As far as developers coding time, I suspect there may be a line of code that says "If player score is zero, then don't print player to list. The coding is then very simple, --remove that line of code.--
My concern is what other lines of code there are that affect the tournament reporting on a server-wide level. I know it's very doable, this suggestion of yours. But I'm concerned with server load time given that this game makes changes to the tournament reports on a real-time basis. You clear a star, the report immediately updates and shows your point increase. Oh, sure, there might be a five second lag, but there's no one-hour wait like there is for changes in the event spending to determine where you are in the leagues of an event at any given moment.
There's been mention that ES already generates this report. ES does so at the end of a tournament, and only has to pull the information one time during the week. They do pull it directly from the game for all 8 servers, and sometimes it glitches and there's no data for a player, an FS, or an entire world for a week. Then people going to FS and looking at your profile there are asking why you didn't participate in a specific tourney if you're new. (And I was met with radio silence when I pointed out two glitches in one e-mail: the planks tourney was listed as marble for [US5] for 27 Feb and the tourney numbers are entirely absent for 6 Mar. Since I never heard anything and nothing was done about it, I didn't bother reporting that there were no numbers for 5 June.)
The game would be generating this report in real time, so one your cons here isn't just "developer time" (because removing that line of code, debugging, and then testing to make sure they didn't break the game before even putting the new code in front of beta players
does take time away from a different project), it's "server load". If you can assure me that the game wouldn't become even more 'laggy' (
bug 1,
bug 2,
bug 3, complaint-turned-suggestion), then I wouldn't have a reason to vote no on this proposal myself. It doesn't affect me one way or the other if it doesn't hinder my game play as I'm not an AM and I'm not getting a -0- score.