SG94 Posted:

If the board’s thrown out in (say) three days, how is that fair to players who reach the cap a day later? Because it isn’t.

Even I have the rotten leaderboard Peen while I didn’t even start playing E2 until after my other fabulous persons beat it. Is that fair? If so, what about my Re-Re who has been stuck by a bug for three days now? He’s screwed out of it?

What about players who tried to get this peen for MONTHS making serious effort, sacrificing week after week of domination for this peen that is now just an automatic bonus upon hitting the cap (which already gives E-Peen) until some completely arbitrary cutoff point? This sucks.

Normally I’d agree, but this isn’t an e-peen for the Level Cap, it’s an e-peen for a leaderboard. Leaderboards aren’t supposed to be equal opportunity, anyway, and they never have been. Clbum, date joined, forums unlocked, and even luck/game bugs have always played a role in excluding people from leaderboard e-peens. The fact that a game quirk has made it easy for a great deal of us to get the e-peen doesn’t change that.

Anyone (other than Re-Res) who has sacrificed months of effort should be able to pull this off in the next couple days, and if you ARE a Re-Re you never had a chance at the top anyway. Any person who doesn’t have Episode 2 might find this tricky, but if you sacrificed months of effort but don’t want to spend ten dollars on the biggest content update the site has ever had… well, that’s just wacky.