Game Center - Getting friends from leaderboards

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Hello,
Given a selected leaderboard in my game, I want to retrieve the user’s friends and rakings to compare with his, but from what I’ve seen and done so far, I can only get the friends list and the scores list separety, therefore I’d have to check one by one (via IDs) if the member on the leaderboard list is a friend.
If the given leaderboard has 200.000 values and the user has 10 friends, the operation wouls be performed 2 million times!
Is there any other way to do this? Or is this normal and it’s not that many?

Thanks

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Not sure if you are rolling your own or using our plugin. However, if you are using our plugin, you would just specify the PlayerScope property to friend’s only.

http://u3dxt.com/api/?topic=html/T_U3DXT_iOS_Native_GameKit_GKLeaderboard.htm
http://u3dxt.com/api/?topic=html/T_U3DXT_iOS_Native_GameKit_GKLeaderboardPlayerScope.htm

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The Prime31 GameCenter plugin has a method to get friend scores from a specific leaderboard. Sounds like this is what you want to do.

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If you haven’t decided which plugin to use yet, we just finished gamekit for ios7.0 with support for authentication when submitting scores. This will help cut down on cheaters flooding your leader boards with fake scores.

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Achievements and GameCenter I made on my own because it was easy and simple.
A few weeks ago I bought your plugin for in app purchases and facebook/twitter integration. Since you just added game kit I might as well take a look. Is it live already?

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Cool! One of my customers. :slight_smile:

GameCenter for iOS 6.0 is live in the asset store (we didn’t update the background graphic in the Asset Store).

GameCenter for iOS 7.0 will be live on Sept 18th (pending review process).

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Well that explains it! hehe
Cool, will give it a go :slight_smile: