Rank­ings & News Oc­to­ber 2024

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Oc­to­ber 2024 #

News #

Sea­sons is over! We’ve had some fights in sea­sons and an in­cred­ibly close race for 1st (and 7th), but the 2 month long gaunt­let has ended for all of us, and I think we are all glad it’s over, es­pe­cially our win­ner d4! Con­grat­u­la­tions d4 for win­ning the first sea­son and also con­grat­u­la­tions to our 2nd and 3rd places Py­thon’s Ko­ala and NGZ!

The next sea­son is pro­brably go­ing to hap­pen around Janu­ary 2025, so stay tuned and be ready, it could be your time for glory!

But it’s not just sea­sons, our top play­ers (spe­cific­ally Playspout, cause we have no data from the oth­ers) have reached 10k tau! We’re one step closer to eee5. Novem­ber maybe?

And fi­nally, Black­seal is now the first per­son to have got­ton 800 T3. Con­grats Black­seal

Ob­lig­at­ory plea for feed­back: If any­one has ideas, please let me (and/​or the guide team) know. If you have cri­ti­cism do it as well. If you don’t want to end up in any news/​rank­ings out­side the server, then con­tact me so I could either ex­clude or an­onymise you.

Rank­ings #

Al­right, these lead­er­boards are chan­ging faster then ever, and this month is no ex­cep­tion. Still volat­ile from the CT buff, po­s­i­tions are chan­ging every­where

Oc­to­ber 2024 Top 20 on the lead­er­board, their \(F(t)\) at the time the list was com­piled and their Dis­cord con­nec­tion (Dis­cord names in brack­ets are not their nick­names!), data col­lec­ted Novem­ber 1st:

1. (+1) birrel69 (birrel) - ee98710:

The rival of d4N­f6Bg5 (or rather the in­vol­un­tary rival). While at first fall­ing be­hind, he has long made his move and passed him for a rising spot in the rank­ings.

He popped up on the server to an­nounce his entry into the Top 20, only to be over­taken again be­fore the rank­ings was made. For now he’s safely in util­iz­ing the same strat of hav­ing 2 saves.

Some­times he shows up and ex­changes some words with his rival, stay­ing com­mit­ted to the strategy of not shar­ing in­form­a­tion, in­stead pre­fer­ring to use what we find to bet­ter climb. Well, its not like any­thing is forced and in the end it de­pends on how you play your save, so on you go! It’s been 9 months since the last up­date, and still, he re­fuses to di­vulge any­thing. His strategies seems to be work­ing though, be­cause he is on fire

After be­ing on the edge of the Top 10, he has turned on over­drive. Scary stuff, with no end in sight so far. He hit num­ber one for a while but has fallen to num­ber 2. Still go­ing strong, will he ever run out of steam? No, he wont as Fi­nal falls and Birrel is there to claim top spot at some point we gotta take him down from the lead­er­board cause this guy it was to hax

2. (+1) HeadedArt26 (Playspout) - ee98493:

If you ever looked at the re­cord sheet you should know him be­cause he’s lit­er­ally on top every­where there (well, ex­cept ap­par­ently 78/​8 of the ori­ginal the­or­ies on main save).

Also pretty act­ive here on the server, 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.

Hav­ing fallen down to 3rd place, the ques­tion re­mains, will he be able to re­claim his former glory? The an­swer may again be yes, as he rises up to 2nd

3. (-2) Fi­nalul­tima (Fi­nalul­tima) - ee98344:

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!

Amaz­ing fast pro­gress and now the gap to close is pretty big he has more than closed the gap! An ab­so­lutely in­cred­ible feat mak­ing it all the way up here, even if you have fallen a little.

He seems quite ce­men­ted here, but you can never dis­count the com­pet­i­tion here in the top 20. - Eyland­ing, 1 month ago

And that proves to be very true as he is knocked down to 3rd. Can he make a comeback?

4. (+0) Vin­tage­Sur­fer­56606 (kinger55) - ee97576:

He has dis­covered the main reason to be on the server: the tau bot^^ Well, that joke lost its mean­ing a lot of months ago but it is hard to let go^^

Else he’s not really par­ti­cip­at­ing (no more tau up­dates it seems…) but he’s a force on the lead­er­board for sure. He cer­tainly figured out CTs and firmly planted him­self near the top

He’s still dis­tanced him­self from the rest of the com­pet­i­tion, and run­ning up against Play, it looks like the en­tire lead­erbaord has fallen 2 places. Can he do the same for Play?

