My wife pointed me to this cool feature: Warhammer is doing in-game statues of their top players in the capital cities, creating a sort of visual leaderboards.

Cool, but perhaps not entirely original: I coded the same thing into a “Hall of Heroes” in Meridian 59 a decade ago. I know of many text MUDs that had a similar feature before us, but I -believe- we were the first graphical game to do so.

The “Hall of Heroes” had one of the most marvelous easter eggs ever, if I do say so myself. If you used our ‘/unstuck’ ability in the room, you would be teleported to a copy of the Hall of Heroes, where all the statues were replaced with statues of the Dev Team. I remember coding this in the time between handing in my two weeks notice at 3DO, and actually leaving. It was deeply satisfying, especially since most of the statues were of people who had already left.