Scoremaxxing

Scoremaxxing is the act of trying to get very high scores or making a map purely for the score.
== History ==
When scores were added to MetroDreamin', the user Javer started to make a first map trying to seek for flaws in the system, and to get as many points as possible in the shortest amount of time. The term scoremaxxing was quickly coined when the user IndiMetro found out this act in the MetroDreamin' Discord server. The first day of scoremaxxing was topped with a score of around 9000. Most of the loopholes and flaws were patched after that map was made.
With time, topscores were becoming higher and higher. The highest score of an unbranched map belongs to asabovesobelow with the map A silly attempt at getting points (Goal: 140k) with a staggering score of 129,740 . However, this sparked a lot of map stealers, and caused the map to have lots of branches. The controversial high score map of MetroDreamin', as of 31/10/24, is branched from said map. The infamous map in question, is called ‘Does pineapple belong on pizza? Idk, but pizza topped with gummy bears sounds even better!’, which currently has the score of 127,849. Obviously, there is a lot of negative comments and critique on that map, and that resulted with a petition made by the owner of the map, aRandomMetroDreamER, to delete the map when it reaches 100 downvotes (currently at 52 downvotes).
Currently, the map with the most score that is NOT trying to scoremaxx is ‘Shanghai, but lines are everywhere’ by Tsiroluce Jir Jysirovski with a score of 39,347.The map was originally created for scoremaxxing, only for the first few week after published. Now, the map almost has no purpose.
There is a lot of dissatisfaction with the score feature. A majority of users have wanted the ‘Top Scores Today’ section removed due to the controversy regarding the map with the highest score.