CT are run­ning really out of steam… or not?! There is some news and es­pe­cially the bright pro­spect of new CTs be­ing made and get­ting more and more ready to be ac­tu­ally tested and in­cluded!

• NGZ joined XLII in the feat of reach­ing 1100000000 stars. I only say achieve­ment 34^^
• NGZ ad­di­tion­ally man­aged to pass e300 for EF on his main save which means stonks for him!
• The amount of play­ers reach­ing cer­tain mile­stones is also im­press­ive: 3 with ee66000+, already 18 (+1 iOS) with ee65000+, 140 play­ers who broke ee60000 and over 1000 play­ers who reached ee50000 !
• Look­ing at the (ad­mit­tedly short) delay I won­der when I either have to miss a month or have one shorter “month” to get back on track. I take bets^^ Time is run­ning out slowly…
• Already praised the guide people last month but have to hap­pily do it again be­cause we now have a cus­tom the­ory sec­tion! Thanks to all of you!
• No news but please send me news if I don’t catch them (and force me to say I wrote them down)^^
• Out of news be­cause I did­n’t write any­thing down and now it is late, so in other news: time for the rank­ings!

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

Septem­ber­2022 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) - ee66773:

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 to keep a large enough lead to be sure he won’t yield the top spot for a while. Com­pet­i­tion is com­ing though!

2. (+1) Eld­rail (AfuroZamurai) - ee66247:

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.

Push­ing EF to get all e100+ CTs and id­ling around was enough to get my one time rank­ing #2 as Playspout has chosen not to show his true power. I’ll take it, earlier than I had ex­pec­ted last month^^

3. (-1) HeadedArt26 (Playspout) - ee66000:

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. Of­ten he hides his true max for ex­ample this time where he has­n’t up­dated the whole month since the last rank­ing! The second per­son to get 66k he’s surely set­ting his eye on Gen. When will we see him get­ting close enough for an at­tempt? Hid­ing his in­dic­ates he might aim for a sneak at­tack, so we’ll see!

4. (+1) Vin­tage­Sur­fer­56606 (kinger55) - ee65980:

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 though!

5. (+1) Black­Seal94 (Black­Seal) - ee65920:

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. (+1) Adam­H99 (nemesis) - ee65850:

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.

7. (-3) 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!

8. An­thari­on1988 (An­tharion) - ee65517:

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!!!

9. har­u­maki200 (har­u­maki) - ee65437:

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.

10. (+2) TRE­DEC42 (XLII) - ee65347:

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. Reck­on­Crew (Reck­on­Crew) - ee65329:

They have all their mes­sages on the server from a single day about 17 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. I do like stable play­ers for this rank­ing^^

He did give me some work by switch­ing places but this month he’s back to be­ing nice and stead­fast.

12. (+3) Fi­nalul­tima (Fi­nalul­tima) - ee65273:

A new­comer who has con­sol­id­ated, nice to see! 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!

Show­ing some im­press­ive spirit to rise even more so quickly!

13. spqcey (ran­dom­name) - ee65203:

No idea what the name means but not that ran­dom of a per­son^^ We have an­other minigame mas­ter with a very im­press­ive 1.55e8 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?

14. (-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.

15. (+1) SnaekySnacks (SnaekySnacks) - ee65170:

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!

16. (+2) colinc719 (?) - ee65094:

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).

They star­ted great by sneak­ing up past nubest dur­ing the writ­ing^^

17. (-3) some gib­ber­ish I won’t even try type­writ­ing[name may change any second] (nubest) - ee65091:

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. Pri­or­it­ies are right though! As the Idle Lord I ap­prove of the cur­rent more idle playstyle but wish her all the best! Happy to still see her on here!

18. (-1) Up­Artz (?) - ee65000:

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^^

19. ad­equateryan (ad­equate ryan) - ee64800:

Entered last month and stayed here this month. 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. (new) Juan­nTitor (JuanT­itor) - ee64712:

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. Now it is time to see if he can do it again be­cause while still close it was­n’t enough for this month rank­ings. And he’s done it! That must be a re­cord, right?

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

21. (-1) Fire­burn­er80 (Gull Dew­cat) - ee64601:

His in-game activ­ity seems to mir­ror his server activ­ity: prefer­ably idle. Already came back once, now he left the rank­ings again. Can he re­kindle the fire an­other time? While I’m mainly ob­ject­ive, I hope so be­cause it is al­ways nice to see some of the vet­er­ans from the earlier days show­ing it is pos­sible to get the spirit again and fight back!

1. (on iOS) Phask (Phask) - ee64888 :

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 #19. 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 (next con­tender would be “just” #24 on An­droid).

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:

??. Fn­Int (H₂Eaux) - ~ee60000+:

Can’t be­lieve I’ve ac­tu­ally never done an hon­our­able for him. Long over­due! Ac­tu­ally so long over­due he is­n’t even play­ing nor­mally on the lead­er­board any longer, so there goes some data out the win­dow. That comes when you fo­cus on too much other things, like im­ple­ment­ing an auto­mated minigame solver and then don’t want to use that for the lead­er­board.

What to say about him? Way too much! He’s a long time mod, cre­ator of the star cal­cu­lator, the Qual­ity of Life cus­tom the­ory, math genius (at least I think so be­cause he seem­ingly has some high qual­ity things to say to ba­sic­ally any­thing re­sem­bling math), trans­lator, beta tester and for some weird reason both evil and good.

For me he’s cer­tainly more good and I’m really happy he’s still hanging around des­pite kind of miss­ing out on the main thing^^

As it turned out to be quite the un­der­tak­ing to write this month edi­tion (as al­ways, might need to overthink the format?), we had ex­actly one change. That one was big enough though, see­ing colinc719 pass nubest.