Points

Points are the main reward on the server, obtained by completing Maps and Challenges. They are awarded at the end of both, and the number of points awarded varies depending on their difficulty. Currently, there are three types of points.

FFA Points

FFA Points, often referred to as points, are the main type of points and typically are what players refer to points as. They are awarded upon completing published Maps for the first time in FFA or FFA+.

There are several different systems of FFA Points that have existed throughout the years.

Ancient System

At the inception of the server, every single map awarded a single point reward regardless of difficulty. This would lead to problems in the reward system as more maps were made, albeit at this time points had no reward incentive. Eventually, the FFA Airship was created, and the points system was changed within a few years of the server's creation.

Airship System

For most of the Airship's life, the server divided maps into five difficulties. Difficulties were organized linearly, with blue maps being the easiest and red maps being the hardest. The colors and values proceeded as follows:

Airship System Points
Blue	1
Green	2
Yellow	3
Orange	4
Red	5

One interesting quirk of the Airship System (which also existed in the Ancient System in a less pronounced way) is that there were no server-side automatic calculations for determining how many points a player had based on the maps they completed. This led to situations where beating a map before or after its difficulty changed would reward players with different point totals, and players were not reimbursed or deducted points depending on which side they fell on. In May 2016, a temporary solution was implemented where players could run /c recalc on themselves or other players to update their point values. This was changed to be an automatic calculation shortly after.

During the use of the Airship system, the Blue rank required getting 20 FFA Points, beating the FAQ Quiz, and entering Hardcore.

The Airship was retired January 4, 2018, with the transition to City Spawn. It wasn't until near the end of City Spawn's lifespan that the points system would change to the Modern system. This new system was created due to the drastic increase in the skill gap between new and old players.

Modern System

This is the current system of points being used. In contrast to the Airship style, the point rewards of different difficulties vary roughly quadratically with each increase of difficulty. Likewise, this system added the white and black difficulties to account for the skill gap between novices and veterans. The current colors and values proceed as follows:

Modern System Points
White	1
Blue	2
Green	4
Yellow	7
Orange	12
Red	18
Black	25

With the change in points, the process of obtaining Blue rank modernized as well. Blue rank no longer requires entering Hardcore successfully, but occurs automatically. When Modern Style was first introduced, players needed 35 points. This requirement changed June 2020 to obtaining 100 points and completing 5 Moderate or higher difficulty maps. It is no longer required to enter Hardcore to get Blue rank.

FFA Point Unlocks

There are only two unlocks on the server that require FFA Points. The first is Blue rank, as 100 points are needed to become Blue. The second is the Odyssey Challenge, which requires 1000 FFA Points to join.

The only other changes that having more FFA points grants are related to the player's percentage of points (compared to the maximum). Reaching thresholds of 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of all FFA Points for the first time will send an announcement message in chat. These thresholds also correspond to a color change in any command that shows the player's total points percentage. The highest threshold of points the player has reached determines their percent color. The only exception is for 100%, where having 100% of points will show a gold color, and any lower current percentage the player has will show as yellow.

Challenge Points

Challenge Points are a point type introduced with challenges. They are awarded to the player upon successfully completing a challenge for the first time (in most cases). The amount awarded is dependent on the difficulty of the challenge. There are different subcategories of Challenge Points that add together to make the total challenge points a player has.

Standard Challenge Points

Most challenges reward Standard Challenge Points, which is the equivalent of FFA Points for challenges. There is a set maximum of these, and there is a percent challenge points obtained color scale that functions the same as the FFA Points scale. Challenge Point percentage thresholds are not announced, however.

Repeating Challenge Points

With the push to have consistent point values for challenges of similar difficulty, challenges increased their point rewards across the board. Along with this change came the creation of Daily Points, a reward for challenges with changing map sets based on time (i.e. the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Challenges). Each instance, or rotation, of reoccurring challenges calculates the point reward by adding together the total FFA Points of the maps in the set.

Repeating Challenge Points are also awarded by having third or higher when the challenge refreshes. Getting first rewards 10% of the original challenge's points, second rewards 5%, and third rewards 2.5%. The calculation rounds down, meaning challenges can and often reward 0 Repeating Challenge Points through this method. Players in the top three will all get mail stating how many bonus points they got through this method.

