Vikings: Or that new people starting on a stair have no option other to battle those that are already inactive (waiting sometimes almost a month before climbing up and maybe playing a game for real).

Also, with all the inactive players pilling up in the first level, the staircase may grow articially longer than it should be...

pauloaguia: those people tend to run out of vacation days and time out quickly, otherwise they are active and just slow, another problem altogether

Vikings: I did put on the Brainking DB earlier that the script could also check if a person does not have anyone to challenge, then it would not effect them, hence if you are at the top, you stay there, but when a person becomes available you should have to challenge someone after a certain time.

MadMonkey: why should someone at the top have to challange someone 3 steps below them, they have already earned the top spot and only have to defend it when someone reaches them

Vikings: I understand what you are saying, in that case they would have to be an exception to the rule, but they would still be in-active.
There has to be some sort of rule set i think. Maybe they have to challenge if someone is one step below them & available.
Something would have to be there though to check they still are an active player on Brainking.
Until Fencer gives us his views or what he intends to do with the Stairs(if anything) all we can do is come up with ideas lol