Today's update contains two fixes that will essentially invalidate the current scores in the leaderboards and histograms:
1. The cost of the piston arm has been increased from 30G to 40G.
2. Solutions that loop fewer than two full times before producing all outputs will now trigger an additional "verification check" to verify your solution can loop without breaking. Cycle and area scores should not be affected.
If you see anything that looks like a bug in the scoring system, please email us ([email protected]) so that we can investigate it right away. I'm hoping to reset all histograms and leaderboards in the next few days, and hoping to not have to do it again after that.
ALSO: I recognize the irony in how we just implemented a fast-forward feature that is completely unusable to the high-instruction-count optimizers who want it most. We are working a solution for this and hope to have it out soon!