Contest: The best will find their reward!

What cypriiisek mention is exactly the problem everyone will face trying to get higher score than the current top ranking. We get so little for winning, but a lost cost us so much, without any consecutive wins, there is no way to get to top ranking

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@Kawaikunai: People with highest ranks can't send their score now either. There's a period of submission and anything outside that period is not valid. Besides, even if they could, I'm sure in one week their score would not be the same, so the submitted score won't match the real one, and won't be valid either.

You should really figure out how the game works. For your score to change, you need to enter the bg and either win or lose. If you have a high enough score, you can also not participate in the BG so you can keep it.

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You have many time to get good personal rating(PR), i you have low PR now, then you win and get nearly 100points,repeated wins and go for it! Now is not the end of the event, just the opposite - the beginning

I'm in the high 1200 rating(cause I dun log off from losses). At that stage I get less than 10 points for a win and lose around 50 for loss. To catch up with the 1600+ crowd, I'd need to win over 30 games and every time I lose, that'd add another 4 games(or ~2h) to the counter. Now, I could start logging to avoid point loss or get my guildies into a stacking game to ensure wins. But I just can't bring myself to cheating my way to the top. And, frankly, I don't want to compete against cheaters either.

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to SiS: This is only my feedback, my view
make next event for pvp and pve servers alone.

As said Sane in Today, 11:17 am, he is on PVP server, rank 6 = 1561 points, i am on rank 2 and have 1381 differences between them that we havent a very active player in the corsair, win give me 6 points and one loss -84 points .. how can i get 1561 points without Defeated? 1561-1381 = 180 points / 6 = win for another 30 win in a row, one loss and take down - 84 points .. wery fast and up is too long. They have such a high score because they were not as good, but because they have more active players who are rising up with a win and picking up your overall ranking.

Just to clarify, it's not because we have more higher ranked players queuing - when a top rated player wins a game we gain about 2 - 3 rating per win. Considering you have to go through a couple of hundred rating like this to achieve a top rank, this ultimately means you have to play an absurd amount of corsair and make sure that you are always winning.

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lol naga... I would never use that plastic crap again. not fan of this roccat mouse either but I could be almost 100% sure that it will last twice as long as the razer mouse.

I would rather drive a porche for a year than nissan micra for 3 years.

Not sure what are u talking about - Naga has 3 year guarantee for buttons etc but if u smash it in rage yes ofc it will break very easily. I smashed my first naga after 11 months but it was working perfectly until then.

Well, this contest is already rigged...i won't quote the names of non legit players. But i saw a few top ranked players using bug exploits or glitchs to get some easy wins.
I wanted to believe in a fair competition but its always fucked up since gameforge seems not to care about cheaters
Maybe, i should take a screenshot or something but im tired of it.
Indeed, i explain what i saw and noticed. They can take airships with more than 5 players staying on their mounts and flying forward the airship. The most annoying thing is that they can't be killed by canons or something and can easily pass through defenses since they are able to "fly" lol...
I did 2 games with an alt this night, one win with them and one lose against these same players who are using this glitch. And they re not members of a "random small guild" but one of the biggest on killian...
Im sick of this even if i didn't try to win this event because it still encourages cheats, bug exploits and glitchs

Gameforge
Appointing someone to do events IS a step in the right direction. You guys were so far pretty distant from your 'flagship' item that it was absurd. You need to get involved with your product more. Look at your other f2p games where you have 'something' EVERY week. People who play MMO are easily bored and to be honest you have everything at your disposal, so its not people playing. Its you. So far new items in shop every 2-3 weeks and occasional bonus thalers is simply NOT enough. You NEED to have something EVERY WEEK(END).

SiS
Although event seems neat, it looks like you havent really thought it out right. Dont be discouraged, we need someone to do this and doing a fluke or two will be fast forgotten if you do other ones right.

Some general suggestions:
-Having people winning on different servers is GOOD. The way you setup this people on some servers have clear advantages and I wont be surprised that 8 out of 10 rewards go to same server people (I would put money on that those 8 will be from same guild as well).
-Not separating pvp and pve is BAD. Its like having rewards for competition only for women when males can participate too.
-Timed events need to FAVOR everyone the same, I agree with previous posters on that one. What you are doing now is like giving gold medals to runners in marathon although some need to run 80km and some 100m.
-Rewarding something 'new' like corsairs is not good. If you want to promote it, fine, but problem is, corsairs is filled with exploits and bugs as any new and not tested enough feature. For example you could have rewarded people who finished most corsairs in some time frame cause that would be more fair (although that would favor jobless and lifeless).

Anyway, although you stumbled along the way, kudos for trying