Request Hand-pick and add leaderboard friends. View and Manage leaderboard through browser.

[jaredmorgs]

Now that Farsight have redesigned the leaderboard to remove the reliance on Facebook, it makes sense to add some richer functionality to the boards.

Many of us on the forum like to compete against a small group of players, and find it hard to wade through the pages and pages of scores to see where our friends are currently sitting.

Proposed Implementation

• Create a web-browsable version of the Farsight leaderboards for friends management.
• Allow a brief profile, limited to social media accounts and PAF username (if this differs from the FS leaderboard registered name) - this is mostly for accurate metadata searching on the leaderboards system.
• Allow users to hand-pick a selection of user names to compete against.
• Create a Farsight Friends leaderboard (name is arbitrary).
• Enable notification push on mobile devices to alert you when a friend has trumped your score on a table.
• Enable other notification services on other consoles to do the same.
• Have a weekly summary for the Farsight Friends leaderboard.

Why go to this trouble?

• Hand-curating a list of people you actually care about in the game will act like a mini-tournament each week.
• It will push you to strive for pinball excellence.
• The Farsight Friends you choose would not be inclined to cheat on tables, because it would mean their friends circle would rapidly decrease.

 

[Bonzo]

Being a self-imposed facebook hermit I'd love to see this being implemented!

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

On PS3 theres the ALL TIME/MONTHLY and WEEKL online score then you can choose to look at your friends scores by those categories. Id like to see A weekly/monthly all time trophy or belt that is transferable when scores are topped with a PM notifying you if your scores pas, but how do you compete with someone who is on your friends list wich they are competing against but you dont know?

 

[jaredmorgs]

Re: Hand-pick leaderboard friends. View and Manage leaderboard through browser.

Bump.

So what plans are in place for leader board Farsight Friends ?

Any response officially about this?

 

[MontanaFrank]

Being a self-imposed facebook hermit I'd love to see this being implemented

No Facebook for me either. Almost created account for TPA but decided not because of privacy issues. Would really like to see jaredmorgs idea implemented.