• Let’s start with some sad news: Snaeky was the last vic­tim of the save switch bug where a save is over­writ­ten and lost his main save (I hope this will be re­solved soon!). So re­mem­ber kids: al­ways make backup and do it reg­u­larly enough! We do have a web­site for that if you don’t have your own cloud stor­age.
• Playspout is the first per­son to break 6700 tau! Con­grats!
• I man­aged to make the rank­ings a bit earlier! I won’t try to say I’ll keep it at that but it’s something^^
• Gilles was on va­ca­tion, he cer­tainly de­served it. Okay, so when 1.5? ;)
• In im­port­ant news: d4N­f6Bg5 over­took birrel (if this seems like ran­dom news to you: no prob­lem). This did maybe show the prac­tical ef­fect of over­push and keep­ing 2 saves at the same time.
• Playspout did it again and man­aged to get a cus­tom the­ory to the new limit of e150 tau: Se­quen­tial Lim­its has been fin­ished!

So after once again avoid­ing the rank­ings in fa­vor of news for a bit, it is fi­nally time for the up­date!

Oc­to­ber 2022 Top 20 on the lead­er­board, their at the time the list was com­piled and their Dis­cord con­nec­tion (Dis­cord names in brack­ets are not their nick­names!):

1. Gen­Er­a­tion­Na­tion (Gen) - ee67017:

While he can­not con­sist­ently keep up the 1000 mes­sages per month, the Jug­ger­naut is not stop­ping any time soon, neither in­game, nor in the server. Maybe not at the ab­so­lute top for CTs (“only” Top 3) but still go­ing strong enough with ac­cel (the mad­man^^) to hold off Playspout from #1 for an­other in­stance of the rank­ings.

2. (+1) HeadedArt26 (Playspout) - ee67003:

If you ever looked at the re­cord sheet you should know him be­cause he’s lit­er­ally every­where there (still hold­ing him off from T2/​T4 for now^^). Also pretty act­ive here, do­ing everything ima­gin­able! Ad­ded fun fact: did ee50000 without T9. I won­der if there is any­thing he is­n’t act­ive in^^

Playspout is the Ling Ling of Ex­po­nen­tial IdleAct­ive with 40 hours a day (and more saves than any per­son should have) and still search­ing for new the­ory strats and writ­ing and and and. After hid­ing his for a while he man­aged to sur­pass Gen already dur­ing the month but for this month he has to stay be­hind. Next month will be see­ing him on top I’d as­sume!

3. (-1) Eld­rail (AfuroZamurai) - ee66494:

Al­ways a bit dif­fi­cult to write about one­self^^ Activ­ity here is more in phases but at least pretty reg­u­larly (so hope­fully daily), in the game I do like my idle the­or­ies (who could’ve guessed?). Fa­vor­ite phrase: Time for act­ive the­or­ies I guess^^ (while not do­ing that un­til I set my­self a chal­lenge). Also loves chess.

Have to work on my over­push be­cause my one month in­ter­mezzo as #2 was of course short-lived and I hope I can get near Playspout again at some point be­fore I’m over­taken.

4. Vin­tage­Sur­fer­56606 (kinger55) - ee66233:

He has dis­covered the main reason to be on the server: the tau bot^^ Else he’s not really par­ti­cip­at­ing (un­less I ask for a tau up­date) but he’s a force on the lead­er­board for sure. He cer­tainly figured out CTs and firmly planted him­self in the Top 5 though Top 3 is once again a bit out of reach. If I had to bet I’d say he’ll get there one day! Not this month though^^

5. Black­Seal94 (Black­Seal) - ee66190:

Sel­dom seen here but al­ways great to see him up­date his in­sane T6 stat (dis­count­ing Playspout who should­n’t count any­ways)^^ Cus­tom the­or­ies have kind of awoken him to be more act­ive here, which is nice. It also made him more act­ive in the rank­ings, which is not so nice ;)

He had turned on CT over­drive but as the new CTs lose their power he’s back to catch­ing up. For now the surfer still hold him off but Top 5 is now se­cure!

6. Adam­H99 (nemesis) - ee66152:

Found the server some while ago and no longer an un­known! Looks like he is back to fast and steady, get­ting pretty close to the Top 5.

So for a while he is con­sist­ent and so I just hope he loses mo­tiv­a­tion he con­tin­ues to go strong. Good at minigames!

