Hi. This year we’re not really doing any joke per-se. All of the jokes we could run were considered “too real”, “too serious” and “too sad” by site staff. Hence we’ve decided to make a very simple site-wide game for you.

This game is simple. You upload stuff, you comment on stuff, and you post forum posts. For doing so, you receive points. In the near future we’ll probably also add tagging to this, but frankly I’ve been kind of overworked so I skipped it for now.

A meaningless number. You earn them to have your team “win”.

The winner team gets a special customized badge. The loser team gets their team logo as a badge.

Important: you must be at least of Rank F (5 points) to qualify for a badge!

Here’s a table of point rewards

and punishments

How come punishments take away more points than their action counterparts? If we have to do moderation actions on your content, it means you’re probably not playing the game in a good spirit of the game. We will not tolerate rule breaking behavior only to gain some points.

A fun display of how much time you wasted on this event. Ranks range from F to A, with some in-between for achieving meme numbers, such as “69” points granting you “Rank: NICE”, or 420 points qualifying you for “Rank: GRASS”.

Point requirement increases exponentially. To receive the “A” rank, you must receive 5000 points.

Here’s a table:

Some ranks are granted for achieving an exact number of points.

And finally, there is Rank S. It’s granted to 10 players with the most points. (display of this rank still needs to be implemented into the code, I’ll do that momentarily)

Unlike typical April Fools, this event will run for a week. The deadline is April 7, 23:59:59 UTC.

We are considering adding other ways to earn points, such as tagging. We had no time to do it just yet. So yeah. Keep posted in this thread.

Not anymore. The deadline for team change was April 1, 23:59:59 UTC. No further team change requests will be accepted.

time to win!

Does just uploading images to contribute count towards this event?

@Zaknel
Yes. But also commenting and posting on forums does too.

Oh this is gonna be fun.

I hate Princess Luna with all my passion. Can’t I be Solar Empire? D:

(For legal reasons, this is a joke)

@icicle wicicle 1517
You’re right! I demand we restart it with Twi and Cadence factions too!

Oh this is gonna be fun.

Those logos are nice enough that the meta could be to lose.

Mexican standoff?

Huh, ok. Praise the moon goddess :p

@FliegerFaustToP47
PM Princess Celestia and ask them for a name change

Well, it’s that time again! LET’S BALL!

Neat. Should be more factions though.

I just realised the irony of CELESTIA being on the side of her sister XD

Guess I’m playing for keeps then.

Wait, so how do I choose a team in the first place?

I’ll pretend tagging counts. :(

Oh yeah. For Luna!

Interesting, i like the idea =)

@Lemonjack
You don’t - they were roughly evenly assigned to all users on the site.

Time to do some epic gamer moves lads >u>

As Ponies’ Commisar for Agitation Propaganda of the Lunar Soviet Republic, I approve.

This is a good incentive for me to find and upload the old wallpapers I used to have.