Today i was in pvp and thinking about, what can i do now? Im larger than ava rank 24, i have won campaigns and so on. There are no "hard targets" for me in AvA anymore. Eventually my next target is hitting AvA rank 50, but for what? Having nice pvp moments can be a target, but in Cyrodiil? Im not a people who is happy with nice pvp fights. I want "hard targets" like hitting a rank to get anything.
So the question is: What we can implement with low effort to give players hard targets?
The first idea that i have is pretty simple.
AvA rankings for the hole megaserver.
There you can see:
- Player with most overall AP
- Player with most overall AP a week
- Deathblows
- ...
With not much creativity can be the list very long for any art of rankings.
Like said, the rankings are for the hole megaserver. So you see for example the player with the most lifetime AP. Like the emperor of the emperors

This rankings can be retroactive. I mean if you look into your character screen you can calculate your overall AP with adding all ranks and your actual AP. So very simple to implement that ranking...
Expand the rankings for guilds too
Like rankings for single players can be rankings for guilds too.
For example:
- Guild with most overall AP
- Guild with most overall AP in week
This overall AP rankings starts at zero and are very simple too. You only need to add gained AP's from all players of the guild.
But which guild will be used for rankings?
All knows you got 5 guilds in game. So which guild get your gained AP's ? Every player can choose a "home guild" like the campaign system. Only for your "home guild" your AP's will be registred.
Why i think rankings will be a motivation for players?
I got personal interests in overall rankings and im inspired by a presentation from R2Games CEO (Jared Psigoda). The CEO speeks about chinese FTP games and their success.
Here the LINK. Look at minute 16++ (Ladderboards, Ladderboards for EVERYTHING). The cinese peoples are very creative to create games with no real content, but enjoy peoples.
And i think Jared Psigoda speeks right. The players are crazy about rankings. If i think we got overall rankings for AvA, i think i got higher motivation to play more PvP to get more AP to get higher in the overall rankings. Its frustrating for me to see the campaign rankings every campaign restart resetted. There is no long term ranking...
So what is against overall rankings? Please discuss!!