Ricket Posted:

Honestly, I win either way. Either it’s retired and everyone who ever had any hope of topping me has their dreams smashed instantly, or I continue running away with the top place on this board, and dreams are smashed over the lifetime of my account, as people slowly realize that I’m a bastard who isn’t going to stop. (That’s one way they’re different, Acid Flux. Log in to see images!

Well, there ya go, at least there’s a critical difference between the two.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding. Is there any valid reason we can’t have both a Leaderboard for most visits and Milestone E-Peens? If it’s an either/or proposal, I’d rather see Milestones instead of Leaderboard, so that more people can strive for them with a reasonable chance of success.

But if we can have both, then I don’t see why this is a problem, sort of like the Job Board. Don’t we have E-Peen for topping that board, as well as ‘milestone’ E-Peens?

If having both was an option, how many of us would support that?

People used to whine about closing the Flezz leaderboard too, but now you can see why that would’ve been a mistake.

How do we know that nothing similar will ever happen with Forums Pwned? Just let it exist.

Acid Flux Posted:

If having both was an option, how many of us would support that?

Just rename the current top leaderboard peens, make it a goal which hasn’t been achieved yet, and possibly add further milestones for down the road. So players can still achieve the existing peen without it being an exclusive reward. If there’s a way to remove topping the leaderboards as an ingame goal, it should be done. Perhaps keep the leaderboards for vanity/statistics/general interest purposes only, but remove the reward incentive.

I don’t really see a difference between this leaderboard peen and any other peen that nobody who doesn’t have it will ever get.

Barring unusual cirgreat timesstances, nobody who doesn’t have them is going to ever get: Day One, First to the Finish Line, Obey the Permanoob, Vanilla Rush, Vanilla Addict, Code Breaker, E-Pint™ We Broke IDC!, The Artist, Night of the Living Crotched, Dumpster Diver, The June Twenty-Second Incident, Failblazer, Threadconstructr SUPREME, Awesome Sauce™, Quality Unbumurance, Let Them Eat Cake, Pumpkin Krewe, An Extra Quarter, Friend of Bootyhole, Our Personal Army, Census Worker, Baby Bump, Foiled by an bum!, Oranje Pride, or I’ll BINGE to that, Jingjing, Patience My bum, Gambling Addiction, Impressively Pathetic, That’s In-Cred-Ible, and the Season 1 and 2 Dungeon Master, Dominatrix, Submissive, or Gimp peens.

Why don’t we just add 1337 to that list and go on with our lives.

The only real reason to retire that board is if Evil Trout thinks that leaderboard is boring and wants to replace it with something similar that’s less boring.

Shii Posted:

This.

People need to stop whining. Not everyone is ever going to be able to get every peen. Move on with your lives.

We’re not talking about every peen though. This is about the competitive leaderboard peen, not the event based peen (there is for instance no ‘Day 1’ leaderboard)

It’s not a game without rewards for achievement or progress (as in the medal you were allowed last week) and if those rewards are impossible to achieve, then people lose interest and drift away, unless they find some other incentive to stick around.

So how should this game judge how players have been doing, and reward them for their progress? All the metrics for doing so are currently leaderboards.

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Nicco Posted:

Introducing Milestone E-Peens (250 Forums Pwned, 500 Forums Pwned, etc.) would be a better much idea because it’s atleast rewarding, unlike now.

I like that idea too. As the Leaderboards, I’ve never really been too bothered either way.