DMARC Star Fighter leaderboard

How the board is ranked

A row is a whole campaign run, not a single chapter, so every score on this page covers the same four missions: publish a monitoring record, align your senders, raise enforcement, and read the reports that keep arriving. Ties break on mission time, and then on whoever got there first.

Scores are pinned to the ruleset they were set on. Art, copy, and bug fixes do not move a score, so an all-time board stays all-time instead of resetting every time a sprite changes.

What score earns each rank

Par for the whole campaign is 136,000 points, and every rank threshold is a fraction of it. Only the S asks for something other than score.

Pinned to ruleset 2. A score set on an earlier ruleset ranks against the one it was set on, and never against this table.

Frequently asked questions

How does the DMARC Star Fighter leaderboard work?

Each pilot holds one row: their best verified run of the four-chapter campaign. A better run replaces it, so replaying never fills the board with duplicates of the same player.

How is a score verified?

A submitted run starts with a signed receipt from the server and finishes by returning it. The server recalculates the rank from the score and the lives left, then rejects any result that does not match, or that claims a time shorter than the run actually took. The board also ships with a roster of house pilots, the way an arcade cabinet ships with a high-score table already on it. Their scores stop below the A threshold, so every one is beatable, the first A and the first S both belong to a real player, and each real pilot who places retires one house pilot.

What is the difference between the all-time and today's board?

The all-time board holds the best submitted run from every pilot on the current ruleset, and never closes. Today's board covers the current UTC day only and locks at 00:00 UTC, after which the standing is final.

What score do I need for an S rank?

An S needs 190,400 points and at least 2 lives left at the end of the campaign. An A needs 115,600 and a B needs 68,000, with no condition on lives. Every threshold is a fraction of the campaign par of 136,000 points.

Do I need an account to appear on the leaderboard?

No. You pick a callsign, and it is stored in your browser alongside a random pilot ID. No email address, account, or real domain is ever attached to a score.

Then do it on a domain that is not fictional

The campaign is a rehearsal on starbase.example. To see where your own domain stands, run a free email security score, then read what DMARC is and how it works and build your record with the DMARC record generator.