It’s kind of weird to think about it this way, but in truth, being more efficient at pwning forums has a negligible effect on the truly competitive aspects of the game. There are the Cred and Flezz leaderboards, true, but almost everyone serious about competing there is sucked up into the game enough to *want* to pay for Episode 2.

The only way Episode 2 *really* effects competitive schemes is with raiding- in theory, people who could Episode 2 forums would have a serious edge over those that couldn’t. But if Episode 2 and 1 players get separated in dom, this isn’t really an issue.