Worldwide, on-line hi-score and times listings?
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:56 pm
I'm not following this forum with attention recently, so forgive me if this has already been proposed (or maybe implemented?), but here goes:
I think that on-line hall of fame (would be best if it was connected to the game, so uploading and downloading hi-scores would be automatic) would be a refreshing touch to Rocks'n'Diamonds. For now, the hi-score list is a bit pointless – at least for me, as I am the only player listed there... so I'm not really motivated to play RnD any more. So I was thinking how to change it and I came up with that.
Another thing that I think would be nice is a time table. I mean, hi-scores based on time rather than on points. So there could be two hall of fames: the fastest players for a given level, and players who collected the most points.
Apart from these lists, living in a repository and in game's directory, there could be a summarising list on RnD website, featuring the players who completed the most levels and/or hold the most records.
Just for the consistency, the overall list could concentrate on the official levelsets (distributed with RnD + Contributions).
The biggest problem is that people may cheat for example by editing the levels, so the scores would need some way of validation (maybe based on md5 checksum of a .level file, or I don't know).
I don't think it's urgent, as most people seem to be fascinated with CEs for now, but I would be satisfied if this suggestion was put somewhere on the TODO list (or maybe it's already there, the list may be 1000-lines long for all I know). :-)
I think that on-line hall of fame (would be best if it was connected to the game, so uploading and downloading hi-scores would be automatic) would be a refreshing touch to Rocks'n'Diamonds. For now, the hi-score list is a bit pointless – at least for me, as I am the only player listed there... so I'm not really motivated to play RnD any more. So I was thinking how to change it and I came up with that.
Another thing that I think would be nice is a time table. I mean, hi-scores based on time rather than on points. So there could be two hall of fames: the fastest players for a given level, and players who collected the most points.
Apart from these lists, living in a repository and in game's directory, there could be a summarising list on RnD website, featuring the players who completed the most levels and/or hold the most records.
Just for the consistency, the overall list could concentrate on the official levelsets (distributed with RnD + Contributions).
The biggest problem is that people may cheat for example by editing the levels, so the scores would need some way of validation (maybe based on md5 checksum of a .level file, or I don't know).
I don't think it's urgent, as most people seem to be fascinated with CEs for now, but I would be satisfied if this suggestion was put somewhere on the TODO list (or maybe it's already there, the list may be 1000-lines long for all I know). :-)