Well, it looks like he’s is pulling away, and Kinger might have to move on to oth­ers. Fi­nal, watch out!

5. (+1) Ei­jaRisen (?) - ee97209:

This new entry is not stop­ping!

I’ve never heard of them be­fore, but clearly they had some good CTs to shoot this far up. They seem to be on a steady rise, where they’ll go next, who knows?

But wherever it is, it’s up, as they rise to top 5!

6. (+1) Ab­soP­er­fKOR (?) - ee97200:

This time I can only say that they hovered near the Top 20 for a long time. Act­ive play with lots of pushes seems to fi­nally be the re­cipe for pro­gress.

They rose up 11 ranks, more un­known play­ers tak­ing to the top. Will they stop? Will they keep rising? Well, they’ve de­cided they’re gonna keep rising, so we’ll see if they can keep it go­ing

There is no server pres­ence, so noth­ing more to say so far.

7. (+4) Reck­on­Crew (Reck­on­Crew) - ee97043:

They have all their mes­sages on the server from a single day about 43 months ago, which is an achieve­ment in it­self I guess^^

Ac­tu­ally can­not find them any­more, maybe be­cause of the Dis­cord name up­date? Or maybe be­cause Dis­cord some­times does­n’t want to ac­tu­ally search.

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^^

Well, he may have been los­ing more then gain­ing last moth, but he’s back at it, up 4 places and into top 10!

8. (-3) In­tel­lec­tu­al­Power­112 (NG­Z001) - ee96800:

Over a year ago he already had an hon­our­able men­tion. Afuro wrote:

Let’s hope at some point in the fu­ture he can enter the rank­ings to join his friends on the lead­er­board (XLII already showed the way^^)!

He was far be­hind but with his activ­ity and pas­sion we wer­en’t sur­prised to fi­nally see him enter the Top 20!

Back then he star­ted to ap­pear a bit more in the server and es­pe­cially for cus­tom the­or­ies. He cer­tainly con­tin­ued this trend.

Very im­press­ive minigamer, second to prob­ably none, hav­ing passed 1 bil­lion minigame stars by a fair mar­gin.

Equally im­press­ive in cus­tom the­or­ies, second only to Playspout and not by much.

Here is one player I’ve seen rise more and more, with the Top 10 only the be­gin­ning! He’s still on the climb, faster than ever, briefly mak­ing it all the way to top 5. The bubble is start­ing to pop though as he slides down to 8th

9. (+5) Melv0r (Melv0r) - ee96780:

I have a vague feel­ing he should’ve been already in a month be­fore I in­cluded him, con­sid­er­ing my notes on f(t) but hey, he’s here now!

It has been a while since he was seen on the server, with mes­sages dat­ing back to 2021 mak­ing him an old vet­eran but still be­low a hun­dred mes­sages. But what mat­ters for this rank­ing is not activ­ity in the server (though still nice) but activ­ity in the game. And there he fought his way up and up un­til he got into this pres­ti­gi­ous list.

Can e hold his place? Well, he’s do­ing a lot bet­ter then that! Rising up by 5 he has entered the top 10! Wel­come, and con­grat­u­la­tions

10. (not very new - up­dated) some gib­ber­ish I won’t even try type­writ­ing[name may change any second] no1­kno­wise­cretly­enter {changed} (nubest) - ee96587:

Did you think she was out? Cause you thought wrong. Up­dated and back into top 10, her idle strategies are more def­in­itely work­ing!

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!

Po­ten­tially her com­pet­it­ors are too act­ive now, though she is still pretty high up. Maybe its the cat emo­jis^^ Or the elab­or­ate strategies which are surely not act­ive be­cause nub only idles, sure.

11. (-3) colinc719 (?) - ee96508:

They were maybe the biggest sur­prise when en­ter­ing the rank­ings, shoot­ing up from some­where I can­not even re­mem­ber dir­ectly into the Top 20 and never look­ing back. 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).

For now they just entered Top 10 after first dis­ap­pear­ing for a bit from the lead­er­boards com­pletely and made clear Top 10 was just a step on the way.

Just mak­ing it in­between last news, It felt like it is only a mat­ter of time be­fore Top 3 is their spot, but the on­slaught of play­ers was too much. Just goes to show how strong the com­pet­i­tion is!

And sadly the com­pet­i­tion has knocked him from top 10 this month.

