Imo, TTR isn’t the best game to speedrun. The way it is rn, it’s extremely linear and luck based, to the point it can frankly be pretty boring to watch and play. Looking at other runs, I’ve always thought we could benefit from allowing them. But, I’ve seen in previous threads that clipping and glitches and similar things are banned because it goes against the TOS. When I looked at the TOS myself, however, I noticed that it specifically said that it wasn’t allowed for hurting other player exp and making the game unfair. I thought that, being a speedrun, no other toons game exp would be hurt and therefor things like glitch runs and any% should be legal. To be sure, though, I messaged TTR support asking them, and they responded, confirming my thoughts. This is what they said.
“Here in Toontown Rewritten, we define things like bugs or glitches to be harmless actions that provide no obvious benefit to the player, while also not hindering other's experiences playing the game. The most common example would be getting into the skybox in Donalds Dreamland. It doesn't hurt the game or other players, so it's perfectly fine!
An exploit or cheating would be an action that hinders or harms other players experiences while playing and progressing through the game. An example of this would be skipping to the last battle in a DA Office and leaving your Toon pals in the dust. It's not fun or fair to them, so it violates this rule.
In your example, if you are by yourself and you are doing things like clipping through a wall, that is okay as long as you are not with another player hindering their experience!”
Therefore, I’m asking the mods to start allowing glitches, clipping and exploits to be used in TTR speedruns.
Alright so I'll start by saying this: I'm not against the idea of allowing glitches at all. I do think it would make runs more interesting and I agree as long as what you're doing doesn't hurt other people playing the game, it's acceptable. However, just because they say some glitches can be used or activated freely doesn't mean they will last forever. They're always updating the game and they can always remove glitches, whether they're harmful or not. Therefore, that would make it unfair for future runners because they can't use the same glitches that past runners have used before.
Also, because the game has been around for decent time, there are probably not very many glitches left to use in any part of the game, so I don't think it's even worth it to make glitches allowed anyway. If for some reason we do allow glitches, you should understand that we could potentially remove glitched runs from the leaderboards because the game updates and they've gotten rid of glitches that were used in such runs. That being said, I'll probably leave this to Connor or someone else to decide since I'm one of the newer mods and they could maybe give a bit more thought into this.
