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eFKac on 20 August 2014

Finally got some trophies lately after a hiatus. Thanks for the update!



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Wonktonodi on 20 August 2014

I've been on truetrophies for a little while. I think I even asked many month ago if anyone else was on the site or interested. They have some interesting tools there even for groups but nothing that I know of like our platinum league. So for the true trophy score games like soundshapes can really bump it up.
It also has some cool stats that you really couldn't do here like days in a row getting trophies. busiest days. Games 100% with out unowned dlc.
Then again if enough of us do go over we could request features be added that we like and they might be able to make it happen.



Arcturus on 20 August 2014

Hey guys,
Due to the limited amount of free time I have as of late, I've been considering some changes to the league. I'll detail them below and would love to hear your thoughts on them.

At the moment, I have to manually record and report trophies values (including new platinum trophies) for 140 members. This usually takes 2-3 hours to do each week. All of this data is presented in the various tables and lists you see each week:
Main Leaderboard
Season Leaderboard
Platinum Trophy Leaderboard
Busiest Members list
Recent Platinum Trophies earned

Gathering the trophy values for 140 members takes about 50% of 2-3 hours needed to perform the update. This part isn't too bad and can go quickly. Once I have this data gathered, I can then identify who has earned a new platinum trophy. Once I have this list, I have to look up each individual on psnprofiles and determine which new platinum trophy they have earned. If it is a platinum trophy that has not been earned by someone else in the league, I then have to make my way over to playstationtrophies.org and look up the average rated difficulty. It's a time consuming process that is quite prone to errors.

Proposed Changes
- drop membership to below 100 members. This can easily be done by removing those that haven't earned a new trophy in the past few months and by removing those that no long visit the site (These removals are long overdue)
- Have the focus of the league be on the seasonal leaderboard, instead of the main leaderboard (both leaderboards will remain though). The seasonal leaderboard is more interesting I find, since the ranking are more dynamic.
- do away with recording platinum trophies and the platinum leaderboard. I hate to see these two go as it 1) shows us which platinum trophies are being earned, and 2)rewards members who spend time earning more difficult platinum trophies. However, as mentioned above, it's a time consuming and error-prone process to record this data each week.
- and finally, replace the platinum leaderboard with a leaderboard from truetrophies.com. Members can choose to join truetrophies and the VGChartz truetrophies leaderboard (not setup yet). Although not perfect, hopefully this leaderboard can replace the platinum leaderboard in giving credit to those members who spend time earning more difficult trophies.

With these changes I hope the weekly league update will become a sub 1-hour task, instead of a 2-3 hours task.

Thoughts?



veritaz on 20 August 2014
Arcturus said:

Hey guys,
Due to the limited amount of free time I have as of late, I've been considering some changes to the league. I'll detail them below and would love to hear your thoughts on them.

At the moment, I have to manually record and report trophies values (including new platinum trophies) for 140 members. This usually takes 2-3 hours to do each week. All of this data is presented in the various tables and lists you see each week:
Main Leaderboard
Season Leaderboard
Platinum Trophy Leaderboard
Busiest Members list
Recent Platinum Trophies earned

Gathering the trophy values for 140 members takes about 50% of 2-3 hours needed to perform the update. This part isn't too bad and can go quickly. Once I have this data gathered, I can then identify who has earned a new platinum trophy. Once I have this list, I have to look up each individual on psnprofiles and determine which new platinum trophy they have earned. If it is a platinum trophy that has not been earned by someone else in the league, I then have to make my way over to playstationtrophies.org and look up the average rated difficulty. It's a time consuming process that is quite prone to errors.

Proposed Changes
- drop membership to below 100 members. This can easily be done by removing those that haven't earned a new trophy in the past few months and by removing those that no long visit the site (These removals are long overdue)
- Have the focus of the league be on the seasonal leaderboard, instead of the main leaderboard (both leaderboards will remain though). The seasonal leaderboard is more interesting I find, since the ranking are more dynamic.
- do away with recording platinum trophies and the platinum leaderboard. I hate to see these two go as it 1) shows us which platinum trophies are being earned, and 2)rewards members who spend time earning more difficult platinum trophies. However, as mentioned above, it's a time consuming and error-prone process to record this data each week.
- and finally, replace the platinum leaderboard with a leaderboard from truetrophies.com. Members can choose to join truetrophies and the VGChartz truetrophies leaderboard (not setup yet). Although not perfect, hopefully this leaderboard can replace the platinum leaderboard in giving credit to those members who spend time earning more difficult trophies.