12. (new - up­dated) Gen­Er­a­tion­Na­tion (Gen) - ee96389:

Nubs not the only one whos still on the lead­er­board, this Jug­ger­naut is not one to count out so eas­ily! He’s still here and still fight­ing, even if he fell out of top 10

With a heavy heart I have to re­port that the Jug­ger­naut has slowed down and maybe no longer is the Jug­ger­naut. Still pretty strong though^^

Maybe not at the ab­so­lute top for CTs (though I think in terms of ef­fi­ciency he ac­tu­ally is or at least very close) and maybe suffered a bit in ori­gin­als but still go­ing strong enough with ac­cel (the mad­man^^) to have more f(t) than one would ex­pect.

It is still so weird to see him lower but to be fair: rank­ings have al­ways changed over time. I won­der where he’ll settle down…

13. (-4) It­s­Not­Me109 (?) - 96374:

Was the 2nd new per­son on this rank­ing in the top 10. Now, fallen out. Where they will end up next. Nobody knows.

Again, no dis­cord pres­ence, so not much to say. Al­though It looks like he has a trick up his sleeve

(tech­nic­ally 14.) (new) it­s­not­me108 (?) - ee96186:

Hmm, I won­der who this per­son it. I won­der, is it It­s­Not­Me109 do­ing a little save scum­ming?

Re­gard­less, it’s not ex­actly fair to every­one to have one per­son count twice, so I’m mov­ing every­one up one place, for the real top 20

14. (new) Al­bere­in­stein3456789 - ee96049:

3000 f(t) in one month? That’s gotta be some kind of re­cord. Shoot­ing up from be­low 30th, he’s ce­men­ted him­self right into 14th

Some do ques­tion is he’s a cheater, but I shall give the be­ne­fit of the doubt, though we shall watch him closely. If this is you, come over and share your stats, so we can know your place without a doubt!

15. (+0) d4N­f6Bg5 (d4N­f6Bg5) - ee96012.8:

He’s been on the server and the rank­ings hunt for a while. A long while ac­tu­ally. Ac­cord­ing to him surely every day he was­n’t in the Top 20 too long.

If you know chess nota­tion you can de­duce from his name he’s a chess player (you can go as far as al­low him his self-pro­claimed ex­pert status given his 2500+ lichess rat­ing^^). As I’m something of a chess player my­self I already like that^^

Be­ing driven by his de­sire to fi­nally reach the rank­ings but hindered by com­pet­i­tion, long times for small gains and not much de­sire to ac­tu­ally cash in on the act­ives, he de­cided to do a first here at the top (at least as far as we know): he split his saves. One of them is go­ing for the long haul and the other - this one - got the the­ory auto­mator run­ning 24/​7 for the short-term gain.

After a looong time he has man­aged to com­bine two things: over­tak­ing birrel and do­ing it while en­ter­ing the Top 10. Con­grat­u­la­tions!

Not just con­tent with main lead­erbaords, he is prov­ing to the a force to be reckoned with in sea­sons. He took an early lead and won the whole event! d4, clearly not a player to be reckoned with. But there’s no such thing as a free lunch, on his main save, his act­ives are lag­ging be­hind, and his rank­ings are tak­ing the hit. Birrel has turned to other things, can d4 keep up this playstyle?

Well, seaons are over, so d4 can turn his sea­son en­ergy to the “real” lead­er­board (not to say seaonss aren’t real!), and get ready to rise some ranks (or more likely sleep)

He’s stayed stable though sea­sons, an acom­plish­ment in and of it­self. Now let’s see if he can rise

16. (+0) drag­me­ho­menow (?) - ee94630:

Our fifth new player has de­cided he likes top 20, and has settled down at 16th, though with lead­er­boards this wild, who knows where they’ll end up

17. (-7) Up­Artz (?) - ee95932:

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

They were already out of the Top 20 and were of­ten on the edge but be­cause of that I’m even more im­pressed by their fight­ing spirit, see­ing the gap clos­ing to ac­tu­ally en­ter­ing the single di­gits! Ap­plause for reach­ing the Top 10!

And it seems they are here to stay. Dis­pite the en­tire lead­er­board mov­ing around them, they stayed con­stant in Top 10 (thank god). Looks like this player is here to stay.

Oh, oh no. Looks like my pre­dic­tions were wrong (who would’ve thought!)

18. (+2) Hu­mong­ous­Troll273 (?) - ee95721:

Just brely scrap­ing into 20 top last month, he rises to 18th

19. (-6) xtevenx3 (Xteven) - ee95649:

Wel­come! And fi­nally someone on this dis­cord for once. It’s look­ing like his self de­scribed playstyle of full idle might be hurt­ing him. Or it was sea­sons, of which he was also a com­pet­itor. Fallen down to 19th but not out yet, with sea­sons over, Xteven is­n’t quite out yet!

