Return global rank for entries in social leaderboard

[antony]

You can get the current players rank when calling GetGlobalLeaderboardView, etc but you can't get the rankings of your friends. GetSocialLeaderboard only returns your friends and their scores but not their global rank. I would like to be able to show the global leaderboard and the social leaderboard combined as one single leaderboard in my app and knowing the friends global ranking would allow me to do this.

[Paul Winterhalder]

Hi @antony - I'll send that one off to the devs and see how that would affect the implementation.

We'd likely make it a separate call - as that's a heavier operation that just returning your friends in relative order. That said - if you have to do it manually yourself that's a LOT heavier on the servers -- so I agree that this new call would be beneficial.

Stay tuned!

[antony]

Thank you! I've hacked an implementation for now that just guesses the ranks on the client side without grabbing the actual ranks. The players will only discover it if they're playing sitting side by side.