More incentives in the Daily Challenge
Heliks
I'd like to see some more incentives than just bronze, silver and gold (and the for me unobtainable perferct score) in the Daily Challenge.
I find I lose some interest when I realise I am no longer able to reach 22500 and gold, which can happen in round 1 already. Some more levels would keep my interest peaked, if I knew I could reach them with some effort.
So, instead of the 22500 limit for gold, and whatever it is for silver, why not introduce some intermediary levels? It should be easy to understand, so keep the silver, but let 20000 be rewarded as "Silver with gold streaks" or something like that. 24000 could be Gold with rubies, or something exclusive. And instead of the bronze, that most people can get with their eyes closed, introduce something like this:
10 000 - Copper
12 500 - Brass
15 000 - Bronze
17 500 - Silver
20 000 - Electrum (silver and gold alloy)
21 000 - White Gold
22 000 - 18K Gold
23 000 - 24K Gold
24 000 - Platinum
24500 - Ruby
25 000 - Diamond
By all means, keep the old records, and introduce a new "medal cabinet", and let players choose which version they prefer. That way, you won't antagonize anyone who prefers the current system. You can recalculate retrospective the results for players who'd like to see what the finer grained results yields for them.
Joaking
I really like your idea. I totally agree that sometimes the motivation to finish a DC just disappears when you get absolutely shafted in the very first round and, no matter what you do afterwards, you’re already locked out of the gold medal. Getting 22,400 and ending up with the same medal as someone who scored 15,000 just doesn’t feel very fair.