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   Urkel
   Member

   Hi,

   I was wondering if there was coded the functionality to retrieve the daily, weekly, monthly highscores in CocosLive:

   [request requestScores:(kQueryDay,kQueryWeek,kQueryMonth,....

   From my experience it gives a longer live to the games, since it's really hard to achieve a good position in the All Time highscores (kQueryAllTime) when the game has been running for a long time.

   Thanks.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   riq
   Key Master

   Weekly / Monthly are not implemented yet.
   Only QueryAllTime is implemented.
   See a previous post were this same topic was discussed.

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   Urkel
   Member

   Thanks for the reply.

   Sorry that I didn't check the information in previous post, today I'm lazy, maybe because in the middle of the summer I got a cold :(

   Anyway, Mochiads(https://www.mochimedia.com/developers/scores.html) is doing great job with the highscore records system, it could be a good model to follow.

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   riq
   Key Master

   this feature could be implemented in a easy way (remember that cocoslive uses bigtable, and not an standard relation DB) with absolute values.

   and by absolute I mean:
   - best scores of today (July 20) (and not from the last 24 hours)
   - best scores of this week (week number 28) (and not from the last 7 days)
   - best scores of this month (March) (and not from the last 30 days)

   do you think it is useful a feature like this one ?

   Posted 2 years ago #
5. 

   arian487
   Member

   Yes I like that feature actually. Doing it like "past 24 hours" or "past 30 days" doesn't appeal to me as a gamer as much as best score of the day or best score of march.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   GinsbergWright
   Member

   I have to disagree with arian487 - I think the only sensible way to implement this 'permanently' would be "past 24 hours" or "past 30 days". I think having it based on calendar day or calendar month will create inconsistency, because there will be a sudden score reset once per day, week, month.

   A user might submit his score and see that he is #1 for the day, only to find that the day reset occurred 5 minutes later and his score is gone. I think it only makes sense to use "previous 24 hours"... that way you would always have a queue of a day's worth of high scores to compare yours against, and your score would be guaranteed to have a place in the day's rankings for 24 hours.

   *** That said, I think that not having this type of feature is hurting us, and if it's quick to implement that way Riq, PLEASE go for it! I would love to have it.

   Posted 2 years ago #
7. 

   GinsbergWright
   Member

   ... just to reiterate - I really want you to go ahead with the simple way Riq.

   Posted 2 years ago #
8. 

   Codemattic
   Moderator

   also "high scores of the day" doesnt make as much sense as "previous 24-hour high scores" for worldwide scores since everybody's day starts at different times.

   Posted 2 years ago #
9. 

   arian487
   Member

   Yea sorry guys I didn't think of all those things. "Past 24 hours" type of deal makes more sense.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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