7. (+1) An­thari­on1988 (An­tharion) - ee65766:

The ori­ginal le­gend, long­time #1, cre­ator of the ori­ginal tau sim­u­lator and sadly not that act­ive any­more (both in the game and on the server), though we can still see him (and he’s cer­tainly not given up^^) quite reg­u­larly.

It was a sur­prise but a wel­come one to see him back in the Top 10 and stay­ing! Wow! Go­gogo!!!

8. (+4) Fi­nalul­tima (Fi­nalul­tima) - ee65607:

While they showed up a day be­fore the rank­ings they got into the Top 20 in “real” Dis­cord con­ver­sa­tions (after some month of talk­ing with the tau bot!) activ­ity is still al­most neg­li­gible but happy to have them and look­ing for­ward to see­ing more!

Of course 8 and 13 are not even ee100 apart but very im­press­ive to be even that close so fast to end up on the top of the close pack! After see­ing their dis­tri­bu­tion I have no doubt it is fully de­served!

9. (+8) some gib­ber­ish I won’t even try type­writ­ing[name may change any second] (nubest) - ee65600:

She has been a long time mem­ber of this server, with quite a lot of mes­sages a name to know. Maybe not the founder but ex­cess­ive user of a rather un­usual kind of text emoji: ouo and vari­ations of it. She also likes to call hax and people bad which seems to cor­rel­ate with her or­tho­graphic skills.

Un­for­tu­nately life came in the way and be­sides a pause on the server her lead­er­board place­ment was suf­fer­ing for it. For­tu­nately she is now back! And what a state­ment to get back into the Top 10!

10. TRE­DEC42 (XLII) - ee65599:

I don’t even know where to start but he’s do­ing amaz­ing in­game and out of the game! Rising more and more thanks to his CT prowess, ori­ginal the­ory push­ing, the newly reached in­sane 1e9 stars and lots of push­ing. To add to that he’s a minigame re­cord hunter, sim pro­gram­mer, CT bal­an­cer, helper and very act­ive on the server!

Really happy to see him enter the Top 10 for a rank­ing and not only for a short time! Go ahead and rise some more!

11. (-4) GrimJu­ni­per­55831 (wind) - ee65556:

The le­gend and long-time #1 from a while back, whose pres­ence here is sadly go­ing to come to an end…

Un­for­tu­nately he has stopped play­ing. That he has­n’t fallen lower is test­a­ment to his pre­vi­ous amaz­ing play. What is left now is to see him drop slowly and see it as a bench­mark how long it will take to leave the Top 20.

You’ll be missed!

12. (-3) har­u­maki200 (har­u­maki) - ee65543:

So far with the low­est amount of Dis­cord mes­sages but at least still here^^ Cus­tom the­or­ies re­quired some posts but that was it some­what sadly.

Activ­ity on the server is no where equi­val­ent to activ­ity in­game and this holds true here very well.

Hov­er­ing around the Top 10, they still kept their spot and it will once again be an in­ter­est­ing month to see if they will keep up the pace. This month it is out of the Top 10 but every­body is so close it is hard to call who will emerge vic­tori­ous. Never write them off!

13. (-2) Reck­on­Crew (Reck­on­Crew) - ee65532:

They have all their mes­sages on the server from a single day about 18 months ago, which is an achieve­ment in it­self I guess^^

Not much else to say ex­cept they are pretty stable, mainly gain­ing a place now and then (and some­times los­ing one). I do like stable play­ers for this rank­ing^^

He did give me some work by switch­ing places but at least he re­mains mainly in the same rank­ings group^^

14. (+1) SnaekySnacks (SnaekySnacks) - ee65475:

Had a hard time not to think of sneaky but okay^^ Maybe the most act­ive per­son on the server [cita­tion needed]. Also known for his con­tri­bu­tions to the guide and an­swer­ing ques­tions seem­ingly every­where and everytime^^ Due to his work he’s been less act­ive lately (which seems still pretty act­ive to me). You’re do­ing a great job though! Same goes for his own cus­tom the­ory idea (EF) which got im­ple­men­ted with the help of pea­nut and XLII.

Des­pite all this dis­trac­tions he’s still con­sist­ently in the rank­ings!

15. (-2) spqcey (ran­dom­name) - ee65473:

No idea what the name means but not that ran­dom of a per­son^^ We have an­other minigame mas­ter with a very im­press­ive 2.55e8 minigame stars. Not only that but he’s also pretty act­ive in the realm of col­lect­ing data in sheets like the the­ory strats or (sadly in­act­ive for now) the tau graph­ing sheet and the sheet. He’s pretty act­ive on the Dis­cord server and a very im­press­ive cus­tom the­ory mas­ter.

