[Feature Pitch] Add leaderboards for official servers with various statistics

[bunniewormy]

A pretty big feature pitch, but it would be nice if we could get it for f2p - I suggest adding leaderboards for official servers, and add a new button to the main menu - "Official Leaderboards". It would incentivise people to play more and it would be interesting to look at some statistics. Some servers in Classic had such leaderboards:

You could sort leaderboards by:

• Global / Region (EU, US, AUS) then
• All gamemodes / Specific Gamemode (TDM, CTF, TTH) then
• All classes / Specific class (Archer, Builder, Knight) then
• Global (some kind of points?) / Specific Statistics (Flag Captures, Kills, Kills by arrows, etc.)

Bad graph:

For example, you could sort EU>TDM>Knight>Kills, or Global>CTF>Archer>Deaths by arrows, or EU>Global>All classes>KDR. Basically anything that anyone wants, sorry for bad explanation.

For 'truly global' sorting, you would probably need to bring back points (experience points?): Default sorting probably should be Global>All gamemodes>All classes>Points

KAG Classic had points, I don't know the exact formula, but you could assign points to certain statistics, and then count them all or something like that (for example, flag cap 50 points, kill 2 points, double kill 8 points, spike kill 10 points, death -1 points - just examples)

I would suggest tracking the following stuff (reminder that each of them could be sorted by class, so need to track the class as well).

• Kills (including: kills by sword/pickaxe/arrow, stomp, bomb, mines, kegs, spikes, fire, boulders, drowning, fall damage, pushing to void, riding through someone with siege, ballista bolts and catapults stone, exclude teamkills)
• Deaths (including suicides and deaths by stuff mentioned in Kills, probably should exclude deaths in building time)
• KDR
• Flag Captures
• Wins (don't count if team was swapped 3minute before finished game)
• Losses
• Coins Gained (and then you could split way of gaining coins, combat/building etc)
• Mats Gained (by yourself - chopped logs, mined stone and gold)
• Mats Used
• Blocks Digged (split into dirt/stone/wood blocks/etc)
• Blocks Constructed (split again, stone/wood/ladders/etc)
• Damage (split same way u split kills)
• Heals (hearts)
• Blocks travelled (while inputting)
• Hours played (don't count spectator)

I also suggest adding a reward for the best Knight, Archer and Builder in each region - a special badge and perhaps even a coloured name? If the leaderboards are going to be for all offi servers, the best players deserve more recognition than just a badge

[1bardesign]

This pitch has received a $100 bounty - but we'll need to discuss staging that into multiple actual tasks.

If anyone has a split they think would work, they're welcome to suggest it! The one suggested on discord was:

• Add in-game per-server stat tracking (using config files most likely)
• Share leaderboard data between official servers (some kind of tcpr solution)
• Show official leaderboards externally (website aggregating the official server stats)

The specific stats to measure also needs to be agreed; the list above from bunnie is a sensible starting point.

[ghost]

per server config files? you would have to make new interafces to display the real time data seems out of scope. I think just make a centralized server with a simple api that aggregates and sorts all the incoming data from official servers and has a good frontend

[1bardesign]

I figured splitting the concerns would be good, but if it was to be tackled as a single solution that'd be fine too. In that case, ideally it'd be open source and compatible with other hosts' servers as well, so they could run their own leaderboards.

[ghost]

working on this

[Harrison-Miller]

Work is almost done with the first draft http://staging.kagstats.com/#/leaderboards https://github.com/Harrison-Miller/kagstats https://trello.com/b/WR8dcqD7/kag-stats-https-githubcom-harrison-miller-kagstats

Hopefully releasable sometime in august.

[1bardesign]

@Harrison-Miller has got http://kagstats.com/ hooked up to the official servers - going to close this now, verra get in touch please about the bounty 💖

Please forward issues with kagstats to the appropriate repo!