Challenge Point Unlocks

Standard Challenge Points use the same color threshold system that FFA Points use. Challenge Points themselves do not award or unlock anything, however.

Speedrun Score

Speedrun Score was introduced for the server's 7th anniversary based on an idea by ZombieKiler. It is the most recently introduced point type and is made for the speedrunning community. Speedrun Score is similar to FFA Points, except score is based on leaderboard placement for how fast a player beats maps. Speedrun Score is only awarded for maps in FFA and FFA+.

Global Points System

When introduced, Speedrun Score was known as Global Points. Due to the mystery behind the formula that governed Global Points, These rewarded points based on several factors mainly related to completions and the player's ranking for individual maps.

There was a large amount of mystery behind the formula that governed Global Points, leading players to believe it was based on factors which, in reality, did not effect the calculation like difficulty. The real calculation is as follows:

In June 2020, Global Points became known as Speedrun Score. This formula remained for a year and a half afterwards.

Current Speedrun Score System

There were several issues with the previous system for calculating Speedrun Score. One such example is that a map's popularity among all players mattered much more than the intended counterbalance of having a large number of completions due to high competition. This made it so low difficulty maps with high competition, like Mineco and Factory, rewarded meager amounts of Speedrun Score compared to newly released difficult maps. These problems, along with an unclear understanding of what the formula was, led to player dissatisfaction with the system.

In February 2022, Bahnarli ran a Speedrun Score Formula Survey among Greens+. This survey asked questions about several factors, such as how many different map placements were needed to match the score of a first place time (e.g. how many third place times are needed to match the score of a first place time). The results of the survey led to the new simpler formula of Speedrun Score = 500 / (rank^1.25).

Here is a table showing all possible Speedrun Score amounts based on the player's map ranking.

Rank Speedrun Points 1 500 2 210 3 127 4 88 5 67 6 53 7 44 8 37 9 32 10 28 11 25 12 22 13 20 14 18 15 17 16 16 17 14 18-19 13 20 12 21 11 22-23 10 24-26 9 27-28 8 29-32 7 33-36 6 37-43 5 44-52 4 53-69 3 70-104 2 105-251 1 252+ 0

Checking Points and Placement

For checking someone else's points, the command is /points <player>. For a player checking their own points, the command is /points. An example /points command result is shown below.

The first line displays FFA Points next to the percent of all FFA Points obtained and completion ranking. The percentage is yellow since the player had reached 100% points previously and is no longer at 100%. The second line shows the player's Speedrun Score and their speedrun leaderboard placement. The third line shows the player's Standard Challenge Points, their percentage of all obtainable Standard Challenge Points, and their Standard Challenge Point leaderboard ranking. The fourth line shows the player's Repeating Challenge Points and placement on the respective leaderboard. The fifth line shows the player's Total Challenge Points, which is the sum of their Standard and Repeating Challenge Points, and respective leaderboard placement.

Each point type has their own leaderboard ranking searchable with commands directly: FFA Points via /leaderboard maps completion, Challenge Points via /leaderboard challenges points total, /leaderboard challenges points repeating, and /leaderboard challenges points standard, and Speedrun Score via /leaderboard maps speedrun.

Trivia

• Early on, maps that were in The Valley awarded 1 FFA Point as an incentive to play the maps there. This was changed January 17, 2016.
• Before FFA Point totals were based on maps completed, they added to the player's total points with no other checks. This led to funny situations like this post, where admins could get far larger quantities of points than was possible since commands could set a player's point total in the past.
• Repeating Challenge Points were initially calculated by subtracting the soon-to-be Standard Challenge Points number from challenges completed in the player's Total Challenge Points. Because Zatharel had 12 C-Points and beat only the Welcome to Hell Challenge totaling 50 Challenge Points, he wound up with a calculated Repeating Challenge Points amount of -38.
• Null times in the past counted towards Speedrun Score. However, update 11.0.39 changed it so null times no longer award score.
• Maps that were secondary levels or alternate endings to other main maps used to not award Speedrun Score, but as of this linked update do award Speedrun Score.
• Despite not being in use, there is support for Total Challenge Points and Speedrun Score to serve as entry requirements into challenges in the same way that Odyssey requires FFA Points.

See Also

• Maps - These reward FFA Points and Speedrun Score
• Challenges - These reward Challenge Points
• Times - These are the metric used to award Speedrun Score in maps.