Decentral Games

[Posting on behalf of @spewystewie]

Proposal

Remove Weekly and Monthly SNG Leaderboards and associated prizes, but redistribute the same USD value in prizes to Daily Leaderboards. Specifically, have two daily leaderboards that pay out as follows:

$80/day in $DG to 3 - 9 SHINE segment

1st: $26 2nd: $18 3rd: $12 4th: $9 5th: $7 6th: $5 7th: $3

$250/day in $DG to 15 - 99 SHINE segment

1st: $80 2nd: $50 3rd: $35 4th: $25 5th: $22 6th: $20 7th: $18

Rationale (per spewystewie)

The current leaderboard system only rewards a small fraction of the player pool - those who are able to dedicate many hours to playing every single day. To address this, we should get rid of monthly and weekly leaderboards and instead switching solely to daily leaderboards with more places being rewarded.

This change would very likely motivate recreationals and non-24/7 regulars to pull off a daily grind here and there, as they will have a much higher chance of winning enticing prizes -> Big increase in traffic from this massive part of the playerpool (I’d guess 80-90% of the PP is in this category).

24/7 regulars will likely keep grinding anyway (most of them wouldn’t make any money at all on other sites in normal raked environments, so they are kind of forced to stay here) -> Little to no traffic lost there. The best regulars will earn more money. Even if they get slightly less rewards from the LBs, higher traffic makes up for it -> No traffic lost either.