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[Vykranth]

If you wouldn't mind adding me to the list, some reason I can't find an "add gamertag"button :p.

GT: Timan25

Is not there a 250 players limit on custom leaderboards on mygamercard.net? We are actually 250.

[Mathachew Veteran]

Oh snap! NOOOOOOOOOOO

[neoadorable]

thought they lifted the limit?

congrats on the 36K vyk, indeed time to move onwards to 40.

kick, thanks for posting the car pic, i now know ynnoj isn't missing out on much...literally. but all kidding aside, i'm glad the lad's ok and hope he gets a new car soon.

[Guest]

thought they lifted the limit?

congrats on the 36K vyk, indeed time to move onwards to 40.

kick, thanks for posting the car pic, i now know ynnoj isn't missing out on much...literally. but all kidding aside, i'm glad the lad's ok and hope he gets a new car soon.

But she was my baby :cry:

[neoadorable]

i know how you feel man - you can really get intimate with cars...thank goodness for dual exhausts! :x

where's the insurance money? you need to move on and find a new honey.

[Guest]

They are still in the process of decided who's at fault, and whether or not to write the car off.

It's been a fortnight since the accident now, so I'm starting to become a little ****ed off.

[Rookas]

They are still in the process of decided who's at fault, and whether or not to write the car off.

It's been a fortnight since the accident now, so I'm starting to become a little ****ed off.

That type of thing takes forever. I was in a wreck with a drunk driver 9 months ago and I'm finally about to see a settlement, and that was actually pretty quick compared to friends that have been in wrecks. The good news is i'm about to be Oprah rich.

[Guest]

That type of thing takes forever. I was in a wreck with a drunk driver 9 months ago and I'm finally about to see a settlement, and that was actually pretty quick compared to friends that have been in wrecks. The good news is i'm about to be Oprah rich.

I understand the process can take a long time, but the information the insurance company has held hasn't been relayed to me as soon as it could have been. As a result, it's causing unnecessary delays.

Not to mention the majority of their call centre staff are Indian. Really doesn't help calm customers when you have to spell every other word.

[neoadorable]

wanted to say two weeks wasn't that long of a time, especially since the car took some serious damage.

and rookas, looks like you'll be buying us the entire 2009 release schedule eh? muhahahahha.

[DR3AMxCATCHER]

Jumped about 400GS in the past two days with CoD5 (about to have 1000/1000)

[danisflying527]

Anybody know how to add yourself?

I've signed up with the website and everything

could you add danisflying527 plz

[Mathachew Veteran]

Jumped about 400GS in the past two days with CoD5 (about to have 1000/1000)

Have fun with Heart of the Reich!

[fhpuqrgrpgvirzhpujbj]

I have an account there, how do I add myself?

[neoadorable]

you need to sign up to My Gamer Card, or just get leaderboard founder PabUK's attention...

and welcome once you do!

[DR3AMxCATCHER]

Have fun with Heart of the Reich!

Already beat the game on Vet. :)

[PabUK Veteran]

Bad news peeps, there is indeed a 250 user limit on custom leaderboards. I never thought we'd reach it but we have!

I've made a post on the mygamercard.net forums asking if there are any plans to increase the cap. However, seeing as the limit has been at 250 for a loooong time now, I'm not holding out much hope there. So, the question is, how shall we deal with this situation?

My own personal suggestion would be to prune a number of users from the very bottom of the table every so often. Unfortunate as that would be, this is a gamerscore leadboard after all so it seems somewhat fair that those with higher scores should be allowed in instead. What do you think? I'm open to hearing other suggestions before I go ahead.

[Mathachew Veteran]

I thought the same, but that doesn't see to be fair. However, I'm all for pruning inactive players that are on the list, but how are you able to gauge activity without viewing individual profiles?

[Mathachew Veteran]

Already beat the game on Vet. :)

Congrats! I found the last mission to be too easy on Veteran, but Heart of the Reich on Veteran is the epitome of retardation in video games :D

[neoadorable]

Pab, that would be cruel. i believe in first come first served, unless as mathachew said we can tell if someone is no longer playing. otherwise leave it as is.

[Guest]

Couldn't you just create another leaderboard and combine the two? Not literally, but you know what I mean.

[PabUK Veteran]

I thought the same, but that doesn't see to be fair. However, I'm all for pruning inactive players that are on the list, but how are you able to gauge activity without viewing individual profiles?

You can't, and I'm not sure I value someone with a very low score over someone who might just be taking a break. It would be too difficult to judge.

Pab, that would be cruel. i believe in first come first served, unless as mathachew said we can tell if someone is no longer playing. otherwise leave it as is.

That seems less fair to me than pruning. I don't think a person who has been on the leadboard for a while yet only has say 100 points is as deserving of a spot as someone new who has thousands and would therefore likely be actively taking part in the group. If people were dropped they would be welcome back in at the next round of pruning, given they have increased their points enough.

Couldn't you just create another leaderboard and combine the two? Not literally, but you know what I mean.

That just wouldn't be practical. Though you could quickly work out the combined totals of the two groups, comparing yourself to other positions would no longer be realistically possible. And after all, that's what it's all about.

[DR3AMxCATCHER]

Congrats! I found the last mission to be too easy on Veteran, but Heart of the Reich on Veteran is the epitome of retardation in video games :D

Agreed, it was the stupidest but you know what, whatever. Game is not all that great but the ending was pretty good/sad

[neoadorable]

never thought the leaderboard was actually competitive, but it's up to you Pab. but how do you set the threashold?

[PabUK Veteran]

I don't mean to make it sound so serious, because obviously it's all just for fun. But we've got a problem (hitting the user limit) that I think needs a solution. Leaving things as-is would mean the leaderboard no longer represents the Neowin members with the best gamerscore, but merely those who signed up first. Over time that's going to leave an awful lot of people out and the (friendly!) competition will stagnate.

Thinking about my own suggestion more, there's obvious problems there too. How many people do you prune? What's to stop them coming back before someone else? How often do you do it?

To this end, it seems like manual management is the only way to go. I propose that those who want to join the leaderboard post their gamertag and current gamerscore in this topic (or PM me the same). I could then verify their score on Xbox.com, and if they have a higher gamerscore than the person who is currently #250 on the leaderboard, they take their place on the list. This seems the most fair way of doing things, with the only downside being the list might sometimes not be updated for a while.

Still happy to hear opinions on all this before I make a move. :)

[Vykranth]

To this end, it seems like manual management is the only way to go. I propose that those who want to join the leaderboard post their gamertag and current gamerscore in this topic (or PM me the same). I could then verify their score on Xbox.com, and if they have a higher gamerscore than the person who is currently #250 on the leaderboard, they take their place on the list. This seems the most fair way of doing things, with the only downside being the list might sometimes not be updated for a while.

Another possibility would be to crop members who have been banned from Neowin. After all, this is the Neowin leaderboard, if one has been banned from the forum, they don't belong to the leaderboard.

The problem is that that's going to be difficult to know who is who in the leaderboard: my bet is that the gamertag index is not complete.

And emptying the leaderboard from all its members and re-add ourselves would remake the first come first served problems ...

I thought about having two leaderboards: the Neowinians with more than 10K points, and the ones with less than 10K points and move the people from one to the other once they get promoted but that would be cumbersome and unfair to the people in the lower leaderboard. It's not because one has less than 10K that they are not good gamers.