GCW Leaderboard



As announced by developers over the spring months of 2010, and promised during Fan Faire 2010, the Galactic Civil War now has a whole new incentive for participating - Leaderboards.

These leaderboards can be accessed using either the War IntelPad, War Terminal or Planning Table, and display large amounts of information about the players, guilds and cities that have contributed the most to the ongoing fight between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance.

Leaderboards
The leaderboards are split primarily into three categories, Player Leaderboards, Guild Leaderboards and City Leaderboards. Each category has a seperate leaderboard for Imperial and Rebel.

The leaderboards work within a time frame that runs from one Thursday at 19:00:00 GMT / 12:00:00 PDT to the following Thursday at 19:00:00 GMT / 12:00:00 PDT. This is concurrent with the GCW Faction rank updates and Player City Rank updates. At the end of each week, the "winners" are declared, and the leaderboards reset.
 * The top twenty five Players are shown in both the Rebel Player and Imperial Player Leaderboards.
 * The top ten Guilds are shown in both the Rebel Guild and Imperial Guild Leaderboards.
 * The top ten Cities are shown in both the Rebel City and Imperial City Leaderboards.

In order to appear on the Guild or City Leaderboard, the guild leader or mayor must first align their guild or city with either faction. Players joining a guild or a city in the middle of a GCW leaderboard period will start contributing to her Guild/City GCW lLeaderboard at the start of the next GCW Leaderboard period.

Rank Value


The leaderboards are sorted according to a "Rank Value", which is displayed as a percentage. On any leaderboard the top twenty five (players) or top ten (cities and guilds) have their Rank Values shown. In addition to this, the top pane of the leaderboard window will also show the player's personal, city or guild Rank Value in order for them to see where they fit into the table, and how far they need to go in order to join the "winners list". It is important to note that this value is not the percentage increase in your Faction rank, but instead an (almost) arbitrary figure used to sort the players into an order.

Calculating Rank Value
The SWG computers take the number of GCW points that you have scored (which can be seen on the Character Sheet) as well as the Factional Presence points you have scored (which are "hidden" numbers and cannot be viewed by players), and use these to calculate your rank valuein the following manner:


 * The GCW scores of the top 25 players are added up.
 * Your GCW score is shown as a percentage of this total.

For example: If between them, the top 25 players had scored 100,000 GCW points, and a player had scored 5,490 GCW points, then their rank value would be 5.49% - this is 5,490 expressed as a percentage of 100,000. If one of the top 25 players gains a further 20,000 GCW points (without anyone else scoring anything else) then the top 25 will now have a total of 120,000, and the player's rank value would fall to 4.575%, which is 5,490 expressed as a percentage of 120,000.

Note: Remember that factional presence also countributes to your rank value, so whilst you may think you only have a certain number of GCW points, you will likely have more if you have spent some time as a member of the Special Forces.

An identical method of calculation is used for the guild and city rank values, although only the top 10 guilds or cities are used in the leaderboard, and the scores of all guild members or citizens are used in the calculations.

Increasing Your Rank Value
Any type of GCW activity contributes to your rank value, in exactly the same way that you can influence the score of regions as part of the Planetary control game. Due to the manner in which a rank value is calculated as a proportion of a total value, your rank value cannot go up unless you do something about it!

Leaderboard Winners
Although the leaderboard shows the top 25 players and the top 10 guilds and cities, in order to "win" the leaderboard, you must either be one of the top 10 players, or a member of one of the top 5 guilds or cities. If you can achieve this, you are counted as a member of the "winners list" and as such are granted various rewards as detailed in the next section. You will only be a member of the "winners list" for one week, and access to some of the rewards may be removed from you. This is, of course, unless you make the list again the following week!

Rewards
For the two weeks following a player being in the "winners list", they are permitted access to the Imperial or Rebel WarRoom chat rooms - this time can obviously be extended if the player makes the "winners list" in following weeks.

Archive
As well as displaying the current active leadeboard, the War IntelPad, War Terminal or Planning Table can also give players the results from the leaderboards of the previou week, and the week before that (listed as "2 Weeks ago"). As well as this, the "winners list" of the Guild and City Leaderboards, i.e. the top five guilds and cities, from much further back can be displayed.