Important: Daily Lab Limit

[Yugali]

Hey there Arcade Players,

We hope the new lab limit is helping you reach your learning and earning goals in the Arcade! However, we also believe it's important for you to understand the reasoning behind this rule.

Why this change? Because you deserve to progress toward your cloud skills goals as efficiently and flexibly as possible.

Why the Limit at All?

The Arcade needs to remain a fair and accessible platform for everyone. This limit helps us manage platform resources responsibly. For example, some users relaunch labs multiple times or use workarounds to access specific content repeatedly, which can negatively impact the platform experience for other players.

However, if managed correctly, this limit can be more than enough for anyone to achieve all the milestones in the program and more.

✅ Point #1: We have just started the new season of the arcade. "Speed" has NEVER led to learning, whether it’s learning cloud or anything else. You still have a LOT, LITERALLY A LOT OF TIME to reach your milestones, so DO NOT worry at all.

✅ Point #2: We also understand that learning can be overwhelming sometimes. To ensure you have the right balance between learning and everything else, this limit can be helpful.

✅ Point #3: We understand that not everyone can successfully complete the labs in a single attempt and may need time for learning. For such cases, we recommend that users first go through the lab instructions and understand them before starting. That has always been the correct way of learning.

Learning for all: Thank you for your dedication and patience as we work to make the Arcade learning experience better for everyone. We’re introducing this new lab limit in an effort to find the right balance: you should have plenty of room to grow your skills, but we want to keep the platform running smoothly for all. 

Here’s to reaching your next big milestone in the Arcade.

See you in The Cloud!

[peter_newcombe]

I was okay with the previous limit, but now you have reduced it to 10 (altough looking at the scoreboards, some have worked a way around it), it means that if I retry a couple of Labs, it takes 2 or 3 days to complete one of the Milestone parts, return it back to the original amount of 15 !!!!!

[Fleabyte]

yes the 72,000,000,000 in all labs on 1st week looks like a work around to me, ie the persons in 1st, 2nd, 3rd place not limited to 10 perhaps?

[tariqsheikh]

You contradict your #1 yourself. If speed has NEVER lead to learning , why your score boards are based on fastest time to completion? And why your top 20 in certification are always based on speed and fastest 20 ? 

You have previously encouraged folks to use scripts and get in top leaderboard rankings based on speed. Now you are discouraging them from same. Clearly there is no consistency in your policies and your reasoning is flawed 

Here are the suggestions :

1. Remove leaderboard and cert zone based on speed/fastest completion and introduce a different way to gauge performance/skills

2 . If you cant do #1, increase lab daily limits to 15/20 so working professionals can manage to complete milestones/games etc.

3. If you can't do either#1 and #2, then reduce number of labs in games from 12/13 to 5. that way we can atleast complete games and NOT have to worry about lab limits.

I hope you listen to community as your steps are discouraging folks/working professionals/students and many have already quitted arcade and many more will do.

[darshansharma_]

Totally agree with you, on one hand leaderboard is affected by people who complete lab under 60-120 seconds (impossible for new users) and on the other hand placing limits on labs stating SPEED as a reason.

1. Let me tell you other workaround @Yugali I have seen people doing labs using multiple accounts (5-10 account per person) to get swags from all the accounts. 

2. Whoever designs the labs for The Arcade don’t keep in mind about the learning curve (order to which labs about a particular topic should be put). Seems like it is randomly done by some algorithm. 

[Biru]

social media vs reality,  expectations/ dreams vs reality 

[Yash_Solanki]

True

[yashgoyal365]

I don't know why you guys stick to that leaderboard which is don't even matter and if you want to top that useless leaderboard you can use different cloud shell scripts or use Ephemeral mode of shell.

[iamabhi]

It's not about leaderboard it's about rewards related to that leaderboard

[yashgoyal365]

There are no rewards for that leaderboard. 😂

[iamabhi]

Rewards means certifications also and leaderboard indirectly related to that certification voucher whoever completed those labs really fast or as soon as the arcade started are in top 20 or using different tactics they got more points on leaderboard means it is directly related to that certification voucher. 

