← The Pilot’s ManualChapter — The Leaderboard

The Leaderboard

A public registry of pilots, ranked by drone power — press I to open the Console and select the Boardtab on its rail. Nothing here is realtime and nothing here is a live match: it’s a read of everyone’s own saved standing, refreshed whenever you ask it to.

01 What’s ranked

The board sorts every pilot by score, highest first, and shows the top 50. Score is your drone’s Drone Rating— the exact same power figure the Rig’s own Showcase card prints, read live off your fitted build. There is no separate leaderboard formula to game; whatever raises your Rig’s number raises this one too.

Fig. 1

What a row actually shows

ScoreYour drone's Drone Rating — the same power number the Rig's own Showcase card shows. One formula, everywhere it's printed.

DroneRendered from your actual fitted loadout and livery — the same parts your own Rig wears, not a stand-in icon.

Class & titleWhichever class you've chosen and the rank title that comes with it — see Pilot & Classes.

Level, Deepest, LedgerYour Pilot level, your deepest-ever mark, and how much of the Ledger you've filled — read straight off your save.

Region flagWhatever you've picked in the Account tab's region picker — chosen, never detected from your connection.

02 Appearing on it

Fig. 2

Three things have to be true

Sign inA guest's drone is never on the board — the row belongs to an account, not a device.

Sync onceYour row is written the next time your save reaches the cloud (autosave, or leaving the tab).

CadenceAt most once every few minutes even if you sync more often — a ranking number doesn't need a write on every save.

Outside the top 50, the panel still shows your own row and rank in a small strip of its own — you’re never simply absent because the board only prints fifty names.

03 Clicking a pilot

Selecting any row loads that pilot into the center stage and the dossier beside it: their drone, drawn from their real fitted parts and livery, the three abilities of whichever class they’ve chosen — each shown at the level they’ve actually drilled it to, never a guess — and their level, deepest mark and Ledger progress as honest bars. On a narrow window the dossier opens as its own full screen with a visible ← Back to rankings control; Esc returns you to the list from there without leaving the Console.

04 What this isn’t

Design-spec: async social only. There is no realtime presence, no matchmaking, and no dedicated game server behind this screen — just a shared read of everyone’s own saved standing. A Refresh control re-reads it on demand; nothing pushes updates to you while the panel sits open.

If the board hasn’t opened yet on this build, the panel says so plainly — that honest line, never a raw error, is what you’ll see instead of a table.