The Board Nobody Asked For, But Everybody Checks
Bad Neighbors keeps a set of server-side player stats and shows them on the join screen so everyone gets a quick look at what has been happening lately. It is part scoreboard, part community gossip, and part warning label.
What We Track
The stats are collected by the server and refreshed periodically. They are not meant to be a perfect live feed. They are meant to give players a fun snapshot of the current season of chaos: who has been fighting, who has been surviving, who has been walking way too far, and who keeps discovering gravity with their shin bones.
- Top PvP kills, zombie kills, headshots, deaths, and distance traveled.
- Blood moon stats for zombie kills, PvP kills, and deaths.
- Fun stats like longest broken leg, worst infection, and suspiciously dramatic bank balances.
- The current longest life, which is either a badge of honour or a giant glowing sign that says “come ruin this.”
A Few Names On The Wall
Koobah is having a very normal one by sitting at the top of zombie slayer, kilometers traveled, and longest life. That kind of success is admirable, inspirational, and absolutely the sort of thing that makes people start casually asking where Koobah was last seen.
Sabaut is making the blood moon board look personal, with a big zombie kill count and a highest-level spot to go with it. Belfast87 keeps showing up everywhere, which is usually how you know someone is either carrying the server or causing half the incidents being recorded. CHEEZeTriSKet is on the PvP, headshot, deaths, and close-range hit lists, which is a very efficient way to appear both dangerous and frequently in danger.
ItsDaddyD currently owns the “most deaths” crown, which is technically a leaderboard and emotionally a support group. Meanwhile, LastBolt and Kinless have been putting in elite work on the broken-leg board. Not every record is a trophy you want on the mantel.
Longest Life: The Dangerous Crown
The longest-life stat is one of our favourites because it changes the social temperature immediately. Surviving the longest sounds great until everyone else notices. Suddenly your careful playstyle becomes public information, your name is on the board, and half the server develops a deep academic interest in whether that streak can be ended.
Sometimes the board celebrates you. Sometimes the board paints a target on your back. Both are very Bad Neighbors outcomes.
Why Put This On Join?
The join screen is the perfect place for it. Before you even load all the way in, you get a little snapshot of the server story: who has been grinding, who has been hunting, who has been dying creatively, and who may need to be congratulated from a safe distance.
It keeps the world feeling active, gives regulars something to chase, and gives new players a quick sense that Bad Neighbors is not just a map. It is a community with receipts.