So here's my take on convoy and plunder.
YES currently the system is quite inbalanced and favor the strong and big spenders. Only the strong would consider plunder because they can guarenteed to win in any fights whatsoever. In my server, most plunderers are super strong and normal people cannot take them out. I'm ranked 6-7? The top 5 players normally do plunder while the rest do convoy. All people in the top 5 belongs to 1 guild (and they only plunder our group). The friend help doesn't work at all because a ranked 6 would always lose to ranked 5 and 2nd round a ranked XYZ would always lose to a ranked 5 fully healed.
What they should do is make the friend fight ALONGSIDE with you so it's a 2 vs 1 and there's a chance to win against a plunder. (Indirectly forces the plunderers who are just slightly better th* but can't fight a 2 vs 1 to give up and just do convoy).

This post was last edited by sai***@gmail.com at 2017-1-9 12:32