How Top 100 Survived a Mass Extinction Event

We knew the SM Worlds asteroidupdate was coming since June and we were expecting it to hit Top 100 in September. We’d prepared the ground in Top 100, as much as possible. We had 48 Gold managers, and after messaging all non-Gold managers we knew that we would lose five and probably a few more who were undecided about whether they would pay to play or not.

Somewhat out of the blue, the update was launched on the evening of Friday 24 August, the start of a Bank Holiday three day weekend in the UK. I won’t go into the details of the update or the chaos that ensued in logging into the game, playing the game, etc. That’s for another post.

What I want to focus on here is the impact on Top 100.

Of the five managers who told me they would leave when the update arrived, three weeks on and all five have now left. Two of the undecideds quit.

We also lost four managers who I had expected to stay. They all saw the changes the update brought and decided they didn’t like it enough to quit SM.

So we lost eleven managers in total.

We brought back five former Top 100 managers, and promoted six Top 120 managers new to Top 100.

Of the eleven clubs vacated, just three garnered any serious interest from managers already in Top 100. Eight clubs, no one had any interest in.

Not related to the SM update, we had three managers quit just prior for other reasons. That brought in another three Top 120 managers (including one returning former Top 100 manager).

So in the last month or so we’ve had fourteen clubs lose their managers, and replaced them with six returning former Top 100 managers, and eight Top 120 managers new to Top 100.

It’s been a hectic and chaotic few weeks, but the most important thing is that Top 100 is full, as always, and we’re all Gold except for one* renegade (who just happens to eleven points clear in D1…)

*Well, two, but the other has told me he paid for Gold but as happened to many of us it wasn’t added yet.