NOPE. Back in the day sure.. I remember the pride of watching our sg climb the top 100... checking every day to see if we jumped up one more.. top 10.. on way to #1.. GO TEAM!! But that was back when bases were to mean more, now they worthless.. at best an extra storage dump, if no room left in vault or market :/
So no, can't say I or any of my friends care anymore. Note that 3 of the people I regularly play with were in that SG back when CoV first came out.. now none of us are even in a SG anymore, and only cared about prestige enough to make our own personal storage place, if at all.
Oh wanted to add one more thing, during the course of the last 4 years have been member of more then 1 top 10 sg.. Now am in soul possession of huge (at one time considered fully raid ready)bases on several servers I no longer even play on. 
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I'm just curious if a SG/VG prestige rank matters to the playerbase anymore.
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To the playerbase? In my opinion yes. Mind you there are VASTLY more folks ingame than here on the forums. And many of them less experienced and/or jaded, so to them, yeah it can matter.
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I know when bases first came out there were prestige wars and if you were #1 in rank for prestige it was a matter of pride.
But that was then. Does anyone still feel the same way?
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By and large, prestige is much less important now. BUT there is important context to understand with that statement.
Ya see, the Devs have, over the years, made some VERY significant changes to the ways in which we spend prestige. Back in the early days of bases your rent was a % of all the prestige the SG had EVER earned minus rent [If I'm off, someone will correct me.
]. I have seen base rents approaching and passing 1 million! Plus if you wanted to try out that baseraid stuff you had seen on your CoV box, well at that point the top 100 was basically the list of those that even had the OPTION to explore it. (Okay, that was my experience on Victory.) Those were some good reasons to care back then.
Nowadays bases have a MUCH easier time of it! In a nutshell players can now make more prestige for the same enemies AND stuff costs much less.
It's not how many times you get knocked down that count. It's how many times you get up.
<ul type="square">[*]Rulker - the jist of the thread was whether anybody cares at all about which SG/VG is ranked first in overal prestige earned and not what your personal prestige totals are.
[*]Darktyger - Oh, prestige -rank-? I didn't give a flying rat's bum from day 1. Prestige itself, yeah, I care because it is needed to pay the base rent and trick the base out.
[*]NeoSporin - In my personal experience, Top Prestige earners were the worst SGs to join. They were so prestige driven they'd invite anybody who'd join, pressure you into staying in SG mode, and never team with you. Many rarely even talked to you.[/list]
That's what I thought you meant from your OP, Rulker.
Well, the Taxibot experience is that we don't dwell upon Prestige, though we acknowledge that having Prestige helps us maintain decent base facilities. For example, for new taxis we'll mention that being in SG mode is optional (no penalty), though it's encouraged because the Prestige is utilized to expand the base.
As of late, Taxikitten Midori has been renovating our base and it's looking quite nice. The next step is to emulate something we've seen with the League of Extraordinarily Indebted Heroes (Darktyger), where any "Leaguer" that collects 1,000,000 Prestige gets their own room. That's kinda neat because it turns Prestige accumulating into a sub-game that is in addition to one's regular adventures. I haven't looked for a bit, but the Leaguers are something like the top 1-3 ranked teams on Infinity.
(A week ago or so, someone mentioned that there was once an exploit that temporarily allowed supergroups to accumulate massive amounts of Prestige, thereby rocketing them to the top of the rankings. However, that statement was qualified to state that none of the top Infinity teams had partaken of that exploit. I'm inclined to aggree on the basis that the Leaguers are a good, supportive bunch.)
For the Taxibots on Infinity, we're somewhat pleased that we hit the Top-100 a few months back, and have steadily risen to something like #78 at the moment. Still, the ranking is really just a novelty. The main thing we observe is that rising in the rankings means that we have a healthy, active group. This implies that people are having fun, which is mainly what we're looking for in our teams.
It's a shame that you had that experience, NeoSporin. Compounding the problem is likely people who find themselves stretched between too many toons, which can become laborious to maintain fun relationships.
-Johnny