With these changes I hope the weekly league update will become a sub 1-hour task, instead of a 2-3 hours task.

Thoughts?


I'm down for every one of the changes. You put a lot of time into doing this and it's grealy appreciated, anything that can make is easier is fine by me. 



eFKac on 21 August 2014

^^Same here, we appriciate what you are doing and it surely it absolutely very time consuming, so do what you have to, removing the inactive members is a no brainer anyway, and I agree that the season leaderboard is more interesting as the overall leaderboard, especially at the higher spots is very stagnant. You should absolutely keep it though, it's still fun to check who is higher than you overall and vice-versa.



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Tbone on 21 August 2014
Arcturus said:

Hey guys,
Due to the limited amount of free time I have as of late, I've been considering some changes to the league. I'll detail them below and would love to hear your thoughts on them.

At the moment, I have to manually record and report trophies values (including new platinum trophies) for 140 members. This usually takes 2-3 hours to do each week. All of this data is presented in the various tables and lists you see each week:
Main Leaderboard
Season Leaderboard
Platinum Trophy Leaderboard
Busiest Members list
Recent Platinum Trophies earned

Gathering the trophy values for 140 members takes about 50% of 2-3 hours needed to perform the update. This part isn't too bad and can go quickly. Once I have this data gathered, I can then identify who has earned a new platinum trophy. Once I have this list, I have to look up each individual on psnprofiles and determine which new platinum trophy they have earned. If it is a platinum trophy that has not been earned by someone else in the league, I then have to make my way over to playstationtrophies.org and look up the average rated difficulty. It's a time consuming process that is quite prone to errors.

Proposed Changes
- drop membership to below 100 members. This can easily be done by removing those that haven't earned a new trophy in the past few months and by removing those that no long visit the site (These removals are long overdue)
- Have the focus of the league be on the seasonal leaderboard, instead of the main leaderboard (both leaderboards will remain though). The seasonal leaderboard is more interesting I find, since the ranking are more dynamic.
- do away with recording platinum trophies and the platinum leaderboard. I hate to see these two go as it 1) shows us which platinum trophies are being earned, and 2)rewards members who spend time earning more difficult platinum trophies. However, as mentioned above, it's a time consuming and error-prone process to record this data each week.
- and finally, replace the platinum leaderboard with a leaderboard from truetrophies.com. Members can choose to join truetrophies and the VGChartz truetrophies leaderboard (not setup yet). Although not perfect, hopefully this leaderboard can replace the platinum leaderboard in giving credit to those members who spend time earning more difficult trophies.

With these changes I hope the weekly league update will become a sub 1-hour task, instead of a 2-3 hours task.

Thoughts?

Personally i would lose all interest on being on this if you take out the plat leaderboard. 

Perhaps you can try to just cut it to top 50 and see how that works for a few weeks.



 

Arcturus on 21 August 2014
Tbone said:
Arcturus said:

Thoughts?

Personally i would lose all interest on being on this if you take out the plat leaderboard. 

Perhaps you can try to just cut it to top 50 and see how that works for a few weeks.

I appreciate the honest feedback. What is it about the platinum leaderboard that keeps you interested in the league?



dj2one on 22 August 2014

I'm cool with whatever you choose to do. I mean the league would not run without you. You have already done a ton of work thanks for that.

I don't know how true trophies works but if that keeps the plat leader board going I'm for it even though I don't earn nearly as many plats as most of these guys. I do like how the league shows who's getting what plats.



Esquoret on 22 August 2014

For me also, the plat leaderboard is most interesting. It just goes beyond the simple plat counts that trophy sites offer, since we take into account of the difficulties.



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Esquoret on 24 August 2014

Hey guys, check out a blog post I wrote on 7 lessons I learned from trophy hunting! I also make a mention of this league.

Link: http://precociousragamuffin.com/2014/08/18/lessons-of-the-hunt/

Would love to hear what YOU have learned through trophy hunting!



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