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Thats the way I see it. As Ive stated a couple of times recently, in my opinion, there doesnt seem to be much of an issue with merits in terms of earning a few (for those that really set their mind and fat/mid/thin fingers to the task), but rather with earning enough to make ranking pace become an incentive and not a deterrent for those that, lets use a recent commonly repeated expression here, are net positive.
Those that excel is some way or other have no real issue with ranking speed, and those that create crap are never going to rank-up, but there are many people in between, that are being merited, but whose ranking-up speed is pretty slow (a person who makes decent contributions should earn an average of 1 merit per day in order to rank-up at the same rate as before activity aside).
With nearly a year into the Merit system, weve got:
5 New Legendries (from Hero)
24 New Heroes (from Sr. Member and Full Member)
83 Sr. Members (from Full Member, Member and Old Era Newbie)
153 Full Members (from Member, New Era Newbies and Old Era Newbies)
3.028 Members (from New Era Newbies and Old Era Newbies)
9.164 Jr. Members (from New Era Newbies and Old Era Newbies)
But the ranking-up pipeline looks like this
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CurrentRank segment nUsers
Hero Member 0. Being considered for Legendary 80 (they have the minimum activity of the range, and most of the merit from the airdrop)
Hero Member 1. Could have ranked up to Legendary, lacking Merit 616
Hero Member 2. Could have ranked up to Legendary, lacking Activity 2
Hero Member 3. Soon may rank up to Legendary 3
Hero Member 4. Not enough activity nor Merit to rank up to Legendary 488
Sr. Member 1. Could have ranked up to Hero Member, lacking Merit 1137
Sr. Member 2. Could have ranked up to Hero Member, lacking Activity 12
Sr. Member 3. Soon may rank up to Hero Member 5
Sr. Member 4. Not enough activity nor Merit to rank up to Hero Member 801
Full Member 1. Could have ranked up to Sr. Member, lacking Merit 2583
Full Member 2. Could have ranked up to Sr. Member, lacking Activity 12
Full Member 3. Soon may rank up to Sr. Member 1
Full Member 4. Not enough activity nor Merit to rank up to Sr. Member 763
Member 1. Could have ranked up to Full Member, lacking Merit 4273
Member 2. Could have ranked up to Full Member, lacking Activity 13
Member 3. Soon may rank up to Full Member 1
Member 4. Not enough activity nor Merit to rank up to Full Member 1330
Jr. Member 1. Could have ranked up to Member, lacking Merit 6564
Jr. Member 2. Could have ranked up to Member, lacking Activity 437
Jr. Member 3. Soon may rank up to Member 21
Jr. Member 4. Not enough activity nor Merit to rank up to Member 2154