Guest Scores

ID:102153
 
Sep 19 2010, 9:18 pm
Redundant
Applies to:Website
Status: Redundant
This feature has already been implemented, or is already achievable with existing methods.
How about adding a little "show guests" checkbox to the Medals & Scores page? What it would do is toggle the visibility of guest accounts on the standings tab of a hub page.

It would be useful to track guests without having them clutter the actual scoreboard.
Sep 20 2010, 8:24 am
Should guest scores be listed in the first place? Sounds like a lot of useless clutter to me.
Sep 20 2010, 8:32 am
I'd like to use it for distribution outside of BYOND where people don't exactly have accounts yet.
Sep 20 2010, 10:00 am
I don't approve of this. I mean, yeah some people that aren't BYOND users might like this, but think about it. If they aren't BYOND users, they don't visit BYOND. So there's no need at all for Guest-Scores. Not only that but aren't Guests very temporary?
Sep 20 2010, 10:06 am
It's a good thing features don't need your approval then.

Games pull scores down from the hub, one does not need to visit byond.com in order to see a scoreboard. If we could save guest scores but filter them from everyone else we could provide non-BYONDers with the same features we give to people with accounts without cluttering things up.

Making games better for non-BYONDers is a very good thing.
Sep 20 2010, 10:24 am (Edited on Sep 20 2010, 6:56 pm)
I don't think you understood me clearly. Guests are just that. Guests. Why would you want to display the scores of something that doesn't entirely exist?
One day they could be Guest-226432 then the next they could be Guest-234622. It doesn't make logical sense.
Also, I'm pretty sure a major focal point of the whole "Bring BYOND outside of BYOND" was to show the internet that BYOND exists, later having them join BYOND and not just remain Guest which would in return potentially bring income and more users to BYOND.

The only way I would even consider having Guest-Scores would be when/if BYOND goes into Flash-embedded games.

By the way, this isn't off-topic. It's very relevant to the post and topic.
Sep 20 2010, 10:26 am
You're going off topic.
Sep 20 2010, 11:49 am (Edited on Sep 20 2010, 12:37 pm)
Because guests appear on the Medals & Scores page, I support your request.
Sep 20 2010, 3:59 pm
Guest medals would be quite impossible without a radical alteration to our setup. Guest scores are quite possible because scores are not tied to accounts.
May 13 2014, 9:37 pm
Ter13 resolved issue (Redundant)

Scores are not tied to keys themselves.
Medals, unfortunately, can't be decoupled from keys.