Ahh sad but true. PEople do feel the need to be the best so they will donate in order to do just that. Until other ways are available that don't require a check book. What if people don't wanna donate for stuff they didn't have to last round?  Perhaps put thier money in some stocks or 401k and or decent "good" stuff. Then again people run outta money to donate then what do they do? Seems to me it's gonna be harder to raise from 200th to 9th. Using this new update.  Also after such attacks as being zeored or losing a couple ships.

I'm sure the top players will have thier way anyways. I've heard Emi pulls this stuff often?

Well IMO things need to change every round so you do something different. Spayed you could be drinking some bad cider buddy. YOu don't need to max out every round if what you were doing doesn't work anymore or not as effective do something else. Truely bitching helps in some ways but not the way you did. If I was Emi i would keep the change "if their is one" to make the difficulty harder and give some new players a chance its not all about the people who donate and who've been around its for everyone.