Urban Dead Leaderboard

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The Urban Dead Leaderboard is an independent project run by Raymond A. Buckley III a.k.a. "Raeleus" a.k.a. "Ray3k.", a player of Urban Dead.

History Of The Leaderboard

This ambitious project was started on July 18th 2006 in an attempt to create a fun addition to the game. Players who contributed to the board in it's early days were met with a very small page with minimum graphics. Players had to e-mail the creator their profile links to appear on the board.

Since then, the board has matured and improved greatly. The site is more colourful and has an easy to understand graphical base, with images that represent each class as well as the gender of each player. The board now features links to the UD Wiki Group pages of certain players as well as links to the profiles of each participant.

Having started with a handful of participants, the board now has over 600 entries and rising.

Features Of The Board

As well as the above features, the leaderboard also awards 'trophies' to certain participants.

Gold, Silver and Bronze trophies are awarded to the top three players of the entire board. Featherweight trophies are awarded to the top three players under level 15. A separate leaderboard is maintained for these players.

A daily prize is also awarded to the zombie player with the most deaths as well as to the player who earns the most XP each day.

A pleasant feature is that of a special message which appears daily for characters who joined the game on the same day a year or more ago. This is known as a birthday.

Characters can be added easily by pasting your profile URL into a form. It is possible search for a character by typing the name into a search box.

Scoring System

Scores are calculated by the following formulas:
SurvivorScore = XP + classBonus + 200 * survivorSkills + 75 * zombieSkills
ZombieScore = XP + classBonus + 200 * zombieSkills + 75 * survivorSkills

The "200 * skills" is meant to reward higher level characters. The "75 * other skills" is designed to compensate for the xp spent for these skills. However it does not award the player for having extra skills.

Class bonuses are awarded to survivors to offset the advantage of civilians being able to buy more skills with less XP.
Civilians: +0
Military: +100
Scientist: +325

Zombies are awarded a class bonus because they have fewer overall skills.
Zombies: + 400

So it can be seen that the higher your level, the more skills you have as well as your total XP increases your likelihood of entering the top 10 players.

External Links

• - The Urban Dead Leaderboard