Originally Posted by
Semaphore
Jeffrey Uy, I saw you at #1 in the daily world boss fairly late in the event. Unfortunately for you, that event pretty heavily favors people who can rack up more score per battle. In order to get above whatever rank threshold you're aiming for, you have to either be able to run up score fast enough that others can't pass you, or make it expensive enough that they won't try.
For example, let's suppose that you can kill 500k troops per battle and someone else can kill 1 million troops per battle. Let's suppose that within 1 minute left in the event, you have the same score, and there is time for 8 battles left. The person you're competing against knows that he can drop another 8 million points on his score in that minute, while you can only do 4 million. He might decide to do 5 million just so that you can't beat him and stop. If he's 3 million points behind you, he knows that he can catch up. This often leads to the people who can't put points on the board as fast just declining to compete at all.
In order for you to win, you have to either happen to hit a day when no one capable of running up a score in a hurry cares to, or else be so far ahead that people who look at it decide it's not worth what it would cost to catch you. Had you been #1 by a margin of 30 million points with 5 minutes to go, it's likely that no one decides to challenge you for #1 even if they could, as it's simply too expensive to bother.
As for no one else caring, I once got #1 with a score of about 20 million. I don't get #1 often, because I don't want to burn a ton of koban on it. Speaking of koban, on days when koban is the reward, a score of 50 million isn't even guaranteed to put you in the top 10.
People also tend to try to score just above the threshold for a big reward, not just below it. Sometimes #3 gives far better rewards than #2. Sometimes #10 gives far better rewards than #11. When there is such a drop off, you'll see a lot more competition from people trying to get the better reward rather than the lesser one.
On the bright side, by pushing Aqua-chain, Rimuru, and Neowarden to have to put up more points than they would otherwise have in order to finish in the top 3, you might be primarily responsible for allowing everyone on the server to clear one convoy more than they would have otherwise. Whether you value that or not is up to you.