Global Leader Board… for everyone!
It has always annoyed me that Monopoly City Streets only offers a global leader board showing the top-10 scoring players. What about the rest of us? Everyone wants to know how well they’re doing… where they stand on the global leader board.
Now you can, with my global leader board: monopolib.appspot.com
monopolib.appspot.com
This tool is still in BETA, and there’s a number of improvements I intend to make, but for now, enjoy finally knowing how you compare to the rest of the MCS player-base.
Cheers!
monopolib
March 5, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Great Blog!……There’s always something here to make me laugh…Keep doing what ya do
October 30, 2009 at 11:42 am
I’d love to know where I was ranked right now. Can’t you just make it work so that every time a player types in their name, it deletes their old record and fetches their latest score from the server?
October 30, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Hi Ace,
I’ll consider that. Unfortunately if I fetched every one every time they were searched for, I might quickly use up the machine resources the global leader board runs on.
I still may be able to do it though.
I’m planning a very large update to the leader board, including data on 400,000 more players, so that’s probably the next thing you’ll see.
With that much larger list of users I need a better way to keep them up-to-date, so I’ll be working on that.
My real job is keeping me pretty busy this week though so it might be another week or so until I’m able to make any major changes.
Enjoy,
monopolib
October 23, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Shouldn’t it be Ran rather than Run in “Run out of opponents to hazard?”?
October 23, 2009 at 5:08 pm
So now we’ve got some grammar police in here eh?
To be honest, I’m not sure which is correct. Run sounds better to me, so I’ll keep it at that for now.
October 23, 2009 at 9:13 am
It worked yesterday when I added my player, but today when I search for myself, it won’t update and gives me a javascript error instead.
Line: 641
Char: 7
Object doesn’t support this property or method.
Yes I’m using Internet Explorer 7, but so what… that’s still the case with most internet users.
Also, it seems the last time the board updated everyone else was on the 10th. A lot can change in 2 weeks, especially in this game.
October 23, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Hi Ace,
What’s your username so I can test it out?
Also, has anyone else noticed trouble with IE 7?
I know the updating isn’t working quite as intended… the top of the leaderboard should stay relatively current, but the bottom is getting grossly neglected for updates.
I’m working on fixing that.
Cheers,
monopolib
October 23, 2009 at 7:23 pm
It finds my player, but doesn’t update my score.
My player name has a space in it, I get exactly the same error when I use the player “diddy d”
October 23, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I’m coming close to 2000th if placing matters. It seems to do this with all the players I search for.I think it’s just not fetching an updated score.
October 23, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Hi Ace,
It only fetches your score the first time your account is inserted, then I have a crawler that crawls over the data updating out-of-date entries.
Unfortunately the crawler is never choosing to update your score.
I’m working on a fix… stay tuned.
October 26, 2009 at 9:47 am
Brilliant… thanks for that.
October 21, 2009 at 8:08 am
Thank you ,an nice work on getting this info
October 20, 2009 at 11:36 pm
I have about 40M but it seems that i am not in the list… why?
I’ve searched for several players, but i’ve receive “player not found’ message….
October 21, 2009 at 3:16 am
Hey NoMoreFear,
Currently it should add your name when you search for it.
Try searching in all lower-case… I think there’s a bug that won’t find a name unless it’s all lower-case.
Cheers,
monopolib
October 23, 2009 at 4:25 pm
To help smooth that out you could just strtolower submitted usernames you know.
October 23, 2009 at 5:11 pm
heh thanks QOAL. I thought I had already fixed that, but I hadn’t pushed my fix to the server. It’s fixed now.
October 20, 2009 at 7:05 pm
A lot fewer people are playing this game than I thought…
October 20, 2009 at 7:35 pm
monopolib will soon integrate the complete dataset of all players we have found via our scan. I can tell, we got 391099 registered street owners total in the so far scanned areas.
October 21, 2009 at 3:19 am
Hey subby,
Currently my leaderboard only includes players who have been searched for, those who are in the game’s global leader board, and a small set of users I’ve manually uploaded.
Getty has found through his street scan nearly 400,000 users an I’ll try to add them all soon.
Cheers,
monopolib
October 20, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Omg I love this, I have always wanted to know where I am in the world. Thank you!
October 20, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Very, Very nice!
Maybe some google adsense on the side … to spice your bankaccount ….
Here my input:
1. Able to sort on column headers, I would like to see the one with the most money or the highest score or sort on name, sort on the amount of streets or bonuses or rent ….
2. Add the number of streets, number of hazards and number of bonuses + the sort on column header …
3. Page forward and backward … goto page 25 … type in number … last page, first page …
4. If possible, click on name to see his profile – don’t know if that is possible when you are not logged into the game?
ROOT
October 21, 2009 at 3:22 am
Hfriman, ROOT, glad you like it!
ROOT, great feature requests! You can already page through the list… see the links at the bottom. The other ideas are on my list of things to do. I’ll let you know when I make any major updates.
Cheers,
monopolib
October 20, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I’ll mention here the next things I’m working on for this global leader board:
- show player rent in leader board
- street leader board
- improved logic for keeping most relevant data up-to-date
Let me know any other ideas you have.
Stay tuned!