Thanks to MCroft and LadyCFII, we have new and improved Leaderboards for VV2.

MCroft has been of tremendous help and without him this wouldn't have happened. We love the new look and sorting!

LadyCFII deleted all of the cheaters and added new code to prevent NEW cheaters in the future!!! WOW!

Check them out!

Congratulations!

The board is great, Barbara and McCroft do nice work.

Wow -- the new leaderboards are great! I like being able to change how the stats are sorted. (Might give me more motivation to actually try and get on there one of these days ).

-- jen

Wow! Those are so great!!! Thanks so much Mcroft and LadyCFII!! I really appreciate all the work that you both put into them. They look so good. A job very well done!

Truly wonderful! Thanks!

the new leaderboards are awesome! will the vv1 leaderboards be modified as well?

We haven't decided whether or not to do the other leader boards yet. The VV1 leader board has had the 'cheater improvement' since last year.

would it help if we beg? how about a bribe?

Hmmmmm....if I remember correctly, you've tried that before!

that was for the seahorse info

this is much much more important, therefore the bribes will be bigger this time...and i suspect more people will be willing to contribute...

A request and a question:

Could the page indicate whether the sort is today, last 2 weeks, or all time? I spotted the change to the dynamic URL, but indicating the range on the page would be easier for most people.

When does the day start? Is it the last 24 hours of data? Is it midnight to midnight of the server? (if yes, what time zone?)

I was thinking that could be done. The sorted by string is already sorta long, though. Might need to rearrange things a bit.



It is a dynamic last 24 hours. It updates when you fetch the page.

hello everyone: where can i find the leader board?

Look on the left side of the forums and you'll see the links to all of the leader boards.

... Thank you so very much....

I'm really glad to see the new leaderboards with the various sorts. Kudos and Thanks to MCroft and LadyCFII!!!

It was frustrating that although I had high points in all categories, unless I got that rare special event to add an elder, I'd never make the leaderboard. Using the log file to get the event seemed like cheating to me, so I was resigned to never seeing any of my tribes on the board.

I've read all the posts about the new sorts, and I guess I am the only one who doesn't understand how they work. My first tribe has statistics showing #1 in several categories, but is not listed on the leaderboard. The tribes stats are much higher than tribes listed. Also two of my tribes both show #1 in the same category in statistics and they are thousands of points apart. Does number one not mean number one?

What am I missing??? Help!!
Thanks.

The game considers only some entries "active", but the web page shows all records (unless you change the period by pressing the "Today" or "Last Two Weeks" buttons), which usually explains the differences.

The web page sorts based on the column header buttons and goes back to the database to refresh the data when you change columns. Some categories are likely to be quite full, such as Stews, which will almost always have 100 people with "18" in it. You may not show up in those.

I don't know exactly what happens inside the application, so I can't help with that question.

Thanks for the answer. I really feel dense but I still don't understand.Perhaps I wasn't clear in my question.I'll give an example. My first tribe has 143,018,442 tech points as of my last update an hour ago. Hours played 2517, Babies 2580 and events 122. Why doesn't this tribe show up on any sort, with any time period in any of these categories? I understand that with tech points, since there isn't room for all numbers, a leading "2" may have been dropped from all the tribes that made it to the leader boards but what about the other categories?

You are not the only one with over 100 million tech points who has this problem. It may be a limitation or problem with the leader board code, and Arthur is investigating the situation.

Love the new leaderboards too......but I am still curious why I cant seem to get on it? Is it because I didnt buy the game from LDW? ( i didnt know about this before I bought it.....so i bought it from the first place I could find it )

The leader board is open to all players of Virtual Villagers, regardless of where the game was purchased. If you believe that your stats should appear on the leader board, please send me a private message listing them, and I'll have a look.

Ill send a note next. Im not sure how its ranked, but i know I have or have had games with higher numbers and it doesnt show up. Ill send you my highest one and see whats up

And thanks

( not that it really matters, I am just curious )

My scores aren't showing up on the leader board for VV2

My one tribe "Nami" has the following
Tech points 49,575,301 shows as 14th place when I update my scores
Babies 2010 - shows as 19th place

My other tribe "Samu" has 45,209,785 tech points 18th place.


The leaderboards just are making sense to me and what is brought back into the game when you refresh your scors.

I don't think it updates very often.
It's showing I have 2400 babies when I have over 3200.

There is definitely something going on with it. LadyCFII is checking it out to see if she can figure it out.

Thanks

Thank you.

I just past 1st place for babies but I'm afraid to see what that person really has when it's fixed.
lol

My tribe is Angel, I have 2607 babies at no:4. I don't show on the leadership board. I'm wondering why!

On my stats page for "hours played" it says i am ranked at 46 but when i look on highscores i clearly ain't!

The in-game rankings are calculated differently than the positions on the leader board are. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I need all of the information on your game's stats page, as well as the version of the game you're playing (from the menu screen), and your tribe name(s) before I can begin to tell you why you're not on the leader board (and that's best done in a private message).

I don't seem to have my name on vv2 leaderboard, yet I have over 6000 babies and mine says i'm no1. Can you help on that please?

My name is not on the leader board and I had over 300 events LadyCFII said it is some sort of _bug_.

I can't access the VV1 leaderboard. I have tried two computers, and two different browsers on each. I've cleared the cache each time. This is one of the errors I keep getting:

;Database Error : select * from games_scores order by babies_made desc,Can't open file: 'games_scores.MYD'. (errno: 145)

Just tried myself. Got the same error. Give BB some time, she'll fix'r right up!

Sorry...I was working on other stuff and didn't see this until just a few minutes ago. I've repaired it, and it should be up now.

It works now. thanks.

Nope. Can't submit stats on VV1 or on PT for the past 3 days now, can't access the online leader boards either. : (

If it helps the onlines say database error and the ingames say unable to update, are you online? (which yes, I am)

that does happen sometimes, just try again later

kudos to the person(s) fixing the statistics! It's the first time, since Jan 4th, I've been able to, successfully, update my stats!

Your timing was probably just "unlucky." The server has, indeed, had more problems than normal this month, but it has been up more than it has been down. Each time it goes down, I've repaired any problems and gotten the stats functions working as soon as I see that they aren't responding.

That's likely it. My luck has had a run on "mishaps" lately. (No pun intended!) I had put it off to problems with our server, which we have had too, as we run and maintain our own.