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This is nice the only issue I have is, what purpose does the "top LS" serve right now?

For example on Lakshmi the top LS is SnD, they're determined top because they have the highest points from people who have bothered to register their characters and link them to community. Now if you go and look at all their characters you'll see a funny pattern. Majority have Maat Cap and have all 75's. This is because this LS do AF/Summon Burning pretty much 24/7 (please don't think I'm arguing that method is wrong, i like that they do it and others), but because of this quick and easy way to get to 75 they gain lots and lots of points. Would something like 20 accounts having full 75 on every job through a quick cheap trick count as making them the top LS's?

Put it this way, most people will see the top LS's as "the best, the skilled" whatever, unless obviously you know the reputation and ls members well you can judge for yourself, but if for example IRL you was competing in a 400meter run, Who would be determined the "the best, the skilled", this would be the winner. Now if the winner took drugs, would they still be "the best, the skilled?" they got the quickest time, they're at the top of the charts, but they used the quick/easy way to get there, no different than what Summon Burn is causing the LS's to look like on our server. They're only high -purely because- of this.

So to summarize all that up, I would consider rethinking how "Top LS's" are judged and/or calculated. Because doing it by the peoples score isn't always printing the right label.

But of course this is my 2 cents in, I'm not here to say "You better do it!" haha, just want people to be aware that most of the people who are high ranked are through summon burning. I've even fallen down that road myself and doing it to finish my Mcap =D