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Is adding a leader-board an adequate way to inspire competition?

 
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Leader-board / stats

Post by Dux_Tell31 » Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:20 pm

It is my opinion that in order to encourage competition between players, that futurecraft should have a leader-board on our website with stats and rankings. This is a common feature found in the MMO genre of games. Don't believe the writing of the code would be that much of a problem, even I might be able to to attempt it, given some more time. What I haven't figured out, is how we would collect the necessary information, or for that matter what information to get. Formatting it into the HTML should be the easy part.
However some cons to adding this as a feature would be the storage requirement. Also, we'ed have to offer a way to opt out of collecting information from individually users, as this can be a touchy subject.
Remember,the purpose of this leaderboard is to inspire competition and competitiveness between players, and even entire factions.
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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by ACH0225 » Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:54 pm

The only problem I can see is that top players would become a hit-list of sorts, and whenever they enter a new region, they will get swarmed by newbs who want to say they attacked the #1.
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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by Tunnelthunder » Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:57 pm

I can see it working to inspire people to fight more frequently and be smarter, but it also works like a hit list..
Maybe not list names just the top stats.

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Post by Dr. Mackeroth » Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:30 am

Or use separate pseudonymous for the leader boards.
I think it's a wonderful idea.
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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by fr0stbyte124 » Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:59 am

It wouldn't be hard, but what would you score?

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Post by Tunnelthunder » Sat Mar 02, 2013 1:35 am

fr0stbyte124 wrote:It wouldn't be hard, but what would you score?
Way to rain on the parade.

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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by fr0stbyte124 » Sat Mar 02, 2013 1:40 am

I THOUGHT SOMEBODY KNEW I'M SO SORRY!

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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by joykler » Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:51 am

kills
power of the ship if he she owns one
time played
time in space
deaths
[maybe wich mutations he she has ]
armor points [the maximum armor he has ever worn each armor piece gets its own amount of points]
strength
lvl

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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by Iv121 » Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:56 am

Eh is that a bug ?

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Post by joykler » Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:09 am

sorry something went wrong with my computer and it did that it should be gone now

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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by Keon » Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:28 am

time played will not be the leaderboard. K/D shouldn't either. Factions should be the thing we leaderboard so we encourage teamwork and strength in unity and stuff, not just pew pew pew.
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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by Iv121 » Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:41 am

Pew Pew Pew is not what you encourage - try to make other "leaderboards" : For example bounty table with the list of bounties for the worst pirates in the galaxy, nice and dangerous at the same time to be on top :tongue: , so yea if you want to be the most terrifying pirate in the galaxy way to go :) . Best trader (Best trade deals ofc :) ), best warrior (In my scheme would be most confirmed alien kills + systems liberated), all those could be nice leaderboards to give someone where to go and not just do pew pew . Additionally medals (For example for liberating a system or for doing an important mission for the government) and achievements are nice. This way you allow everyone no matter what he does to go higher and seek some perfection if he wants to OFC, for others you can give those medals or try to get achievements. Leaderboards can be divided into tiers so that achieving a significant achievement will be easier and more satisfying.
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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by ACH0225 » Sat Mar 02, 2013 1:12 pm

We should have leaderboards for the following-
Most FTL jumps
Most missiles fired
Largest ship(blocks of air in ship)
Most kills
Most minerals mined(subcategories for each mineral)
Most planets visited
# of black holes fallen in
Most lasers fired
Most ships built(Would have to be above a certain size)
Most nukes detonated
Most ships captured
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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by Iv121 » Sat Mar 02, 2013 1:57 pm

What you did is just statistics, and somewhat boring ones (most FTL jumps ? )
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Re: Leader-board / stats

Post by ACH0225 » Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:01 pm

Sure, shows whether you are a traveler or a noob. Noobs would have maybe >150 jumps, while not noobs would have <200 jumps.
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