I tend to agree, not a fan of this "only top 3 squads win a prize" thing
The big squads seem to be way on top in this.
Greetings Commanders,
The release of Beyond - Chapter Four brought many changes and improvements to the core Elite Dangerous gameplay experience; one of those changes was the introduction of Squadrons and Squadron Leaderboards.
With the first Season of Squadron Leaderboards coming to an end, we wanted to give you a little recap on what they are and how they work!
You can see the Squadron Leaderboards by heading to your Squadrons page, which is found in the in-game interface’s right hand panel. On this page you will also find clear instructions on how to join or set up a Squadron, too!
Topping the Charts - Season One of Squadrons Leaderboards
For a Squadron to appear on one of the Leaderboard categories, all members have to do is engage in that particular activity. The categories are:
- Xeno Defence
- Combat
- CQC
- Exploration
- Political
- Powerplay
- Trade
At the end of each Season (roughly two months in length), we will see who is in the bronze, silver and gold positions of each category (per platform) and reward each member of the Squadron with an in-game trophy to proudly display on their cockpit dashboard (we've provided some examples for you below). Those winning Squadrons will also receive the appropriate medal added to their Hall of Fame!
Squadron Leaderboards Trophies (Examples)
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Season One of the Squadrons Leaderboards is due to end on Thursday 7 February, so take a look in-game at the current standings and see what you can do to push your Squadron to that top spot!
Season Two will begin immediately as Season One closes, and the Squadrons Leaderboards will be reset back to zero. The top three Squadrons in each category will see their bronze, silver or gold medals added to the Hall of Fame section of their Squadron page, and the dashboard trophies will be added to the Squadron members' accounts automatically.
There's not much time left till Season One ends, so make every action count, Commanders!
Sounds like a big job!I can confirm that Hutton have been pushing for the last 6 days to do well in the Trade table - we've logged 55 billion+ in VALUE of items sold and gone up exactly the same amount - it's taken a co-ordinated team of 50 or so people (everyone else in the group is either on DW2 or busy fighting thargoids, or repairing Wuli, or looking after our systems) to get where we are at the moment, but is 100% related to the VALUE of the profit you make - and void opals are this season's "must have" ornament for every cockpit. Nowt to do with number of transactions, or selling 1 at a time vs in a big lump - just pure hard graft!
Sounds like a big job!
am i doing something wrong? i can't find the leader boards anywhere on my HUD.
i'm on XBOX and i am NOT in a Squadron. do i need to have joined a Squadron to see the leader board?
yea that makes sence if its cordinated, just was getting suspecios of that hard jump. Congrats. So mine is trade and there is absolutly no solution to bet it with Trade cause there is no ware you can make 1.7 mil Profit or 100% Profit a ton. Kind of pure design to count a 100% profit from mine to trade, But it´s like that, its missing a mining category than. In other ways bought comoditys dosen´t coun´t for CG´s.
Mabe it´s time for a rescue Operation too get those Truckers out of the Slavery at the mining Ships.
My understanding is that for the Trade leaderboard, it's as simple as one credit earned through selling something = one point towards your Squadron's total. Feel free to conduct experiments to test this hypothesis.
RE: those that say only the big squadrons will win.
the current second place squadron for AX has about 18 members, and they are keeping up very well with a group of 160+
Food for thought.
Correct. The advantage at the moment comes from working out how the scoreboards work, and then gaming the leaderboards. Until all players have this information, the number of players or amount of game time will not dictate who wins.So no, saying that only 500 people Squadrons can win is not really true.
as for ranking Combat LB and Political LB i gues that are the Scenarios, faster to kill than cz and gives influence.
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Is there really nothing more involved, significant and interesting that can be designed and developed for Squadrons than (grind) leader boards? - Am I the only one shaking my head with this sort of stuff getting added?
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