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RebelScum
March 3rd, 2006, 11:39 PM
Great site, guys! I just discovered it tonight, due to p1mpage in l All Luck l's gamertag (He's #1 right now in Backgammon).

I had an idea for a feature that I think would be pretty cool for your site. You could make a "Rare Achievements Leaderboard." This would be a page for rare, but attainable achievements, like Zuma's "Sharp Shooter." Currently, as far as we know, only one person has this achievement: OWD. This page would list all gamers that achieve it, in the order that they got it. This would serve as a sort of "elite" list.

There would also have to be some consensus as to what constitutes a "rare" achievement. Maybe if only 10, or 25 people have it, it's still "rare." After more people than the cutoff allows get it, it's no longer rare, and would be removed from the page, or maybe archived, so people can still see the first 25 people who got it.

I don't know if there's a way you can scan the xbox.com site automatically and figure out who has a certain achievement. Maybe you could limit it to members here on the site, who have their Live Gamertag listed with you. Then you could use their tag to check the site, and see what achievements they have. Maybe someone could write a script that does this automatically, I don't know. I guess it would be a chore to do it by hand.

Oh well, that's my idea. Take it or leave it!

Parasitic
March 3rd, 2006, 11:47 PM
There is a way to scan Xbox.com but you'd probably get sued for Denial of Service Attacks. :D Good idea but I'm not sure how it'd work. :(

NYTrigga101
March 4th, 2006, 12:47 AM
so you mean something like top360tag.com?

snopro4ever
March 4th, 2006, 09:18 AM
that is a nice site, i was just on there for an hour. it has alot of neat info.

NYTrigga101
March 4th, 2006, 09:52 AM
that is a nice site, i was just on there for an hour. it has alot of neat info.

yah but it doesn't update people's gamercards much that have my score or less

snopro4ever
March 4th, 2006, 10:03 AM
i agree

it shoudl be constant, update all every 1/2 hour or so.

Crono117
March 5th, 2006, 03:08 AM
Yeah and the other problem with top360tag is that it doesn't actually list eveyrone who has the achievement because yo uhave be online when you earn the achievements for that site to know. Not sure why, but I know people who have achievements like Dark Agent Single Co-op PDZ and aren't on the completion list on that site. I talked to them and they said they did it offline so I'm guessing that must be why, you ahve to be online for it to pick up on it.

Anyways, disregarding all that, I think this is an awesome idea if somehow it could be pulled off. Knowing how many people in the world have the really tough achievements is like the koolest thing EVER!

khytomer
March 11th, 2006, 12:34 PM
Anyways, disregarding all that, I think this is an awesome idea if somehow it could be pulled off. Knowing how many people in the world have the really tough achievements is like the koolest thing EVER!

No programming genius here, but how about small pictures that can be added to the the signature/avatar or some extra space on a post, that shows single hard achievements for a game, like Single Dark Agent for PDZ, Insane for Gun etc...the community would choose which achievement to take for a game and the monsters would implement this into the code(or something like that ;) ). That wouldn't be necessarily the original achievement pic, rather the game pic.

*here would be a gun-pic, thus showing everyone that I completed it on Insane*

snopro4ever
March 11th, 2006, 10:43 PM
whos to decide if a achieve is"rare" or not?