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Leaderboards Bug (conflicting rankings)

My ranking displayed by the separate section at the bottom is not the same as the rest of the list. I don't even belong at that rank.
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Posted 18 months ago by geoffreak Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • there's a thread about this somewhere... the problem is that the code is counting the "shared" ranks (e.g. 2 people are tied for 3rd) when in the list of 10/page vs. when it is show at the bottom of the list.
    Posted 18 months ago by Another Chris Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's not quite that, I think.  It seems almost like absolute numbers and relative rankings are being refreshed separately, so sometimes your new rank is shown with your old numbers.
    Posted 18 months ago by larky lion Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Could possibly be both.  The existing bug (http://beta.glitch.com/forum/bugs/3749/) is still there.  But I think that there's something new going on too.  I also sometimes see discrepancies in the values that are different from the previous behavior, but I didn't really know whether I was seeing a bug or caching.
    Posted 18 months ago by Lelu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It is quite that.

    Game closed. any data lag issues presumably worked through the system.

    On Achievements Leaderboard, at the bottom of the first page after the top "10", I am shown at #16.

    I go to page 2 (11th-20th highest players, not rankings), and am still not there.

    I go to page 3 (21th-30th highest ranked players), and see myself as the 2nd player on the list, the 22nd player listed, and i am ranked 22. But in that paginated view, when there's a tie, the numbers "jump", so there are a few "22"s and then right to "26".

    So that's how the paginated part works, skipping #s when there's a tie.

    If you carefully counted and didn't skip numbers when there is a tie you would see where that 16 came from.

    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8, 8, 8
    9, 9, (11s)
    10, (13)
    11 (14)
    12 (15)
    13 (16)
    14, 14, 14, 14 (17s)
    15 (21)
    16 (22) <---- ME
    Posted 18 months ago by Another Chris Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Good catch, Another Chris.
    Posted 18 months ago by Ximenez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bump. I found several bug threads about this but it's still a problem. E.g. traveller's leaderboard claims I'm #21 but I'm really closer to #140.
    Posted 14 months ago by Snokatt Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is still very much an unresolved problem. Not only is there a descrepancy between the rank displayed next to my name and my rank on the list, but the number of achievements does not appear to have updated in days for me. I have something like another 17 achievements which are not counted.
    Posted 14 months ago by Melting Sky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If I donate to giant Mab it doesn't show my new amount of favour points.......anyone having that problem too?
    Don't know my points now......
    Posted 14 months ago by RaceEend Subscriber! | Permalink
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    Posted 14 months ago by Friend Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The problem described in the thread linked above still exists -- to quote from that thread "the highlighted "Your Rank" display is showing your rank within the population of distinct rank positions, rather than within the population of all eligible players."

    And as the population of the game grows, this discrepancy becomes more and more significant for the Streets Traveled and Achievements leaderboards -- the "your rank" reported is orders of magnitude off.  For those two leaderboards, turning off the "your rank" display would be better than leaving it as it is (though I'd rather it be fixed!).
    Posted 13 months ago by Fnibbit Subscriber! | Permalink