i'm casting my vote for option B as the lesser of two evils ;>(posted 8949 days ago)while i do not think we should complicate things too much (e.g. "power combination" rewards, differentiating between levels played / levels won etc.),
i move that the amount of points for "levels completed" should be kept down to, say, maybe 5K instead of 10K.
advantages of this: as intended, you reap ample rewards for reaching the next level (be honest: how often do you score more than 5K in one level anyway?) thus preventing the "suicide option", while good playing still effects the outcome - the difference between so-so play and really good play would probably be another 5K points max or about 65% (1000 points left + 5K bonus vs. 5000 pts left + 5 K = 6K vs. 10K instead of 11//15 using the proposed 10K per level ruling which would give only about 30% advantage for good playing)
disadvantages: there's only one i can think of - you can't deduce the "max level reached" from the score at first sight
ok, [BLAH] mode off!