fructy wrote:Does anyone think that TNT is using this ranking to stimulate player to play alot of hours on the site a day? Maybe even an abnormal amount of hours? People want to do well in the cup, and knowing the ranks might give them a push to play more to achieve that goal. I mean, normally we get to know the ranks afterwards and the ranks do seem a little steep to me. You'd have play hours and hours a day to get to the top shield. Aren't they stimulating kids to play too much on the site by setting the standard so high?
I was wondering about that as well. After all, Neopets does claim to be a child friendly site, and encouraging children to play several hours a day is not exactly good for them. Of course those who have the time and skills should get better prizes, but it would be nice if at least the first four ranks or so were reachable by playing less than an hour per day.
I don´t think that it should really make a difference to them whether you play half an hour per day or five hours per day, as long as you come every day. You cannot read any advertisements while you are playing yyb anyways.
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Now someone mathematically inclined can try to work out what that means about the weighting of the support games... Please? 
Lost Desert has been in 4th place on about 90% of the standings petpages for a good while now (I want to say for over a week, but I can't back that up, it just feels like it). Everybody's been so focused on the "top 3" that I guess they just haven't noticed us sitting there for so long. Supposedly we're #1 in MSN, and #2 (with 0 losses!) in SS. Since most people seem to look at YYB and YYB only, I guess that's how we've been overlooked. Our record number of draws weighed us down too, but they still count for something apparently! <end mini-rant> Wasn't directed at you, afyapardess, just the general "omg LD is good?" attitude everywhere 
Either that, or I spend the entire 3 minutes trying to score a goal with a Darigan or Faerie ball because I can't quiiiiiiiiite line it up just right. Ah well. Hopefully I can live with my so-so perfomance when the prizes get awarded.
Darigan thrashed Roo Island this time around. Bye-bye, top spot. The same has happened with the LD. This illustrates Cranberry's point: Darigan underestimated RI in round 1, but this time they took us seriously and look, we get squished.
