I've recently reached level 400 (yay for me). What I've noticed is that contest competitors have become *much* tougher. I had a vague memory that competitors were +/- 20 levels, however yesterday's contest leader was level 474 (and happily spent a heap of kobans to stay there). Today the leader is level 469. Does anyone know what the level range is for players at level 400+?
As an aside, earlier this year I resigned myself to the fact that I will never catch-up enough XP to be competitive in D3 (i.e. top 15) even though I do make an effort to have the highest stats and best maxed girls possible, best equipment and use boosters when useful. So now I play D2 and easily stay in the 15-30 level and pickup 1380 kobans each week. Not much fun competitively, but the best I can do. Contests though, have generally been fun but against 450+ level players, I'm not going to stand a chance either.