The leaderboard now shows more than a number
Until today a row on the leaderboard was a place, an avatar, a name and a number. Since this morning it has also had the career crest. Most of what people had earned and bought was still missing, and a list of numbers doesn't say who the people behind them are.
Now each row can show a few more things next to the name.
Prestige stars. One to five gold stars, counted from lifetime Tridents. This is the same measure the Prestige board ranks by, and it was already public. The Tridents you can still spend stay private.
Your title. Anything you put on in the Exchange, or earned with an achievement or a season finish, appears in italics under your name. That covers "Class of 2026", "Record Breaker", "Season Champion" and the rest.
Your colours. A name colour bought in the Exchange now shows on the leaderboard. So does the avatar glow. Other pilots can see both in the place people actually look.
Season medals. Every closed season leaves a result. 🥇, 🥈 and 🥉 mark the podium finishes and 🏅 marks a top-ten finish. If you have the same medal more than once, a small ×2 or ×3 sits beside it. Hover over a medal to see what it stands for.
📡 for feeders. People who run a receiver feeding the network get the same badge their profile shows. The rule is the same too: the receiver has to have actually delivered packets, and hiding your station hides the badge.
A podium for the top three
The first three places are no longer rows. They stand on a podium with the champion in the middle, second on the left and third on the right, each card tinted gold, silver or bronze. The avatars there are large enough for the rank frame to read, so on the podium the frame shows the rank and replaces the small crest. Each person gets one rank mark, never two side by side.
Everyone from fourth place down keeps the compact row, with the crest next to the avatar. At 30 pixels a ring around the avatar would be noise.
What doesn't change
The numbers and the order are exactly as before. None of this changes how anyone ranks. It changes what you see about the people ranked. The season boards and the all-time boards get the same treatment, and so does every metric: season XP, ships, aircraft and races.
The page stays readable on a phone. We checked it down to 360 pixels wide, where the podium still fits three across and long names get cut short instead of pushing the layout sideways.
If you haven't looked at the Exchange yet, the leaderboard is now one of the places where what you put on gets seen. Titles, name colours and glows show here, on your profile and on your plate in the sky.