Leaderboard

A ranking of players by lifetime points or production, surfacing the social platform around the game.

Why deferred: The save is a per-user blob, so ranking needs a queryable score in Postgres — new schema and a write on every save for a game whose state is client-authoritative, which makes the score trivially forgeable. That last part is what a game-specific board cannot get around and the existing one does not have to: an achievement unlock is stamped by the server on a mutation it saw, so its points are earned rather than claimed.

Revisit when: there is demand for a game-specific board on top of the one that already exists. The other half of this trigger has fired — points leaderboard ships the global ranking this page was waiting on, and clicker feeds it through the achievements on clicker.saveClicker (game loop and saves). So what is left to want is a board ranked on points-per-second or lifetime points rather than on unlocks, and nothing has asked for one.