Just my quick 2 cents: using banks to store global ranking (top players) seems out of the question to me. That was never the intent of bank files, even if we want them to function in that fashion (believe me, I would love to be able to do global ranking). Several problems come to mind, the first of which is limited space in bank files compared to unknown number of players to track. Second is management/propagation of distributed global list (essentially you'd never be looking at the "whole picture"). I'm just about to get into banking on my maps so these comments are completely separate from any technical problems you might encounter...these are just based on my understanding of how banking currently works.
Making Global ranking in your maps is pretty cool and works well if its a bit popular. I am doing it since beta.D
Check my map called split td:
It also really helps the distribution of ranks if the map has lots of player slots.
I usually do only top 10 ranking. I dont know what is the bank size limits, but it just take to much calculation to do top ranking for more players....
edit: actually I could very simply make this trigger exercise using up my other maps, if no one working on this. (I would also add global ranking for harder levels.)
@nevjmac: Go
Just my quick 2 cents: using banks to store global ranking (top players) seems out of the question to me. That was never the intent of bank files, even if we want them to function in that fashion (believe me, I would love to be able to do global ranking). Several problems come to mind, the first of which is limited space in bank files compared to unknown number of players to track. Second is management/propagation of distributed global list (essentially you'd never be looking at the "whole picture"). I'm just about to get into banking on my maps so these comments are completely separate from any technical problems you might encounter...these are just based on my understanding of how banking currently works.
@jcraigk: Go
Making Global ranking in your maps is pretty cool and works well if its a bit popular. I am doing it since beta.D
Check my map called split td:
It also really helps the distribution of ranks if the map has lots of player slots.
I usually do only top 10 ranking. I dont know what is the bank size limits, but it just take to much calculation to do top ranking for more players....
edit: actually I could very simply make this trigger exercise using up my other maps, if no one working on this. (I would also add global ranking for harder levels.)