docs(link): points.board, the leaderboards API, and what a real shard changed #69

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8e857a9c8d docs(link): points.board, the leaderboards API, and what a real shard changed
Protocol 3.0 §7 lands across servuo-plugins, link and website; this is the
matching documentation.

INTEGRATION.md
  - points.board in the event catalog: one frame per system, never a delta, no
    points.remove (the shard's system set is fixed at startup). Four gotchas
    called out, all of them things a consumer gets wrong by default:
      1. maxPoints: 0 means UNCAPPED, not "zero allowed" — and on a real shard
         it is the COMMON case, so anything rendering points/maxPoints must
         special-case it or divide by zero on the happy path.
      2. nameString is usually null, with a cliloc in nameNumber — so
         humanising the system key is the primary display path, not a fallback.
      3. players counts players actually holding points, not table size: ten of
         the ~25 systems keep a zero-point row per character ever created, so
         the raw count would report the shard's whole census.
      4. Entries carry serial + name only, never acct/webId.
  - The char.profile `points` block, and why `rank` is absent by default.
  - GET /points and /points/:system, including why 404 (never published) and
    200-with-empty-top (published, nobody scored) are different answers.

v3.md
  - B/2 marked done in both the progress table and §9.
  - NEW §7.5, "what the run against a real shard changed" — the same record §6.1
    and §6.2 keep. Four corrections the plan could not have anticipated from
    reading PointsSystem.cs, the sharpest being that (long)double.MaxValue is an
    unchecked conversion yielding long.MinValue, which published
    "maxPoints": -9223372036854775808 on the first live sweep. Also records that
    GetEntry/GetPoints mutate the world on AutoAdd systems and so cannot be used
    in a read model, and the one deliberate deviation from §7.4: the visibility
    field rule must key on the wire's `name`, not the descriptive
    `characterName`, or it is silently inert.

BACKEND_DESIGN.md — shard_points_boards (including why the top-N list stays in
the payload and why listing orders by COALESCE(name, system)), plus the two new
public routes.

PLAN.md — 3.0 phasing brought current: the spawn atlas and points.board added to
what has shipped, and the Points* keys noted in the config-key paragraph.

PROJECT_TREE.md files are deliberately untouched — they are CI-generated and say
so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 21:05:04 -05:00