Contest difficulty per server feedback

[Hangry_Panda]

Are there any introspection and analysis performed by PB on contests after they end and adjustments made for the next contest at a per server basis? Or do all contest just increase in requirements across all servers at the same rate?

For example, on s25 and the current ongoing FTN contest, there’s 3 days remaining (and 2 days completed) and the majority of the top 5% hasn’t even reach the first progress goal of 325,000 points.

I understand each server has their own environment, economy, and power scaling compared to other servers, but I also feel that the top 5% of each server should be able to complete at least half of the progress goals per contest event.

Maybe the top 1% should be able to complete all progress goals, then top 5% complete 3/4 goals, and top 10% complete 1/2 goals, and top 25% complete 1/4 goals.

If the server’s top 25% or 50% can’t even reach the first progress goal after the event ends, then it feels like something is wrong with the contest parameters.

[Bluebandit93]

They honestly do not seem to care

If you do not hit the progress tiers, they want us to buy deals.

[Hangry_Panda]

To be honest, I’m more likely to leave the game than buy deals specifically for contests. While I’m just a large minnow and not a whale by any means, I’m not going to buy a deal just for a contest.

[Bluebandit93]

I think every day a larger and larger % of the player base is starting to feel that way…
Which is just speeding up the way to the end

[Jody_Caviness]

I remember during the first Community Contest, where the entire server works towards progress tiers, the point system was so harsh that after two days it was clear no server was going to reach all the progress tiers, so PerBlue adjusted the point system mid-contest to give every server a chance.

Somehow I doubt PerBlue would do the same for an individual contest, especially a Fortify the Network contest, but this one seems severe enough that they really ought to.

@Samm, can you let the appropriate team know about how much server 25 is struggling with the current contest, so they can confirm whether the numbers there are within their expectations?

[Hangry_Panda]

On s25 and as of now, not all of the top 1% has reach 1M points.

Other than the very first contest I played in last year when I joined (just before Mother Gothel PW), this will be the first time that I’ve not claimed the 1M progress rewards. So far I haven’t even cleared the first reward 375,000, so this is a first for me.

[Musketeer-Endgame]

On S1… over 1200 people got over 1M, with over 1 days left, and now cap raise so more people will spend too.