Tzazon
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I voted no. Not because I care about my stats or anything like it, and depending on how its done I'd change my opinion to yes, for a few reasons I'll state. Although I do think for those on the first page of the leaderboard, and even more specifically a good friend who I won't name but was gearing towards being #1 and getting there fast and many like him are getting pushed out of the chance of getting it by this event and the work they've put in for a year or two of their life playing a game of catchup is now meaningless because they lost.
1. The way I see a perfect leaderboard being put into place is one that resets every January 1st pushing the previous data into a legacy leaderboard type deal for the year, a fresh start and new beginnings every year for those who constantly get better over the years. That way you could do giveaways, events of that sort to the top 5 or top 10 of the year with the reset being this big thing in the community. Also resetting it on January 1st if possible for the first reset would be a good set date for those who do have some goals with their stats before the leaderboard gets reset.
2. There has to be increased moderator surveillance on the month of the reset, the staff has to be prepped and ready to go like they're prepared for nuclear Armageddon. The influx of hackers, and general rulebreakers will most likely be like nothing MCSG has ever seen before. Like previous posts have said, winboosters who chill in a group of people terrorizing games and then giving the win away to someone, to just plain old hackers all fighting for that #1 position of the month and the year/alltime until the leaderboard reset will be in place is going to be a really high number. With all of that ontop of it flaming and harassment probably would go up as well. Friends of whoever is in the top arguing with whose better, accusing others of hacks and just general flame wars during a turbulent time of unknowns and what ifs until those questions are slowly but surely settled. Honestly on top of that I'd even like to suggest a set of 10-20 or more servers set aside where your stats aren't saved just so people who don't really care much about their stats have a safe haven from the entirety of the mess of people trying hard and going all out to be #1 making it more of a hardcore game than a casual one. Although even with just monthly resets it'll be more of a hardcore than a casual game.
I have a few more thoughts on it I'll end up posting later when I get the time, and sorry if I'm just repeating the 80 other pages of posts. I didn't have time to go through all of them, hopefully I at least offered something new to the discussion somewhere.
In short though, my vote for no like I imagine a few other no votes could be swayed to yes if just done right.
1. The way I see a perfect leaderboard being put into place is one that resets every January 1st pushing the previous data into a legacy leaderboard type deal for the year, a fresh start and new beginnings every year for those who constantly get better over the years. That way you could do giveaways, events of that sort to the top 5 or top 10 of the year with the reset being this big thing in the community. Also resetting it on January 1st if possible for the first reset would be a good set date for those who do have some goals with their stats before the leaderboard gets reset.
2. There has to be increased moderator surveillance on the month of the reset, the staff has to be prepped and ready to go like they're prepared for nuclear Armageddon. The influx of hackers, and general rulebreakers will most likely be like nothing MCSG has ever seen before. Like previous posts have said, winboosters who chill in a group of people terrorizing games and then giving the win away to someone, to just plain old hackers all fighting for that #1 position of the month and the year/alltime until the leaderboard reset will be in place is going to be a really high number. With all of that ontop of it flaming and harassment probably would go up as well. Friends of whoever is in the top arguing with whose better, accusing others of hacks and just general flame wars during a turbulent time of unknowns and what ifs until those questions are slowly but surely settled. Honestly on top of that I'd even like to suggest a set of 10-20 or more servers set aside where your stats aren't saved just so people who don't really care much about their stats have a safe haven from the entirety of the mess of people trying hard and going all out to be #1 making it more of a hardcore game than a casual one. Although even with just monthly resets it'll be more of a hardcore than a casual game.
I have a few more thoughts on it I'll end up posting later when I get the time, and sorry if I'm just repeating the 80 other pages of posts. I didn't have time to go through all of them, hopefully I at least offered something new to the discussion somewhere.
In short though, my vote for no like I imagine a few other no votes could be swayed to yes if just done right.
