Gee, so much controversy over the leaderboards. There doesn't seem to be a way to please everyone.

Why not just eliminate the publishing of the boards and have the users only rely on their stats when they upload?

Sure its nice to have 15 seconds of fame with your name in lights but why make the game so competitive when it should be enjoyable and fun.

i was hoping they could put an exception rule in there somehow

make it mandatory that more than 100 hours had to be played but less than 1000

that might move the top ppl off at somepoint, but it would give others a change to be on the board

actually, the ideal situation for me would be to have multiple leader boards

1) all time high tech points or food or whathave you

2) a limited board that has the play time exceptions

No matter what you designate as the premise before going on the leader board, someone, somewhere will always find a way to cheat to get around it.

There's just no way to keep all the cheaters off the boards. The Tech points or whatever set up would be violated just as easily as that one person with 50000010 elders. S/He would just edit the game file to fit in as they've already done. Warpers could probably be dealt with by limiting the time frame from date of release (which would drop off the person that's played for months, and definitely get the one that's played for 136 years off there). Unfortunately, the hacking cheaters are not dealt with quite so easily.

Like the number one player who has been playing for 35 years?
How do you play for 306619 w/o having any babies? You would think everyone would be dead by then.

Just a quick note to the moderators, Number 28 Dumba**es 254 517 4798724 51 12 26 , slightly offensive to a site that has younger players, perhaps having the names screened as well.

Yeah people have been pretty courteous up til now. Well even that offender (which I deleted) was not tooooo bad.

I deleted those top 3 cheaters too, although this manual deletion may not stick. We should give the server code some more improvements obviously.

We are about to hire another network coder who hopefully will be able to give these leaderboard issues the attention they deserve.

It is enjoyable and fun but why should the stats of obvious cheaters count? It takes away from those that have put the time and energy and love into their villages.If they want to cheat go for it but why post it? What did they gain by cheating except to be publicly seen as cheaters? How can they be proud to share their short comings like that?

It is annoying to work on a village and check your stats only to find out you are number 999 in the stats. I know it will never catch up there.

May I know how do I submit my score?

scores are automatically submitted when you hit refresh on the statistics screen