Would just work perfectly fine if they swap the fact the second attempt cost ingots, in the sense, if they make the second ss plunder cost 10 ingots and 2nd coupons convoy free then the whole system would be fair.

The things that makes no sense here is the fact that convoys and plunders are theoretically group activities, but group rank or status don't matter anything for it.

If you are in the strongest group in the server, but exists a group composed by the 5 strongest people in the server + their alts then the fact you are in the strongest group of the server doesn't matter.