When Top 10?

16. colinc719 (?) - ee65432:

They were maybe the biggest sur­prise when en­ter­ing the rank­ings, shoot­ing up from some­where I can­not even re­mem­ber dir­ectly into the Top 20. Sta­bil­ized, so the ques­tion is what will come next. We can­not even know more about them be­cause it looks like they are still not on the server. Maybe the fu­ture will give us more (so far not).

17. (+1) Up­Artz (?) - ee65368:

Seems to be act­ive on Red­dit but not here, though this is un­clear.

They were already out and are of­ten on the edge but be­cause of that I’m even more im­pressed by their fight­ing spirit, look­ing for­ward to the next month! Still here, check­ing in next time^^

18. (-4) Rem­m­oire (Keynez) - ee65201:

His name has been de­duced from the us­age of the !tau com­mand though they have yet to talk to oth­ers than the tau bot since April 2021. Nev­er­the­less they’re cer­tainly a con­stant on the top of the lead­er­board.

Drop­ping hard but he’s a vet­eran, so too early to write him off. See­ing that he’s not changed at all it is wor­ry­ing though. Will he be an­other player to van­ish?

19. ad­equateryan (ad­equate ryan) - ee65200:

entered a few month ago. But who do we wel­come into our ranks? I have no idea as they are seem­ingly on the server but with a whoop­ing 0 mes­sages so far. While I al­ways feel a bit of sad­ness see­ing vet­eran play­ers fall, I do like new play­ers com­ing in, show­ing all is fluid and you can catch up.

Now I won­der if they’ll stay or even rise or maybe even more sur­pris­ingly start to talk on the server!

20. Juan­nTitor (JuanT­itor) - ee65000:

On the server it looks like a lot of bot com­mands lately but from time to time he pops up for some other com­ment.

For quite a while he’s fight­ing really hard for his place in the rank­ing and has been out and back again. His comebacks must be a re­cord, right?

This month he stayed and if only barely.

Some enter the list and so some have to leave the list as well. Here are our fallen fel­lows from this month:

No one is here, that is a sur­prise!

1. (on iOS) Phask (Phask) - ee65280 :

Long­time leader on the iOS lead­er­board and ac­tu­ally in the Top 20 over­all if com­bined. For quite some time it looked like he ac­tu­ally might be pretty close to the Top 10 on An­droid but lately he fell pretty hard, now be­ing at about #18, which means he caught him­self. He’s also on the server, though his act­ive times are some months ago. Also known as the cre­ator of the first Tau data col­lec­tion sheet.

He was con­sist­ently close to the over­all Top 10 but new CTs have seen him drop. It will be in­ter­est­ing if he can come back at some point, would be sad to see iOS drift­ing fur­ther away (the next con­tender neasi_cz would be “just” #22 on An­droid, so not even that far of any­more).

And in the end it is of course time for the “real” hon­our­able men­tion (please nom­in­ate someone with a reason for fu­ture in­clu­sion of play­ers if you have some­body in mind) as Phask is tech­nic­ally in the Top 20 rank­ings:

??. NerdyLun­atic (nam­wen) - ~ee55000+:

Time for some his­tory! Never done such an entry for a per­son no longer act­ive but he cer­tainly de­serves it. Nerdy was the per­son to take over #1 from An­tharion and was one act­ive player back in his time. He reached the ee55000 cap first and then ac­tu­ally re­tired will­ingly as #1 be­cause he de­cided he be­came to ob­sessed with the game. He has been “back” for a short mo­ment to check up on some de­vel­op­ments but do­ing not much more like a day or two of chat­ting on the server.

He was not only act­ive in­game but also on the server with thou­sands of mes­sages and do­ing a lot of help­ing and dis­cuss­ing. It was a great time and it was sad to see him stop but you have to re­spect his de­term­in­a­tion to fol­low through and stay true to him­self.

Un­for­tu­nately after such a long time it gets hard to re­mem­ber much de­tails , so I’ll end on a nice quote by him: “T5 is a massively un­der­rated the­ory”

As it turned out to be quite the un­der­tak­ing to write this month edi­tion (as al­ways, might need to overthink the format?), we had some changes. Luck­ily for me none of them was enough to change any ranks (at least on my lead­er­board).