Been busy and a guild mate posted by chance. Here you go @Eika
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holy shit, why secure 1st position by 500k+ points? Like tons of gems was not wasted beforeā¦!?
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Ignorance is bliss 
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I believe these that always top those event leaderboards is VIP20, rich and is addicted to GoWā¦
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I agree. I could never sit and play that long. No thanks. No point. Carry on.
To each their own. 
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Yeah, each to their own 
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Having a huge lead discourages people from trying to catch up. If the lead were say 200k, 2nd or 3rd people might buy a few more tiers and drag the race even longer
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Right, we are talking about 500k pts here mate.
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It is over a 600k lead
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Assuming you buy 1 tier 7 for 200 gems and get 3 valravens, thats 16x4800=76800 pts. 500k pts is only 6.5 purchases, or 1.3k gems. Thats not a lot if you want to chase power orb
Mate, we are talking about wasting resources by having 700k more points than 2nd or 3rd here. Because most probably it will be a lot of gems wasted, as they would possibly have managed it with 100-200k lead in the end, anyway. These are players that spend all their lives into this game, so I doubt they willl take away their eyes from the leaderboard for too long under the event. But as we said before, each to their own.
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A leaderboard chase is, by definition, wasting resources.
Think of it like an auction, where your ābidā is really the gems you spend to obtain sigils from shop tiers. On the auction block: the leaderboard rewards. There are those who say no one āwinsā an auction. Why?
The price of an object is subjective. People donāt want to spend more than an object is worth than them. So if you assume the people who would buy a thing are bidding, then the point where the 99% stop bidding is āwhat people will buy it forā. That leaves one person, the winner, having paid āmore than it is worthā. If he wins, then turns around and tries to sell it at a profit, heāll get zero bids: the only interested buyers just turned down a lower price. So he has to sit on it and wait for desire to meet his investment.
Thatās what we have here. Losers 2-5 reckon an orb of power isnāt worth the extra effort to reach even 800,000 points. But Loser 1 is so zealous with greed heās willing to double the effort.
You know what else he couldāve done? Won by 10%-15%, then used the gems he saved in the next event to hit the next loserboard. But he didnāt. He wanted to show off today. So heās going to (probably) get the gameās most expensive power orb in history. Yay.
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Its 200 gems for Tier 7 in Bounty, meaning for most players, the actual cost is time spent on matches instead of gem cost.
So keeping a lead of 100-200k is really not a reason to back down, since one can easily just do a Tier 7 to catch up for minimal cost.
Somewhere in the 1 million range is around 3k gems spent, which is chump change compared to trying to win Raid/Invasion.
500k lead does 2 things:
- Buy time to rest if some decides to chase.
- Tells someone even if you invest time and gems to chase me, thatās just the beginning of the fight. Unless youāre really dedicated to winning, chasing 500k down isnāt the smartest idea, especially in a 3 day event.
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I would downvote this post in a heart beat. Congrats on being insulting to players you donāt even know and congrats on not knowing a single thing youāre talking about when it comes to these leaderboards.
You canāt win most of these boards by 10-15% unless you think the opponent has no reason to chase, which is very rarely the case if theyāve invested resources in the race in the first place.
Who do you think you are to determine what people find value in? If somebody finds comfort in going for the leaderboard and earning the reward they get, so be it. As you said, the price of an object is subjective. So what you consider is āwasting resourcesā can be a fair value to others, especially the power orb for the purpose of crafting ZuulāGoth.
Who cares how someone spends their gems. Its his or her choice.
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I donāt āpersonallyā see the value in chasing leaderboards. However, that doesnāt mean that people that do chase them are losers.
Some people think itās a waste of time to play a match-3 game at all. Yet, Iām sure most of us would disagree. 
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Tier 7 gets you 10 sigils which equals 20 battles with valravens. 20x4800 is 96000. So basically 100k for every Tier 7.
I was underestimating and taking into accounts bad results (losing a battle or a valraven) to find the max amounts of gems needed to close the gap, which turns out to be not as high as many people think
I bet a lot of those who have posted above think the guy with huge lead has spent like 10k+ gems or something lmao. But actually heās spent less than 3k which is nothing to someone who has a huge stockpile of gems.
Going for power orb in bounty is actually really smart if you would go for Tier 6 (1000 gems) regardless for all rewards. May as well go for power orb for only an extra 1-2k gems on top of what you would spend anyway. Many would view 1-2k gems as a cheap power orb.
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An all bounty team would take forever and you would had lost the majority of matches as well as lost most of the Valravens at battle 20, which your math is based aroundā¦
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