy cortex (
Sapphire Cortex* - if we are at 'x'% of energy cap for 'y' time, the energy usage by the items are decreased for 'z'%).
Summaring, all of these aspects could be a good addition to the event. It would compensate the effort of less skilled squads with few cortex parts and in the same time, the most skilled ones would achieve their goals even faster than before.
I am waiting for your feedback about the idea and basically, about whole feedback on the issue.
* - names are examples and they don't need to look like this in the future 
its a good solid ship which !can! surpass the dominator with the armor. good work, i liked that one.