[iamabhi]

And if it all about learning and no rewards related to that then why they even created that leaderboard.

[hanisntsolo]

Well I only stick to the number of skill badges I have done!

[Gouri94]

Why you are looking on other guys, you should look on you. 

[Abhishek213]

Why when people are making arcade as business they should ban such users

[Gouri94]

Some one seems that it is a part of business. 

[hanisntsolo]

😂 business 

[Abhishek213]

Yeah many sell swags too

[hanisntsolo]

What 😬 why would anybody do that!

is there a marketplace?

[Abhishek213]

Yes🥲

[janusz_szpilews]

It's not a big deal if you can acquire some items for nothing and sell them cheaply. Particularly given that among them were some quite valuable electronics.

[Peace]

I agree with this, well explained @darshansharma 🫱🏽‍🫲🏽

[Fleabyte]

agree, working professionals might do 1 lab per day m-f and try 15 on saturday and sunday

[anything_0]

I totally agree. With 10 labs/day limit reaching the milestones are quite difficult. And I am sure I will not reach milestone #3 because of this.🥲

Just do something about it😑

[ravi_13]

@Yugali Please add Laptop stand in swags

[Abhishek213]

All swags are decided now for next cohort they may add

[BelalSaeid]

will it be the same swags from the previous season?

[Abhishek213]

It will be upgraded

[Biru]

bluetooth keyboard or usb type c keyboard🙂pendrive🙂wavelamp...

[Metzen]

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We hope the new lab limit is helping you reach your learning and earning goals in the Arcade!

 I feel helped

[Biru]

ha bahut help milaraha

[Abhishek213]

😂😂😂

[Biru]

Mam I want to clarify a thing to you that ... adding limit is a good idea but....the resetting it on the basis of last completed labs is a dumb idea .....please add strict time refresh for everyones limit ......like telecom companies refresh their daily data limit on 12:00 am night.....it will be good for us.....Also another thing I am reporting you that I think I have done many wrong  work in my life ...but after the limit it seems that using the facilitator credit coupon code and use it to get a subscription was the most wrong work I have done ever.........You can increase everyones  limit when there is low load on server ....In between 11:59p.m. to 11:59 a.m. there is low or minimal load on server ....mostly at night 11:59p.m. to 6:00 a.m.  you should increase the limit the users who completed certain number of labs and exhaust their limit in that timeframe will not participate labs on peak hours so servers heatwave can be improved.. example -- add a custom limit like 20 lab limit or 25 lab limit when the server load is low or minimal mostly at night the participant who exhaust that limit during that time they will not do labs in evening peak hours so heatwave release of servers keeping  the 10 lab limit from 11:59 A.M. to 11:59 p.m evening time frame .....so that we can complete the skill badges without pressure in our mind .....this limit is acting like a pressure threating us ....please consider my idea...and use your creativity to add a good rule to implement this in servers.......

[Anandk]

mam @Yugali please see this point its very helpful "please add strict time refresh for everyones limit ......like telecom companies refresh their daily data limit on 12:00 am night.....it will be good for us"

[hanisntsolo]

Google and its obsession with algorithms,

Sliding Window!!

[Rushina1]

awesome note : @Biru ...this caps it all 😄   "I think I have done many wrong  work in my life ...but after the limit it seems that using the facilitator credit coupon code and use it to get a subscription was the most wrong work I have done ever." I Please read this note above @Yugali 

[EZRS22]

that is very wrong limit can make be anyone  learning to slow

[iamabhi]

If the certification arcade was genuinely about learning, then those who completed their labs without shortcuts or tactics would be rewarded. However, it seems that the focus is more on speed and quick completion rather than a deep understanding of the material. The leaderboard rankings and certification awards often prioritize speed, which contradicts the idea that learning should be the primary goal. It's frustrating that people who stick to the process and genuinely engage with the content don't get the same recognition as those who find ways to rush through it.

[sonawanelalit]

Retry limits have been reduced from 15 to 10, making it harder to complete milestone parts efficiently, especially with retries. Please consider reverting to the original limit of 15 for better progress.

[manohar117]

yes