Tavern-Game Leaderboards: a Plus or a Minus?

Am really hoping to see something like this for the to-be tavern games, especially since it feels as though a lot of us are expecting at least 1 card-game, such as the TCG that one of the fans has made, or a card-game akin to The Witcher's.

Would really like for us to know who the top players are for these games, so you can double-take when you see their names in this-or-that tavern. Would really like to challenge some of the top people and occasionally take a win, for bragging rights!

Or would this encourage players to be "slaves" to the tavern-games? (I.e. Would it detract from encouraging players from experiencing other elements of the game?)

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Azherae

The two top players on the card game platform my team built generally found it frustrating or annoying to be recognizable in this way.

The other three, during their various times at the top, didn't seem to treat it as a positive, more neutral or slightly annoyed.

I don't think that at any point, anyone who wanted to be #1 that seemed to think it would be a positive, actually managed to reach that level. Maybe that one guy for a few days, but that could have been 'luck'.

This isn't to say 'this would be a negative', the community type would probably be different. Just adding what little context I can.

Raven016

Tyranthraxus wrote: »

Would really like to challenge some of the top people and occasionally take a win, for bragging rights!

Or would this encourage players to be "slaves" to the tavern-games? (I.e. Would it detract from encouraging players from experiencing other elements of the game?)

Those who do not win the arena battles which makes them Mayors, should get their little alternatives.
Each tavern should have it's own leader-board, destroyed at siege.
If a player goes corrupt often might get the benefits of being hunted more often. Maybe their names should be red

Dolyem

I would say make it optional maybe, and maybe keep it local per tavern. I may want to finesse somebody at a game I excel at or vice versa, but if they can just look up my record of how good I am without needing to test me, lame interaction.

Raven016

Players maybe will use external assisting software to play for them...

Fantmx

I think having these rankings on a per tavern basis would be fine. It should follow the same localization policy as auction houses.

Ludullu

And I say have leaderboards both local and server-wide. Just give players the ability to change their name to "Anonymous", if they want.

Even Palia has a leaderboard for its mini-game. It's the only "pvp" in that game.

Gizban

Server wide anything (unless achieved through nodes) shouldn't be a thing. Node wide would be ok.

I feel any leaderboard should be based in the taverns within the node. It should require a certain node level as well.

The reason for this is I want things local community based.

Whats the point of a player list when you don't know them, and likely won't?

A fun thing would a World Championship around the tavern game. I could be a part of whatever 'yearly' festival Vera has.
The top 2 of every lvl xx node are invited to compete at the metropolis that the hosts the Festival that 'year'.

Spif

I don't have anything against leaderboards at various levels (tavern, node, serverwide), as long as you can opt out.

Leaderboards need to be reset if the rules of the game change in a way that makes scores lower though

Taleof2Cities

I also support this idea.

The rewards for tavern games can be dialed in so that players still treat it as a side activity.

That way, they don't become the "slaves" described in the OP.

Tyranthraxus

The sum of the thread's responses seems to be that we should have leaderboards, but having your name show on them should be optional. While yours truly wouldn't mind his name in lights for being in the top 10 at a tavern-game, I can understand the desire for anonymity.

Would also favor both a server-wide, as well as a local leaderboard. The latter would allow for local renown and prestige, since we can't all be in-competition with the true addicts that would make the server-wide leaderboards.

Voeltz

I think it's a good idea for tavern, node, and server leaderboards, It's just for fun after all. If people want to play it competitively, that's completely up to them. I don't see that as being a valid reason to exclude them from the game. They could even have player hosted tournaments in taverns or events for specific games and title unlocks. Maybe a grand games event once a year.

Noaani

NiKr wrote: »

Even Palia has a leaderboard for its mini-game. It's the only "pvp" in that game.

Does Palia not have a auction or marketplace?

Solvryn

Leaderboards are always limited in their scoring,

Ludullu

Noaani wrote: »

Does Palia not have a auction or marketplace?

Nope

You can request stuff and players will just give those mats to you. It's a super cooperative game.

Raven016

NiKr wrote: »

Noaani wrote: »

Does Palia not have a auction or marketplace?

Nope You can request stuff and players will just give those mats to you. It's a super cooperative game.

What you was doing in that game?

Ludullu

Raven016 wrote: »

What you was doing in that game?

Playing it? It's a super grindy soloable game and I don't have anything to grind until Genshin's 4.0 patch comes out.

Raven016

NiKr wrote: »

Raven016 wrote: »

What you was doing in that game?

Playing it? It's a super grindy soloable game and I don't have anything to grind until Genshin's 4.0 patch comes out.

I was curious if you was fishing too.
Hardcore PvPers need fishing time to time

Ludullu

Raven016 wrote: »

I was curious if you was fishing too.
Hardcore PvPers need fishing time to time

I do all the things. Grind is grind, no matter what you're doing.

Caww

Leaderboards seem like a simple game play aspect that most players ignore but some really enjoy so why not?

Glir

Whatever it is, I hope the games will be played for gold and the bets will be unlimited

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