So all this time and they still haven't fixed these issues? GOOD GRIEF.

It simply isn't fair when high-pop worlds/DCs have a huge advantage over low-pop ones like this. It's even WORSE that failing the build "Fate" means you're locked out of Red Alerts and Mech Ops for EIGHT HOURS, either because someone on the dev team didn't realize LEAVING the Build Fate banner up would block those other two from manifesting, or something thought it *should* be a "punishment." I'm guessing it was probably the former, but couldn't they hotfix to move the "Fate" bar to another location on screen, and leave the top of screen for the other two?

Also, IMO, small pop-worlds and "Fates" that pop in the middle of the night on a weekday ought to be scaled up, maybe with progress going twice as fast or something?

I'm on a higher population world. So far we've not had a build "Fate" fail, thankfully, but I look at what's happening to folks on Dynamis, on Chaos, and some other DC's, and I'm like what the heck? I mean, why do we even HAVE "server and world standings" on lodestone in the first place, when this is so UNEVEN, and UNFAIR to the smaller-pop worlds/DCs?

BTW side note, it also kills me that the dang rabbit who gives individual "stellar standings" for 24 hrs for single players, is programmed to vague-book us ON our standings. Like, right after he "activates" for his next 24 hour period, he'll tell me "You're in the top 10%." Then ten minutes later he says something like, "Well we have your name recorded, so keep trying." WHAT? Why on earth won't he give us actual NUMBERS of where we stand? Because it makes a big difference if you're "Now in the top 15%," or "Now in the 50 percentile." And there's NOWHERE ELSE that I've found that gives ANYTHING on WHERE we stand---can't find anything on Lodestone or anywhere else. It's incredibly DEmotivating and discouraging to me, and to others I've spoken with about it.

And yet I see all the time on Lodestone character page people's ratings for Crystalline Conflict.... WHY do we not get that for THIS particular "contest"?

Honestly, the "contest" aspects of this whole Cosmic Exploration thing, are NOT well-planned. At ALL. It's so frustrating.

But of the two, I'd take getting the "Fate" issue (especially RAs and Tech Ops) fixed, over the individual standings things, because the former is affecting entire worlds... and as many have said here, worlds SE was BEGGING people to MOVE to in the first place. I just can't even. WHY? Folks on those worlds DESERVE a fair chance at meeting these arbitrary goals, dang it.

My heart goes out to all of you getting hit with these build "Fate Fails" and especially the lock-out for RAs and Tech Ops. It's like they're punishing you for not crossing the finish line in the race, when they started you 200 yards back from the others running it. It's just not fair.