Expanding the Scoreboard

[pdescobar]

MTA's scoreboard is pretty flexible and in addition to the "usual" stuff like player names/ids, pings, and money, I was thinking some other stuff could be added. So here is a list of random ideas I came up with. Obviously not all would work, but perhaps one or two might be interesting, either from this list or someone else's suggestion:

• Current Wanted Level; has the advantage of being small although I'm not sure how useful it would be since most of the people with high-levels are constantly fighting so you're seeing the level increase announcements regularly anyhow.
  
• Kills (or Kills & Deaths) during the current play session. A display of fighting ability that's more permanent than the wanted level or kill board which DMers might like; I wonder if it were implemented if people would reconnect to clear a bad ratio.
  
• Property earnings (per minute). Might increase property competition (which I think is a good thing) but might also encourage some extra begging (which is bad). It'd also be a pretty wide column since it is pretty common for people to hit six or seven digits.
  
• Current Bounties. Again, it would have to be quite big, but it might make bounty-hunting a little more common since it's right on the main scoreboard instead of having to use a special command; also helps identify the situation where someone "inherits" a bounty that was placed on another player who has now disconnected if the bounty system will still work the same way.
  
• "User Level." (for lack of a better name) Short text string (or perhaps an icon if that's possible; haven't looked too deeply into the scoreboard resource) which denotes whether each player is registered, regular, VIP, mod, admin, etc.
  

[Fry]

These are pretty cool.
Another thing I'd like to add is sorting by amount...
As in, you click the top of any category, and it lists in order from greatest/lower in that category

Also, maybe instead of a kills per session, we could have kills per minute, calculated by an average?

[Peter]

We're currently still using the scoreboard resource, where we'll eventually use a custom made one to suit our own needs. User ID's will return, as well as a number of other items on the list, but we'll have to look into that at a later stage of the development process.