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Vaderico:


In many MMORPG's, players will play until they feel they have completed as much as the game offers them, and the purpose of keeping them going is player vs player competitiveness.
Now i bet the first thing that comes to mind when you think of competition is battling, which is of coarse the most obvious way to compete.
However there is a much wider playing field when it comes to being the best in an MMO.

These things include:
-Being the best crafter
-Having the highest level
-Having the most Pokémon
-Having every Pokémon they own reach the Highest level
-Having every quest completed
-Having the largest guild
-Having the most wealthy Guild
-Being the most wealthy player
-Having the best win/loss ratio

This list is endless...

However, for many players out there these things ARE the game, and competing with the rest of the community via the leaderboards is how they would rather spend their time.
The examples I am going to give are from the highly popular game Runescape, where the PvP'ers all seem to have their fill after a couple of years and the players fighting for that number one position on the highscores list are literally the ones still playing for over 10 years later.


This is a very eye friendly screenshot of RS's 'Overall level' highscores page.
The players shown in this screenshot have turned their game into getting to that number one position.




This is a great example of how they have set out a guild leaderboard.
It includes:
-The top overall Guild
-The guild with the highest clan war score
-The Guild with the best kill/death ratio
-The Guild with the highest total level of all it's members combined





If you want to view someones stats on a more personal level, simply click on their/search for their name.




And to take it even further you can compare that player with yourself, or with anyone you like:




To completely and utterly top it off, players have the option to view other player adventurer log's.
In the adventurers log, a player may view other players:
-Stats
-Top Skills
-Overall in-game time
-Latest quests completed
-All quests completed
-Appearance
-Latest battle wins/loses
-Over all game completion in percentage






The Implementation of each of these services could be done in the following ways:


Overall top Pokemon players would be those with the highest stats over all areas except PvP.
Which would include:
-How many of each Pokémon have been caught
-The total level of each of their Pokémon combined (who has most Pokémon levels overall)
-The level of the trainer
-Breeding levels (if there is one)
-Talent tree levels (if there is one)
... and any other aspect of the game that the PU team decide to implement.
The reason why PvP should not be included into the 'Overall Top Players' list is because Pvp will have its own ranking list, and because if a player is out there grinding his/her ass off and misses tournaments to be ranked for whatever reason, then his/her efforts will not be seen by the world (even if he/she has all the Pokémon caught and at level 100)


The Pokémon Universe Guild leaderboard could be done in the exact same way.
There would be a list for:
-Guild with the most high-ranking 'Overall top Pokémon Trainers'
-Guild with the best Win/Loss ratio
-Guild with the best Guild battle statistics (if there is ever anything like that)
-Guild with the most Overall highest leveled Pokémon
-Guild with the most money
...and any other ranking system that the PU team deem necessary


Comparing your Pokémon with a friend would be one of the more popular additions, the setup would be very similar to Runescape's way of doing it.
The two trainers would be placed side by side and under each players name would be icons of each Pokémon, it's number #, its level (if owned), it's nickname etc.
A player would be able to scroll down the page comparing each others Pokémon.


This could be implemented in the exact same way. It would show:
-The players overall game time
-Latest Quests completed
-Latest Player Defeats/Victories
-Overall percentage of completion regarding all of the Pokémon caught and their distance away from level 100
...and any other system that the PU team decide to add.


This list is something that does not exist on the Runescape website in the way i envision it.
Runescape have various mini-games throughout their MMORPG, many of which are focused on very heavy PvP. On their website, they do not have a leaderboard directly concerning player verse player stats, instead there is stats on the best mini-game players. Which can be argued to be the same thing.
However, I say for Pokemon Universe there should be a more direct approach.
There should be leaderboards listing the best:
-Players with the highest 1v1 win/loss ratio
-Players with the highest 2v2 win loss ratio
-Players who stand at the top of the Tournament
-Players who have the highest battles won while taking minimal damage
...etc




Just like every other MMORPG out there, Pokemon Universe has the exact same potential to bring to the table what the rest of them do: Multiple levels of competitiveness. Which is exactly the thing that i believe keeps those true hardcore Gamers gaming.

If the Pokemon Universe team don't bother with such a complicated Leaderboard system it will, yes, be a very good/fun game regardless.
However, I truly believe that for an MMO to capture it's players, it really must provide them with that level of community immersion. For every player that just want's to play Pokemon Universe for the sole fact that playing a Pokémon MMO would be 'awesome', there is another player that wants to dive completely into the game and give it everything he/she has. I guarantee you that.

I say, whenever the PU team have the man-power or time to do it. It would be a priceless addition to the game if such a level of immersion would be implemented, and could be the cause of this game staying extremely healthy for well over a decade.




I hope this post has been read and taken to heart.
Regards,

Vaderico

Mr_Dark:
The idea of a leaderboard has been come up a couple of times, but this is the first time it's been posted with such effort and detail. So I approve :)

I think this is a good topic for further discussion about highscores and leaderboards.

Vaderico:
Yeah, I did browse the forums for similar topics. However all the posts i found were as brief as 'can we haz highscores'?
So I decided to make new thread explaining precisely my views and showing the visual examples that have been floating around my head :)

And i agree, any discussion about this topic i strongly encourage. Am waiting in anticipation for other peoples views :)

Arctus:
Wow, decent effort with the detail, im gonna finish reading it tomorrow though, but it looks interesting.

Tickles:
I actually like the detail, and have nothing to contribute to this thread. It looks like you touched on almost everything that was either discussed or said would be in the game. I lie=ke the guild one a lot, since I am a guild leader, and being on a leader board would bring more members to us.

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