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The Great Leaderboard Reset
Leaderboard Fixes & New Features
Leaderboard Improvements
- Paperclips Leaderboard Reset:
- Paperclips Leaderboard Reset:
- The "All-Time Paperclips" leaderboard has been reset. I discovered that the previous stat was being silently capped by the backend, causing every endgame player to show roughly the same value (~340 undecillion) regardless of their actual paperclip count. This has been completely fixed, the leaderboard now accurately reflects your true all-time paperclip totals using a new encoding method, and scores are displayed in proper scientific notation. Your new paperclip counts will be submitted automatically as you play.
- Best Times Leaderboard Reset
- Best Times have also been reset. We found that some entries had unrealistic times (for example, completing Stage 1 in under 15 minutes), and the system had no way to prevent tampered times from being re-uploaded. I've added minimum time thresholds for each stage, cross-stage consistency checks, and integrity protection on locally saved best times. Going forward, only legitimately earned times will appear on the leaderboard. If an admin removes a suspicious entry, it stays removed.
- Prestige and Time Played are unchanged. These stats were not affected and remain exactly as they were.
- Your game saves are completely unaffected. No save data was changed, reset, or modified in any way. All your progress, upgrades, and prestige count are safe.
- Prestige 0 players are no longer shown on the leaderboards. You need at least one prestige to appear on the boards.
New Features
- Run Timer
- A new run timer now appears in the header showing your elapsed time with per-stage splits (S1, S2, S3). The timer freezes when you win and resets on prestige, so you can track your pace each run.
- Emoji Picker Overhaul
- The emoji picker categories have been updated to better fit the game's theme. The Animals and Food categories have been replaced with Space (planets, stars, satellites, aliens — fitting for Stage 3's cosmic conquest) and People (characters, professions, fantasy creatures). The Objects tab now shows the📎 paperclip as its icon.
- Bug Fixes
- Auto-Click SFX Toggle: Fixed an issue where you could toggle the auto-click sound effect even when the master SFX toggle was off. The auto-click SFX button now correctly shows as disabled when master SFX is turned off.
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