The issues with Skybuilder Rankings

[Rymm]

If only there was some sort of automatic system in place that could limit the amount of time that people are allowed to access a game, to force them to log out and prevent them from playing themselves sick... oh wait. There is. It's called "Parental Controls" because the only people who shouldn't be 100% capable of prioritizing their well-being over a video game are children who have not yet matured enough to be responsible for themselves.

Any adult who is incapable of doing this on their own has much bigger issues that need to be addressed and should probably see a professional.

[Nandrolone]

Weird flex but ok

[Miminming]

i think they should limit the item you can turn in per day, maybe 20 or 30, yes several people will get the 1st ranking but be real, how many people atm that max 20 or so expert recipe per day? that alone net 30k point which not many people did atm anyway and people who did that is already in top 12, only the top3 actually over done stuff...

[Moonlite]

Funny that limiting amount of play. They did that in 1.0 and were crucified for it. If you played way too long you had diminishing returns. They even had fancy pictures to show why and how it worked.

[KageTokage]

i think they should limit the item you can turn in per day, maybe 20 or 30, yes several people will get the 1st ranking but be real, how many people atm that max 20 or so expert recipe per day? that alone net 30k point which not many people did atm anyway and people who did that is already in top 12, only the top3 actually over done stuff...

I've been doing 30-40 expert crafts a day, personally.

Might grind them out for a whole day or two depending on badly I tank by the end of today.

[Dogempire]

It kind of depends on your leaderboard, some are full of people who do 30-40+ crafts a day and others might have a pretty low score for top 12

Though honestly, if you can expert craft consistently, you can get into top 12

[RyuSaarva]

we should also take gil away from rich people and give it to casual players who play maybe 30 minutes daily.

[Canadane]

There is no difference here compared to any other aspect of the game. The no-lifers will generally attain things first, with everyone else catching up to them.
Crafting has never been an exception to this, but I think the scoreboard coming back after about 8 years has shown some people may not have realized it since they'll only do things when attention is brought to it.

[Rufalus]

Guess I'm in a bad datacenter for this. Got people doing up to 350K per day on DoH which is so far beyond extreme or what you could imagine being possible even if able to maintain intense focus on zero sleep. That guy got 500K in multi classes already.

I picked the worst class to try, with a dozen people now pulling 50K-200K daily making it a very competitive "no life" to get the Top 12 achievement / title. I keep considering dropping out or switching to a less competitive class this late because it is possible I could push my limits getting up really early each morning to fit more repetitious synths in and still not get a good rank.

On a healthier datacenter a fraction of these scores would be good enough for top 12. So yeah depending where you are this is a very draining competition both physically and mentally. Basically who can play the game the longest over a long 10-day period. 5 days would be better.

[Vahlnir]

I just don't believe anything should be designed around the question of: "How long can you keep this up for?"

To be fair, that's pretty much every MMO ever with just about any content and RNG. Obviously some take it way too far though, but there's always going to be those people. Unfortunately, they cause themselves problems that they alone can stop from happening to begin with. I do realize that some do not have that level of self control, but that isn't the vast majority of MMO players. Most players know when enough is enough.