light.gg is a progress tracker and completion leaderboard for the game Destiny 2. Our goal is to improve on the vault & collections system in Destiny 2 and hopefully make working toward max completion more fun.
Progress is tracked against most PVE and PVP activities that provide rewards that aren't trivially obtained. Once authorized, we use Bungie's provided Destiny 2 API to pull the required information on your characters and inventory. That information is used to help populate our completion leaderboards and determine your rank.
The best example is planetary faction sets. While there are people that certainly want to collect these and work toward getting max completion with them as well as the other stuff light.gg tracks, there really isn't much to acquiring them other than doing lots of activites on their respective planet. If you want these sets, all you have to do is grind out enough tokens through public events, patrols, challenges, lost sectors, etc.
Regardless, you'll be able to track your completion on these items under the Vendors & Engrams section. Leaderboards just seem like overkill.
While it's still in Beta, we're working on a collector's leaderboard so that collectors can see how their progress compares against everyone else on light.gg. Think of it as ELO for collectors. More details to come on that as we move closer to having it completed.
Also, not to be confused with PVP ELO leaderboards. Destiny Tracker is the place to go for that.
Depending on the goal, there are different components that determine how far you've progressed. These smaller bars keep track of those components. Clicking on any of them (with a couple exceptions) will cause the items in that section to cycle through the items that match, the items that don't, and everything.
Here's a breakdown of what each of the bars keep track of:
The goal is to make it easier for people that do care about collecting all of the non-trivial stuff to keep track of what they've completed and what they still have left to go. If you don't care about getting all the ornaments for your exotics, that's completely cool, but the site is setting these things as the goal so that people that like having a carrot to chase can have one. Complete as much or as little as you personally care about, and we'll help you keep track of it.
Also, there will be separate leaderboards for each goal, so if you want try to be the first person to get full sets of the newest Prestige Raid but don't really care about Trials, you'll be able to focus on the parts of the game you care about and ignore the rest.
During the first Faction Rally, after rank 30, faction engrams started to only reward shaders instead of gear. Though you could continue to turn items in and potentially rank up past 30, that's essentially where the "grind" ended. We wanted to have reputation progress be a factor in overall progress for many of the goals on the site, so the soft "cut-off" of rank 30 in the game seemed like a logical spot to put it.
It's entirely possible that The Nine, The Leviathan, Iron Banner, or other reputations will continue to reward gear past rank 30 (the Gunsmith definitely does, for example). We're still going to stop keeping track once you get to 30, as that seems like the point where you ought to have received the vast majority of the items you need via reputation.
Possibly. Once we get some data rolling in, if it seems like some factions will never actually hit that number, we'll adjust the cap.
As for keeping the rank relevant, 30 seems pretty high to someone just starting the game, or even just starting to grind out an activity they haven't done before. Making it 150 or something over time isn't out of the question if there's a logical in-game consequence for having a rank that high, but for now 30 seems to be a good point to say that rank doesn't matter with respect to progress past that.
It's also possible that we create a separate leaderboard just for reputation rank eventually. Being able to see that you're only 5 ranks behind the guardian who's got the most FWC ranks on the site, trying to catch up, and eventually getting your own Jedi Master chair in the lounge when you take that #1 spot sounds like it could be pretty fun.
If you want to reach 100% on those bars in a hurry, making it rain all over Tess Everis is definitely the fastest way to do that. However, all Eververse items can be earned through post level-20 Bright Engram drops, either directly or using Silver Dust. Especially since many of these items can no longer be dismantled and printed back out at a Kiosk, having a tool to keep track of what you have and what you don't across all of your characters seems helpful.
However, because items in this section can simply be bought (directly or indirectly), they will never have any impact on any leaderboard ranking.
DIM is definitely a great tool and a huge asset to the Destiny community. It's great at what it does, but DIM is focused on helping you find what you already have and move it between your characters easily. There's lots of other community projects out there that do a lot of great things, and it's probably healthy for there to be some overlap so that we can all continue to get new ideas and improve.
light.gg is trying to fill the gap left by the kiosk system in Destiny 2 only showing what you've earned and not showing what you haven't. We're also trying to provide a holistic overview of your entire collection using metrics like max power, skins, rank 30, etc. that are simply never going to be built into the actual game UI.
Beyond that, we think that being able to compete against other collectors for the title of biggest Arach Jalaal fanboy sounds like a fun idea.
