04-02-2019, 11:09 PM
I imagine it would be possible to both have the automatic leaderboards for every game AND designate one of them per-week as being prize-enabled? Some kind of icon on the main menu (like a trophy cup or a treasure chest) beside that game could help make users aware of it when it's being offered, even if they don't check the forums or the events tab of their account.
More frequent, smaller events with smaller prizes does sound good, since it gives more people the chance to be winners. The only tradeoff is that if someone has to take a few days off for a vacation or something, or has busy work weeks and only has time to play on their days off, they could feel disadvantaged on competitions that are 1 week long and based on cumulative score. With month-long cumulative-score competitions, a person can always make up for lost time when they get the chance (and anyone who IS exercising hard almost every day probably deserves the greater chance at the prize!)
So maybe it would be better to make short-period leaderboards based around highest-single-score? If that were the case, there'd be another problem: would you limit / separate the leaderboards by specific exercise length (IE a leaderboard for the 10-minute, a separate one for the 20-minute, etc.) or would you do some kind of Points-divided-by-workout-length thing, so that for example someone scoring 4000 points in a ten-minute workout would be tied with someone scoring 8000 in the twenty-minute?
As for the total-spins leaderboard, I'd think making that a monthly, or having separate ones for weekly and monthly would be best.
More frequent, smaller events with smaller prizes does sound good, since it gives more people the chance to be winners. The only tradeoff is that if someone has to take a few days off for a vacation or something, or has busy work weeks and only has time to play on their days off, they could feel disadvantaged on competitions that are 1 week long and based on cumulative score. With month-long cumulative-score competitions, a person can always make up for lost time when they get the chance (and anyone who IS exercising hard almost every day probably deserves the greater chance at the prize!)
So maybe it would be better to make short-period leaderboards based around highest-single-score? If that were the case, there'd be another problem: would you limit / separate the leaderboards by specific exercise length (IE a leaderboard for the 10-minute, a separate one for the 20-minute, etc.) or would you do some kind of Points-divided-by-workout-length thing, so that for example someone scoring 4000 points in a ten-minute workout would be tied with someone scoring 8000 in the twenty-minute?
As for the total-spins leaderboard, I'd think making that a monthly, or having separate ones for weekly and monthly would be best.