I recently started a new account on the Xtreme server as my last one there was Deleted(I have not played Xtreme in a long time actively). I noticed that we have a lot of players joining constantly, but here's where I find a flaw with the Top Climbers of the week.

If say a player joins at the beginning of the week and makes very great progress and grows quickly, He can be overshadowed by players who joins later in the week and grow only slightly. The way the current award is given is by how many ranks the player attains and not how much they actually Grow in strength and knowledge. Currently there is a player who has 300 points this week in the top climber who is in second after a player who only gained 13 points this week...

As you can see the "Award" in this current state holds no merit and is more of a joke than an actual achievement to obtain. I'm not sure exactly How we can come up with a solution as going by "point values" would be worthless as top players could upgrade their mines once and gain more points than a beginning player.

The Only solution i have thought up so far would be a system that can see which players joined in the current week and how many points they have gained, With this solution it does solve the issue stated above but might be hard for the Admins to implement, So this being my only current solution I would like to open this up to a brainstorm in the community for different possible solutions to solve this problem if the Admins deem this one as"un-doable" ..

Please any thoughts or concerns mention below( No this is a waste of time please, small improvements in the game are still improvements and should not be overlooked as worthless)

Well all you have to do is have players who start that week, compete for the most points by the end of that week. It is top climber right? The only way to climb the ranks is to have higher points.

DO away with climbers of the week above a certain level, ie. 100k points. Do away completely with attackers of the week and raiders of the week. With a certain cheating alliance in Standard massaging the figures a while ago, it would negate all their work. You know when you have done well personally. You have a lot more res to spend!

maybe do a count that includes simple math on the player total count?
where:
WG = weekly growth
TPL = Total point level
WA = weekly achievement

WG/TPL = WA

player of 20 million building a 1 mil build, has a high divider, cause he is up top
player of 5k with 500 points growth then beats this 20 mil player by simply using the divider formula

This problem is greater on X-TREME where a big amount of players is joining every day. The days should play a role, it is just that the difference scale up fast in X-TREME.

What Thunderbeard suggests could be worked. It needs a case study.