bugs

I wasn't in a clan when I got this trophy. What happened?

Weird, I checked and it said I got the achievement 63 days ago. Why did it now just decide to pop up?

Answer to your question.

In case you're lazy

Oct 2
• A series of changes aimed at making the monthly energy race more lucrative for individual performers:
Instead of 100 trophies being awarded to energy scorers at the end of the month, there are now 1,000 trophies: 10 platinums, 90 golds, 150 silvers, and 750 bronzes.
The new trophies have been retroactively awarded, so if you got new award notifications, that's why.
The history page now includes individual results in addition to clan results.
Like clan profiles, player profiles now show your energy ranking in past months.
The default sort in the HoF is now monthly energy.

Look, someone was even nice enough(not me, obviously) to provide you the information.

My attitude about being helpful changes on an hourly basis.

I noticed. Bipolar much?

My attitude about helping changes, Bipolar disorder is a condition in which people go back and forth between periods of a very good or irritable mood and depression.

That's not the case here. Fail much?

Should the same type of logic not be applied to levels.

With just the 1 plat being awarded each month, the top lvl bot can continue to consolidate their lead each month. Extending the plat award to let's say top 10 helps keep the race alive.

mouth waters at thought of new plat

I could go for some plats...

+1

hmm, nah

I think platinums for top 10 level is a good idea, considering that i sure does take alot of "effort" (online time) to be in it :)

Should the same type of logic not be applied to levels.

With just the 1 plat being awarded each month, the top lvl bot can continue to consolidate their lead each month. Extending the plat award to let's say top 10 helps keep the race alive.

I agree rose. The only potential problem is that if the same type of trophies are awarded to levelling bots (eg. top 100 = gold), there will be less incentive to try break into the top 25, since they will get the same trophy as someone at HoF #100. There is also the issue of giving the same reward to the top level bot as the 10th highest level bot. These are the issues with the monthly energy system that I don't really like, and are the reason I'd prefer to see the system revert back to '#1 gets plat, the rest get gold or lower'.

In my opinion, there's enough incentive to go for a gold over a silver as there is a platinum over a gold. I do agree that levelling bots should get the same rewards as energy scoring bots, but it seems Ender doesn't share the same belief.

I talked about this more extensively elsewhere when this change was made, but the basic reasoning for not including things like wins/levels is that those don't reset every month and thus don't require the same level of constant effort. The monthly energy race is the competition that's not going to be stale five years down the road and will be what new players participate in.

there are plenty of new players looking to become the top lvler. is that what you mean? that no new players want that title?

That may be true, but I don't think increasing the number of platinums available to energy scoring bots is going to increase the competitiveness for the top 10 spots, since there was already an incentive to go for the top 10 gold trophy before the change. Imo it is only reducing the competition for the top monthly energy trophy and the top 25 spots.

but the basic reasoning for not including things like wins/levels is that those don't reset every month and thus don't require the same level of constant effort.

I disagree. To maintain no1 & top 10 status you actually need to consistently train. There is no opportunity to take a month off as scorers can due to your competitors snapping at your heels.

I agree that a new player can not immediately compete in this race, but they are not excluded for life either. However with just the 1 plat being awarded this means that the no1 bot has a month on month advantage over all close competitors let alone any ambitious newbies.

Maybe look at the past two months history and see if it's the same bots in the top 10 for level. I would think that only the positions 8-12 would be changing (if at all) on a monthly basis.

I think my issue here is by rewarding just the top bot with this trophy it makes it harder for the bots beneath it to compete (without donating). So the lead is extended each month with bots below potentially having to expend a greater effort to try & catch the leader. Surely this situation can not be right.

So the other alternative is to award no trophy points to the top bot. tbh I don't care either way, I just want an even playing field.

i agree rose. the more plats available the better ;) because playing without buffs is unbearable.