Quote from: suchmoon on January 25, 2018, 04:25:42 PM

Quote from: cryptocrusher on January 25, 2018, 04:12:36 PM

Also, given that sMerit is effectively pointless after Legendary status would it not be worth considering making it only giftable to ranks below legendary, that way it at least encourages the progression for some of the lower ranks? Granted some legendary members will want to accumulate it as an accolade.

Legendaries can (and may be more inclined to) spread sMerit to others, so it's not pointless.

I think you perhaps misunderstood my point, I am well aware the Legendary ranks will have much sMerit to spread around compared to other ranks. My point is that once you have reached Legendary rank you have nowhere left to go after that, if someone then gives you some merit, it is effectively wasted on your account.

Quote from: TheQuin on January 25, 2018, 04:27:56 PM

Quote from: cryptocrusher on January 25, 2018, 04:21:54 PM

Because next week there will be someone in the exact same position as you, who is one activity week away from a new rank. You're right in that it is not a 'fair' way to do it because someone who is just one activity period ahead of you is now a long way ahead, but your suggestion isn't the solution.

That's exactly it. The only thing would have been fairer would be a slightly more granular distribution of the initial merit points based on activity rather than just rank. As it has been implemented now I would think it would be very difficult to go back and change that. So let it be, some people will feel hard done by, but that's usually the way with change.

Exactly, which has already been mentioned back in the thread much earlier, I think realistically as you said, it's now too late to go back and change that, but in hindsight I hope at least it can be seen that it would have been a better way to have done it, or even to give everyone halfway between their current rank and the next one, some people will gain and some will lose but at least it wouldn't be to quite the same extreme.