Leaderboard Bug? (or: I've lost WiredWorm!)

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:29 pm 0

OK, in the other thread, I noticed that PVB and WiredWorm had passed me, so I tried to beat them... I managed to get a best 'new score' and
when I looked at the leaderboards, I saw this:

WiredWorm was nowhere to be seen!

So I changed the filter:

and there he was!

I checked my friends list:

and WiredWorm was still my friend

but not online...

I thought: maybe the leaderboards's "Friends" filter only shows my online friends:

but that is not true, while I can definitely see my online friends, and the 'Friend request pending' people...
And I can see some offline friends... For example, Jhaymes was not online, but I could see him; I could not see WiredWorm in the "Friends" leaderboard however

while he belongs to my Friend list...

I hope this doesn't put a big damper on the celebrations tonight...

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:41 pm 0

Well, not really, all that kind of aggregation happens behind the scenes and we just display what we're given when we ask for a filtered list. We know there's no bugs in the leaderboard code or we'd've had our @rses handed us at cert

. It's the same reason i wasn't unduly worried this morning when the leaderboard took a while to start up

.

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:50 pm 0

Ah, OK then. But I think you still need to kick the leaderboard managers/adminstrators because this was the leaderboard in my first post:

And then a few minutes later:

PVB has disappeared too!

So give them a big kick from me, OK?

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:53 pm 0

How many friends do you have in your list ?

rockwaldo · Post by **rockwaldo** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:59 pm 0

PVB has disappeared from mine as well oddly

Gillorient · Post by **Gillorient** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:24 pm 0

rockwaldo wrote:PVB has disappeared from mine as well oddly

PVB on sister's PC:

Is it because my 360 is now turned off?

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:16 pm 0

gilesgoat wrote:How many friends do you have in your list ?

I have 54 friends in my list...

If I go the the Games Tab -> XBox Live Arcade -> Space Giraffe -> View Friends Leaderboard I can see everyone.
At the moment of writing, the "View Friends Leaderboard" displayed 21 entries for me.

In the game however, I only spot 17 of the 21 friends in the "All time - Friends" leaderboard, and "Weekly - Friends" leaderboard. I only see 16 in the "Hardcore - Friends" leaderboard...

I know that the XBLA game "Band of Bugs" was released with a crashing leaderboard bug when you had over 50 friends in your friends list... Let's hope this is not something similar...

DM2 · Post by **DM2** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:19 pm 0

Didn't Marble madness have a friends list leaderboard bug as well?

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:36 pm 0

There were odditys in the Leaderboards for Marble Blast Ultra IIRC..

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:37 pm 0

I've removed some of my friends so that my total is now 49, but the effect is still the same... So it's not a magical '50 friend bug'...

I did notice that the 'right button' doesn't work when I am filtering by 'Friends'; the 'left button' brings me the last of the list (wraps around because it is 'previous page'), but the 'right button' does nothing... If I am filtering on My Score, or the other non-Friend filter, I can use the right button (it jumps to the next page)...

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:01 pm 0

Usually takes at least a week for WiredWorm to drop off the leaderboard.

*coat*

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:05 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:Usually takes at least a week for WiredWorm to drop off the leaderboard.

Oooh, you cheeky young scamp!!

Alas by a strange turn of fate I also received the keys for my new house today so I had to shoot off this afternoon to build a big 'list of what must be done before we move in'. This means i've not been able to play SG for the last 2 or 3 hours.

A worst of all I return home to find the kids are watching telly so I can't get my fix. Damn then!!!

Post by **Muttley** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:58 pm 0

I've noticed an oddity as well in that fuwafuwa doesn't appear in my Friends list even though she should.

I expect it some kind of weird aggregation delay at the MS database end. Maybe they should move from using MS SQL to something a bit more "enterprisey".

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:13 pm 0

I know quoting yourself isn't very polite

CarlBillen wrote:I did notice that the 'right button' doesn't work when I am filtering by 'Friends'; the 'left button' brings me the last of the list (wraps around because it is 'previous page'), but the 'right button' does nothing... If I am filtering on My Score, or the other non-Friend filter, I can use the right button (it jumps to the next page)...

I've noticed that now, while more friends have played the game, I have 3 pages of friends on the leaderboard when the Friends selection is there... (WiredWorm has reappeared, PVB is still missing). The 'right button' (goto next page) works as longs as it is not the first, or the last page when the Friends Filter is selected. It is weird that it does work on the 'My Score' and "Overall Score' pages without any problems (I can go to the first and last page there, and the 'next page'/'right button' works correctly...)

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:20 pm 0

I've noticed the same thing Carl. Much oddness.