Hello,
I was tasked with creating a global leaderboard for an island. I initially thought this would be a straightforward task and broke it down into the following steps:
- Create persistent storage (which is well-explained in the tutorial).
- Determine the data to store—in my case, Kills and Deaths.
- Create an array based on the persistent object and sort it by the player’s number of kills.
- Display the top N records from the array on a billboard.
Everything seemed simple until I started working on step #3. I discovered that weak_map cannot be iterated over (yes, I overlooked the tutorial’s note: “A weak_map is a simple map that cannot be iterated over”). This means I can’t create an array containing all records from the weak_map.
However, I was curious about how leaderboards are implemented on other islands. After extensive searching, I came across a Reddit comment stating: “You can’t make a global leaderboard. People submit their scores to Discord, and they get added manually.”
Is this true?
Is it really impossible to use a persistent object for a global leaderboard? If not, what alternatives exist for achieving this functionality?
Thanks in advance!