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8 hours ago, Jimmy said:

Details on the new prizes:

• 10 randomly chosen contributors with at least 5 Work Units complete (outside the top 10) each month will receive 500 Reward Merits and a permanent costume power of their choice
• 10 randomly-chosen contributors with at least 1 Work Unit complete (outside the top 10) each month will receive 500 Reward Merits and a permanent costume power of their choice

The above have replaced the 10 x 500 Merits random draws.

 

Some stats from the first few days:

• Nearly 300 contributors have joined the team
• Over 100 million points have been earned with over 4,500 Work Units completed
• We're already in the top 1,000 teams for the entire month of March
• More stats here

This is a lot more in the spirit of it all as an incentive.

 

I'm not trying to say that beefy machines shouldn't be able to win or anything, just that in my experience the community still run on a lot of older hardware - this way seems a lot more encouraging. Nice work.

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6 hours ago, Nex said:

Uhm, main-goal of this is to find a cure for Corona. The rewards and stuff are a giveaway.

Then don't have rewards and a leaderboard? I dunno, sure looks like a competition is being held about contributing. 🙄

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Not entirely in the spirit of it I guess. But as for being in on it beforehand, that only really matters for this month, no? Monthly leaderboard and all.

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So basically whoever has the most powerful machine is the only one who gets the costume power each month?