I was thinking about this recently and decided to ask you guys about it, so be sure to let me know what your thoughts are on this. Also, there's going to be a poll running in the Discord, so be sure to check that out and vote there if you can so I get get the best possible idea of what your guys' opinions are. To be clear, this is not something that we are currently planning on doing and is just an idea at the moment.
What this will entail is the deletion of the VIP leaderboards and the moving of all applicable VIP runs to the current Public server categories. EXISTING RUNS IN VIP WILL STAY ON THE LEADERBOARD AND NOT BE DELETED UNLESS THEY VIOLATE CURRENT RULES! Also, there will be an annotation next to platform to still differentiate between Public and VIP server runs as we believe while they may not be different enough to warrant different categories, they should be labeled differently due to being different server types.
The reasons for potentially implementing such a change are as follows:
- Runs in Public and VIP servers are essentially the same, the only difference being weather or not randoms can join. The issue comes from the fact that simply filling up a server with friends is essentially the same thing as a VIP server run, making VIP server runs no different to some Public server runs.
- There is no clear way to differentiate between Public and VIP server runs. So the only way for us to know for sure a run was submitted under the wrong category is the runner confirming after the fact.
- As of right now VIP server is hardly even run. In the past year, there have only been 14 VIP server runs compared to 372 Public server runs with no VIP server runs altogether in the past 3 months with the last verified VIP server runs having been done in early June. And, only 22 out of the current 102 possible categories actually have runs in them, leaving over 75% percent of VIP leaderboards completely empty.
Again, this is just me trying to gauge what you guys think. This is only an idea at the moment and there will be no such changes to the leaderboard unless there is a clear community concenous on integrating the 2 categories.
All views and opinions are welcome, all I ask is that you try to remain respectful to those who have a different opinion on this matter than you do.
