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First thank you to our Discord members who have provided a ton of feedback already about making the leaderboard function to the best possible extent. These ideas are being presented here because they have already been extensively vetted by Discord members, and the broad consensus is that it is a good idea. Presenting it on the forum is the final step before starting to implement these changes in game.

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Problem #1The "points this year categories":
-The foundation category is unrunnable on older eras. There is no point in us having a board that can never run.
-The second gen category is either unrunnable or only accessible to a very small number of players who have been playing for ages and happen to have access to the genetics of those ancient foundations. (I don't think outlast to win is much more fair than pay to win.)
-Finally the lined category is all 13+ horses, most of them 14+ and even 15+. That is fine in isolation but going from second gens to cap+ quality is a HUGE jump.

Proposed Fix #1
I believe in June we should change the foundation, 2nd gen/lined boards to be broken up by PT instead of by generation. I am proposing the following categories

Silver Circuit - For horses of foundation to third gen levels of ability. (Roughly below 11.5 PT aka roughly A papers and below)

Gold Circuit -For horses of 4th to 6th gen levels of ability (Roughly 11.5 to 13.2 aka roughly *star and low **star)

Platinum Circuit- Everything at roughly cap quality at above.

I am using "roughly" a lot here because the actual divisions would be based the secret training number of the horse. I can't use PT for the divisions because PT can be artificially lowered via inconsistency. (and is therefor exploitable) The general vibe is though if you are breeding lower end ability those horse lands in Silver, mid range the horse is in Gold, and top end they are in Platinum.

-Effectively this means the second gen and first gen boards will end up combining into Silver Circuit. The lined category becomes Platinum Circuit, and Gold Circuit will be filled with horses that had no place on the LB before.
-This makes sure every category for every club has a chance to run. Both era clubs and the rare color clubs can suffer from a lack of foundation horses. This solves the issue for both.
-This change would provide a place on the boards for new bootstrap lines, new players, old genetics you love but are not cap quality, etc. A much larger range of breeding becomes accessible to all players.
-Statistically some players may win less GMTs in the reshuffle. However; because this activates a ton of categories that were not paying GMTs before, on a whole, it will cause a net increase in payouts across the game. Those players that may have lost some wins because of foundation and 2nd gen combining are statistically just as likely to win some points in the new middle weight category.


I am proposing this chance happen with the introduction of the new era on June 1st.

Feedback and questions on this change is very welcome.

Please note this is post 1 of 2. There is another post of proposed changes coming asap.

Other proposed changes would start in December.