20. (new) SnaekySnacks (SnaekySnacks) - ee95641:

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.

Sadly, Snaeky has been out of the rank­ings for a while, fall­ing back in 2023. When he fell, Afuro wrote: “And with other things hap­pen­ing, he fi­nally fell out… No worry, you’re still on of the greats and maybe he’ll be back!”, and it looks like he was right! Wel­come back to top 20 Snaeky, we’ve missed you!

With so many new play­ers en­ter­ing the list, some have to leave the list as well. Here are our fallen fel­lows from this month. Num­ber still bumped up by one. It’s not the bot­toms of the lb dropoff i ex­pec­ted, some big­ger changes then that (greedy push­ing catch­ing up to them?):

22. (-10) Hep­haistôs (?) - ee95554:

Good­bye new player num­ber 3.

Maybe, They’re destined to lurk down be­low the rank­ings after all. But 22 is not out for the count.

21. (-4) Ara­mak­iSH (?) - ee95626:

An­other mys­tery per­son. I knew they were already some­what close be­fore stop­ping to up­date f(t) for over 2 months. I guess this is also a way to re­appear!

Out­side of this I have no idea about them at all. Maybe they’ll show up some­where (or some­body else knows more). For now it’s just ad­mir­ing the rise and see if it will be a fu­ture prob­lem to write about^^

The fu­ture is here but not like I have any­thing to add… they’ve fall­ing to 17th and then off the lead­er­board. Maybe they’ll up­date again soom

30. (-12) Iks2024 (?) - ee94666:

This is where I ex­pect to see new play­ers lol. Wel­come to top 20, and good­bye.

23. (-4) hot­ab1 (hotab) - ee95431:

I have a vague feel­ing he should­n’t have been in when I first in­cluded him but well, now he’s in for sure.

Right now he’s the one player lis­ted on all 8 main save the­or­ies on the re­cord sheet (wow).

I’ll be in­ter­ested to see if he can keep up the pace or if push­ing T6 will cost him at some point. Note: al­ways push the­or­ies. Wait, that seems pretty ob­vi­ous.

Is he able to keep it up? He’s slip­ping and he fell, but he might be back soon (fore­shad­ow­ing?)

With so many new play­ers en­ter­ing the list, some have to leave the list as well. Here are our fallen fel­lows from this month:

An hon­our­able men­tion goes to #

1. (on iOS) neasi_cz (neasi) - ee97832:

A not that new face any­more on the top of the iOS lead­er­board! Hav­ing over­taken Phask and fi­nally get­ting to rank 1 after a long hunt, he’s fast in­creased his lead.

He is not that act­ive on the server but not un­known either. Maybe we’ll see him more in the fu­ture?

It might be pos­sible we have in him some­body who is ready to chal­lenge the es­tab­lished over­all Top 10 hold by An­droid play­ers, though it is still to early to say that. Well, he man­aged to do it, and would be #4 in the an­doid lb. Con­grats on reach­ing top 10! (and rep­res­ent­ing iOS play­ers).

I have to say: I’m root­ing for him!

2. (on iOS) Bobbly­ben (bobbly­ben) - ee95940:

We’ve seens him be­fore, but we just about char­ac­ter­ised him as le­git enough to be on this lead­er­board. A suf­ferer of the 16x CT glitch, it could be ar­gued that his save is in­valid, but it has been fixed, and it’s not lie he could’ve pre­ven­ted it any­way.

If you want to ig­nore him, you can, but at least in my opin­ion he de­serves this spot in the top 20. Wel­come Bobbly­ben to the top of iOS

3. (on iOS) アケローン川に住む入道坊主 (?) - ee95641

There is­n’t much I can say ex­cept he has been play­ing catch-up since quite a while un­til fi­nally get­ting on here.

Afuros glor­i­ous Ja­pan­ese skills were enough to read the first part as “Acheron river”. Seems the rest means a (young?) monk liv­ing there, ac­cord­ing to his re­search.

Or I could wait for someone to provide a bet­ter trans­la­tion: Nyūdō monk who lives on the Acheron River (no guar­an­tee for be­ing right).

First time we’ve seen 3 iOS play­ers here!

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 the iOS play­ers are tech­nic­ally in the Top 20 rank­ings (or rep­res­ent the top of the iOS lead­er­board):

Oh no, I could­n’t find an hon­our­able men­tion this month. For the sake of the news com­ing out like at all, I guess we’ll have to skip it :xexf: