AC ladder
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The AC ladder is a ranking list of players with the goal to encourage competitive gameplay. It records scores from multiple servers and presents the data organised by individual, clan and country.
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HI-SKILL ladder
After the demise of the third ladder[1] there were many calls from members of the community for a replacement. The HI-SKILL Ladder was announced[2] on the AC forum on September 4th 2009 by Drakas.
The HI-SKILL ladder is always undergoing updates and improvements by Drakas. There is currently support for showing daily, weekly, monthly and all time ranks for players, and separate pages for these. Clicking on a user shows all the information about their games, and with the signatures feature (see below), you can see even more information about a player.
There are often disputes between members of the community regarding public 'nade spamming' (repeatedly throwing grenades into doorways for free gibs) and other issues because of the ladder, but on the whole, most are grateful for it.
Scoring
On the designated servers all relevant game values (number of captured flags, frags, gibs, deaths, team kills, time played, etc.) of the participating players are collected and put into data packages which are sent at one hour intervals to the ladder service. Not all scores count; games must meet these criteria:
- be played on an official or a chosen non-official map
- have at least 8 players (this rule need not apply for the whole game, but an action will only score if there are at least 8 players in the game at that time)
How scores are calculated is not being revealed.
Servers
Only well maintained and reliable servers are allowed to report to the ladder. These servers can change as often or as little as they want.
| Name | IP/Domain | Max Players | Owner | Location | Logging |
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| A&D: BigCheese | 81.89.107.97:40000 | 10 | stef | 
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| A&D: Flopsy | 81.89.107.97:30000 | 16 | stef |
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| Astral:DES | desjamz.com:28763 | 14 | jamz | 
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| THE HUB @ HI-SKILL | sol.woop.us:5000 | 14 | Drakas | 
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| Idis' public house | idis.woop.us:28763 | 12 | Drakas | 
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| EUROZONE @ HI-SKILL | idis.woop.us:4000 | 14 | Drakas |
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| Wotan Fragland | idis.woop.us:5000 | 14 | Drakas |
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| NZ Pohutukawa | randumkiwi.co.nz:1337 | 14 | RandumKiwi | 
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| NZ Kiwi | randumkiwi.co.nz:28763 | 14 | RandumKiwi |
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Rules
Team fixing on the HI-SKILL ladder is not allowed. Team fixing can be defined as putting all the good players on one team and all worst players on the second team. No intentional team fire/damage, especially with flag carriers. Repeated verbal abuse will not be tolerated. and obviously, no cheating is allowed on the ladder,
Not following any of these may result in removal of your individual scores, or your team's scores if more than one individual is involved in that. Extreme cases reported to the blacklist.
Uploader
One of the newest features, somewhat unrelated to the ladder as such, is an uploader. This area allows players on the ladder to upload AssaultCube related content - text, demos, images, etc.
Extra features
The ladder also provides user signatures which allow ranked members of the ladder to create image links to use in their forums to display their levels.[3] Voice communication servers also have been adopted to improve the quality of the gaming.[4] Points transfers are also available to those who have played a while and changed their nickname and/or joined or left or moved clan.[5] The updates page includes an area to post your own comments and feedback.
For most recent and latest information on the HI-SKILL ladder, follow up on the information page or the news.
TyD Ladder
History
The first ladder
Between July and September 2007 a small group of people started to discuss the need of an official ladder system for AssaultCube[6][7][8][9]. Unfortunaly no one was able at that point in time to install a full working ladder system. In January 2008 acfan announced at the official forum that his servers Beacon and Champagne now provides a ladder system[10]. Short after that the list of supporting servers was enlarged with Krusty and Clown, both hosted by KanslozeClown. At the end of January and after an administration error in March, which causes the deletion of one of the topscorers, the ladder table was reset.
The second ladder
After a serious hardware failure, the Beacon and Champagne servers were lost and with that also the ladder service. Short after that the clan Tear you Down!, whose members are responsible for the service, started to discuss the possibility to recreate the ladder on a server space hosted by KanslozeClown. On September 17, 2008, he confirmed on the AssaultCube forum the rumors about the existance of a new ladder[11]. This new one was running for a couple of days as beta version, to test the stability and to fix errors.
With the new ladder service also some new aspects took place, cause the statistics are calculated by now also with the results of matches hosted on Pennywise. Since Pennywise uses a different blacklist than Clown and Krusty (which means that brazilian IPs are not banned on Pennywise), the amount of abuse on that server is (much) higher. However, the clan wanted to make the ladder available for Brazilians as well, and thus decided to make two versions of the ladder: one which includes scores of all three servers, and one using only the points scored on Clown and Krusty. Another new aspect is the map filtering: Many players are still playing trainings maps (mostly known as "gema") on the public ladder servers. These maps often includes multiple flag bases at the end of the training course. With that, these maps could be abused to push the scores. Therefore several maps are filtered out: they can still be played, but they won't count for the ladder.
