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KerrAvon
@kerravon

@harleym I really think you must have made some incorrect assumptions if you believe there can be any benefit from players having ghosts on their leaderboard.

When you join a leaderboard, other players can still continue to be added to the leaderboard – until it fills up with 15 legitimate players. If, after a certain period of time, the leaderboard has not been filled, then the empty slots are filled by the so-called ghosts.

The ghost can either have no effect – if the ghosted player does not play and gains zero or a few points. If the ghosted player gains enough points to move above the bottom three positions of the leaderboard, then they will be pushing legitimate players on the leaderboard down. That’s a negative effect no matter how high or low on the leaderboard they climb.

If the ghosts were not added to the leaderboard, and the leaderboard only had 6 players, then so be it. So long as they play, the 6 players will be fighting it out for the top six positions and no-one will be demoted. As soon as you add a ghosted player, you are going to affect the top 6 players.

Players whose “ghosts” achieve a high position on the leaderboard do not gain anything. These ghosts only occupy positions on leaderboard that legitimate players should occupy.