Fortunato Posted:

Let’s do a little bit of math. there’s around 170000 characters right now. That means that the top 10% is seventeen thousand characters. The top 1% is 1700. I don’t know about anyone else, but that would qualify me for just about every percentage-based milestone peen around. I don’t think it’s unfair to say that describes practically every active player in the game. This would seriously devalue a leaderboard milestone peen if everyone who played for a week got it. What about milestone peens for getting to the second page or the first page of the leaderboard? That’s about where you need to get if you care about that peen, in my opinion.

Instinctively, to me, setting a static number target with a theoretically growing playerbase is problematic. If a player stays active after hitting that point, there’s just no way a new player can break in.

If it were instead a percentile based on active players that pruned inactive former players from the boards (based on whatever definitions of active/inactive seem appropriate to The Powers That Be), I would be more likely to sign onto that. My usual disclaimer applies.