The third ladder
With the release of the AssaultCube 1.0 it becomes necessary to update the ladder to support new server, gamemodes (HTF, KTF, TKTF) aso. Since December 2008, 1st the beta version of the new ladder was set up online[12]. With that also the number of providing servers increased: In addition to the three upgraded servers (Clown, Krusty, Pennywise) KanslozeClown fired three more servers (Bassy, Binky, Doink). Thus all servers are identical in their configuration, there was no need for a separate Pennywise statistics anymore. On January 4, Joker was added as well. Since that and with the support of the community, the list of contributing servers is still growing: Several servers of Beyond Compare (December 2008), Armed and Dangerous (January 2008), RandumKiwi (February 2008) and w00p (March 2008) have been added.
New features have been implemented also: Now the ladder supports per player statistics. These statistics are shown on a separate page (which can be found by clicking on a name in the ladder). Scores for every month as well as totals are shown on one page. Also, for each item in the ladder (frags, deaths, flags kept, etc) the overall ranking is shown. This way, players can keep track of their scores in an easy way.
In May 2009, 31st a few minor changes have been made to the ladder[13]: The minimum number of players has been lowered from 8 to 6. This has been done to allow people to score ladder point more easily, and also because several contributing servers have got a lower number of maximum players to improve gameplay in the meantime. Also the number of points awarded for hunting down a flag has been lowered. This has been done because of the fact that keeping a flag in KTF and scoring a flag in CTF is much harder than hunting a flag in HTF.
Clanwar
On December 23, 2008, KanslozeClown introduced Clanwar, on which the ladder scores of the top 6 players of each known clan (identified by their clantag) make up a cumulative score per clan[14].
At the beginning of February 2009 there was a first indication that the clan Redemption Gam!ng tried to influence the ladder. They were suspected to change the teams so that all good players from one team (and clan) go into one team and the bad ones in the other. This was later confirmed roughly by one of their leaders[15]. Cause several warnings to refrain this action were ignored, KanslozeClown decided to nullify all scores of rg!-members of March 2009[16]. The action itself - so called team fixing - is now considered as cheating [17].
Moderanking
On December 11, 2009 there was a new addon to the ladder. Per mode statistics[18]. These statistics shows the individual scores in the different modes. Players will now get a clearer picture of which mode they scored their total score in, and which mode they should practice in.
Servers
| Name | IP/Domain | Max Players | Owner | Location | Logging |
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| {TyD}Beacon | 213.163.85.149:20000 | 12 | Pwnage | 
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| {TyD}Twist | 213.163.85.149:20000 | 12 | Pwnage |
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| NZ Kiwi | 60.234.40.49:28763 | 14 | RandumKiwi |
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| NZ Pohutukawa | 60.234.40.49:1337 | 14 | RandumKiwi |
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| Astral:DES | 92.48.125.163:28763 | 14 | jamz |
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| Europa:DES | 92.48.125.163:2626 | 8 | jamz |
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| NS AC Server #1 | 91.189.136.7:28769 | 12 | Nissarin | 
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| NS AC Server #2 | 91.189.136.7:28767 | 12 | Nissarin |
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| A&D: Flopsy | 81.89.107.97:30000 | 16 | stef |
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| A&D: BigCheese Arena | 81.89.107.97:40000 | 10 | stef |
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| IF USP BRASIL 1 | 143.107.130.171:28763 | 12 | Brahma | 
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References
- ↑ "KanslozeClown says Goodbye", AC forum on July 22, 2009
- ↑ "HI-SKILL Ladder", AC forum on September 4, 2009
- ↑ http://assault.cubers.net/forum/thread-2736.html
- ↑ http://hi-skill.us.to/news/12
- ↑ http://hi-skill.us.to/news/6
- ↑ "Ladder & Tournament Management", AC forum on July 17, 2007
- ↑ "AC needs a ladder", AC forum on August 2, 2007
- ↑ "AC Ladder/Tourneys", AC forum on September 8, 2007
- ↑ "Ladder / Tournament - php, mysql script", AC forum at August 22, 2008
- ↑ acfan: "Good news, everyone! I've created a simple ladder for AC to increase spirit of competition on my servers...", AC forum on January 17, 2008
- ↑ "A new AC Ladder", AC forum on September 16, 2008
- ↑ "TyD's AC 1.0 Ladder", AC forum on December 4, 2008
- ↑ "AC Ladder changes" , AC forum on May 31, 2009
- ↑ "Introducing: AC Ladder Clanwar", AC forum on December 23, 2008
- ↑ Brett: "I don't deny it, we were switching team to play together...", AC forum on March 8, 2009
- ↑ KanslozeClown deletes .rg!'s score for March, AC forum on March 8, 2009
- ↑ KanslozeClown's statement to .rg!, AC forum on February 9, 2009
- ↑ [http://ladder.tearyoudown.com/mode.html
