Franko7o3 said: The Leaderboards are a great Idea but only the 500 Squadrons will win them always. So every "Season" the 3 biggest Squadrons will win it. Sounds fair... sounds exciting... not really... What about the Top 10? Or the Top 25? They get anything? Maybe it's worth thinking about this because working in a 2-3 month competition were you never will have a chance to win anything sounds boring for most of the (not 500 Member)-Squadrons. Maybe you can discuss this topic in an internal meeting @Will Flanagan? Click to expand...

It depends on the leaderboard - some are more competitive than others. For trade, combat or exploration, sure, those are big numbers games where your score basically just goes up from having members who play the game and you need to be big to win. The other four there's definitely room for smaller groups to grab a prize, at least for now, by focusing some dedicated effort on it.For example: my squadron is currently leading on one specialist leaderboard, by a large enough margin we're very confident in keeping that position in the remaining days, and we have just over twenty members. But the activity that counts for the leaderboard is "what we do" as a player group - and what we've been doing for years before there were leaderboards for it - so we've got twenty members putting in more points each than most entire squadrons together.I think we probably need to see more types of specialised leaderboards where a mid-sized squadron could really make a play for the top by going all out for it, while a 500-strong squadron is never going to be organised enough (and, well, fair play to them if they are!).There could even be per-season specials: e.g. season 4 leaderboard for the most rares delivered to the Crab Nebula, season 5 leaderboard for the most Security Firmware Patch collected/traded for, season 6 leaderboard for the largest number of mollusc research samples sold, etc. Make them specific enough not to just be numbers games, vary the gameplay each time to suit various styles of play, let the mid-sized groups pick a season that looks good for them and really push it.