meeeeeeeeee Posted:

Max delivery + earnings from jobs. That’s another 70k or so per day. This in itself is a reason why the top of the flezz leaderboard is unlikely to change in the near future – players going for the job points peen, who already have the flezz peen.

Yes, this is absolutely true and for active endgame players this requires a sacrifice. You cannot job board and pistachio loop. Yes, a player can win without pistachio in most brackets, but certainly not in all. Additionally, there have definitely been days when twelve 5 point jobs are not available, this means either sacrificing job points or solo vanilla. (Yes, I know this only applies to Dom players.)

Overall, I just think that by definition a “leaderboard” should not hold a built in penalty. Some outside adjustment factor should be chosen instead.

Look at it from the perspective of other “leaderboards”. Would it make any sense if the person with the highest Forumbuildr score was taxed a submission each day they held the top spot? Or the top forums pwned was taxed a visit each day? Or most INCIT wins had one of their posters deleted daily? I need all of those peens, but I’m very aware that something like that would be an awful idea. Over time it leads to a base where everyone has everything and there is no reason to put in the effort because you can just plod along and someone else will eventually be penalized enough to hand you what you want.

Outside goals that force a player to choose/sacrifice make more sense. Yes, that means someone can choose to hog a board, but in choosing to do so, they must sacrifice achieving some alternate goal. The type of player who only does one thing is the type of player who will get bored and end up inactive, thus self eliminating.

I was hit by the Obama tax for almost 3 million. OMG, why did I not get a special “Obama whored me out of millions!” peen? Why didn’t I get more notice to hold deliveries. Blah blah blah. That’s silly. The Obama tax was funny. Maybe it should have only hit those who voted for him, since they basically agreed to the conditions by voting, I don’t know. I didn’t purchase any items, anyone who did lost more than the tax hit for since items resell for far less than a 25% hit. I did have items that I hadn’t sold prior to the tax that I sold after it hit.