The answer is yes - big time. It's much harder for the reasons outlined in the video and I no longer recommend doing it. In fact I strongly recommend NOT doing it.
The challenge is great, I like that. But now that it's harder FD need to rebalance all sorts of things that were affected - like getting Rank 5 via undermining. My suggestion is that merits should no longer halve, but go down by a specific amount, like say 1,000, each week.
There could be many other ways of doing it though so I will leave it to the community.
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