Guild Wars 2

I will talk in here a bit about how to introduce “Player Rankings” in PvE.

The HEROs of Tyria ranking system

There can be places in each zone good for displaying a “Character Statue”
This statue will be a larger version of the character model on a podium.
The statue can hold a flag with the guild tag and emblem if the character is in a guild, and on the podium, it will written the name of the character.

There can be 3 statues like this spread across one zone or even all in one place showing the top 3 ranked players in that zone
The ranking system involves the number of events played in each-hour in that specific zone plus the amount of participation in them
The statues will be updated every hour and will remain displayed till the next update in 60 min. If one player’s character is staying as a statue 3 h in a row, the podium will go from bronze to silver to gold.

When a character is on top for more than 10h, the podium transforms into a more sophisticated architecture plus fireworks and confetti shooting out

When a character gets his first statue, the podium will be made of stone so people who see it will know this guy has been now the first time in Top 3

The statues (rankings) will be zone specific, so we may see in different zones, different statues.
All Zones will have these 3 statues

The 5 racial Cities will display 3 statues of the Top 3 characters combining data from all racial specific zones

In Lion’s Arch, the top 3 players will be chosen using data from ALL the game zones in PvE

NOTE: Dungeon events will not count for these statues. They can add the same statue-ranking system for dungeons as well, showing in front of each dungeon entrance the 3 statues of ranked players in that specific dungeon.

Only in Lions Arch, can be displayed top 3 dungeon raiders statues based on all dungeons data.

This rankings system will be called The Dungeon Raiders

Here is an example of Player Statue from APB Reloaded

Note:
The difference between top 1, top 2 and top 3 characters will be done either through a slightly different podium model or/and a number 1,2,3 in front of the character name

The places in which the statues are placed in the zone will remain the same, but they will not be tided up to a specific rank which means that in each one of the 3 places, any character form top 3 can be displayed as follows:

1) if a character remains with the same rank for another hour

Some workers will come and start to build the new material podium (bronze>sliver; Silver>gold)
The gold podium will not change anymore if the character remains on top 1 until the 10h timeline when it will transform into a different one, more sophisticated.

2) if a character remains in Top 3 but with a different rank position

Some workers come and start to build the new model podium and update the number before the character’s name. The material will also change.

3) if a new character enters Top 3

Some workers come and detonate the old statue and after that they start to build the new one
- if the character is new to Top 3, the podium will be of Stone
- if the character has been in top 3 before, the podium will be in Bronze

The building process will be similar to building the bee hives in Queensdale after the bears event failed

So what you’re saying is, I gotta sit there and look at three gold farmers named “NSGWEG” and “NSGWWG” and “SDFWNG” who have been in the zone for 5 days. Eh…. I like your idea, but don’t find it appealing.

Havidos.9328:

So what you’re saying is, I gotta sit there and look at three gold farmers named “NSGWEG” and “NSGWWG” and “SDFWNG” who have been in the zone for 5 days.

You pointed out a good thing which will even help A-Net identify bots, don’t you think?

If we only base all our thinking only related to the 2% oulaws, then probably we don’t need to even live our lives because they will always win: more money, more fame, more girls, more cars, more more.