There used to be the building blocks of 8man leaderboard here. What happened to it and are there plans to finish it?
I would be willing to moderate such a board, just need to catch up on things now that I'm off work
I'll try to ask again and make some better points on why we need it.
Not having leaderboards for categories leaves big holes in data. Having a leaderboard incentivizes runners to highlight their runs.
BKSilv3r made an interesting observation about this:
BKSilv3r: "Stupid fact from this document: Technically the "100% verifiable" 8 player D2LOD world record is still 2:25:59 from January 2019. Every run since is either missing a POV, was run on a private server with unfair advantages vs offical bnet, or had someone forget to party for the very last quest."
Document mentioned: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HqMdjX8SFEBSJRif4x0qZDA5QsK7OZQKvz7rtu7bgpo/edit#gid=1850098901
I know this game is dead, but could we at least save the history. Thank you.
Heyo,
there are multiple problems with the way the single player categories are set up and with limiting factors from speedrun.com which make this request not really possible to set up properly:
- The Classes (Sorc, Amazon, etc.) are set up as a GLOBAL variable which forces them to be in every main category being added. Solution: If we were to undo this, we would have to run through every single run again and set them up as variable for each main category individually
- Sub-Categories can not be set to specific number of players. Solution: This would mean we would have to add a main category for all possible groups: 2-8 players which will lead to a bit of a mess which could be hidden in Misc - I guess?
That is a lot of work for 1-2 groups that maybe still play 8-mans in LoD every other month?
This issue has been holding back d2lod categories since the beginning and would be nice to finally fix it. I'm willing to build the scripts necessary myself and have it fixed.
We can talk on discord at some point to make this happen - dont have much time during the week - so let me know when on the weekend works
I'll post the conclusion here so there's some kind of note of the talks.
I proposed a solution to setup the leaderboards the way d2r (speedrun.com/d2r) is setup so that we can have co-op and other new categories in a fairly simple category variable setup, but Teo was against the idea, because he doesn't like to mix together the players settings.
Teo offered to set it up in a hacky way where every main category gets their own variables. I wasn't willing to build a script that does that, because it simply isn't possible to manage hundreds of variables. Each category would require their own 7x class variables and so on...
Current compromise is to setup the co-op leaderboard under category extension instead and Teo promised to look into it.
