Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27095714-20151118052823/@comment-26793627-20151118194110

It's explained here in this thread.

http://rr3.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:36660

Basically it was a bug relating to how the game awarded the team players when they won gold in team challenges. Say, for example, your team has 20 members and it earns 800 in a challenge, every member gets an equal share of 800/20 = 40. This is how it normally works. The bug was that it never saved how many players were in the team when the challenge completed, and awarded the players gold according to the algorithm which took into account the number of players at that moment when a player claimed his gold.

So, for example, hypothetically if a team has 10 players and wins 420 in a challenge, the team could decide to reward each member in tune to his contribution. So the lowest scoring member (Let's call him M10) claims his share of 420/10 = 42 and leaves team. Second lowest scoring member,M9 ,now claims his reward after M10 leaves team, but he will get 420/9 = 47 (rounded off to next highest integer). After he leaves, M8 collects his reward of 420/8= 53 ..and so on. Till M2 leaves with 420/2 = 210, leaving the top scorer to collect all 420 for himself. In the process the entire team collect (42+47+53+60+70+84+105+140+210+420)= 1231, almost thrice the amount that they actually won. And I guess, the golden ladder was coined by the guy who wrote about it because of the way the gold reward gets higher with each step, like the rungs of a ladder.