Bunch of dumdums in this thread don’t know what they’re talking about.

Since you can’t win anything in the first 2 weeks of your streak, that’s when you do the slow forums, meaning perman00bs (and re-res) are at no disadvantage in the last 2 weeks, when you’ll be earning your high end pistachio, as well as lemons. A small tradeoff is necessary though – if you don’t keep back a few anchor forums it’s more difficult to grab vanilla, and anchors are generally more difficult forums which can’t be grinded for lemons.

The more low level forums, and the greater availability of underpriced uber equipment, the easier it is for perman00bs and re-res to grab lemons in the last 2 weeks. Re-res still have a tough time earning vanilla when the forums are busy (Wednesday or Sunday, generally) since the number of forums they can speedrun are more restricted, and popular, but the same applies to lemons, where there are around 20-30 forums where it’s possible to grab lemon scoops.

Having a 4 forum advantage means your streak is longer, and you effectively get an extra 2 pistachio scoops for every day of the streak (20 scoops over 40 visits if you saved 12 visits for the week) That advantage disappears if streaks are capped at 100, but any disadvantage of playing a permanoob in dom disappears as we see more low level forums, and better equipment.