California, USAWe do have glitches as a column, and a runner can have two times on each leaderboard, one with glitches and one without. The current top time is by Johnny O Than, 6 hours. We voted to consider infinite money with contracts an exploit, not a glitch, known as the "Money Laundering Exploit."
These were consolidated to make the categories more organized, especially since this game has a problem of having too many categories. We can consider changing it back. You can also look at just one at a time by using filters.
- KSP has 426 days in a year, but the rules say 365. 99999 days = 234 KSP years.
- KSP1 leaderboards considered moons (except Mun) and planets as "Levels", which made the leaderboards more organized and separating full-game runs and challenge runs (like Island Express). It might help doing it here.
- Many sub-categories need updated rules. For example, the Mun category rules say to reach 70km and explode.
Edit: These have been fixed.
100%: Collect all powerups, complete the big ball segment in Daramulum, and collect all 9 fireworks in Coelus. It forces the player to play most of the levels we normally skip.
Ball Only: Any%, not allowed to press the input to glide. To avoid accidental presses, change the hotkey for gliding to something you won't press. This category has all different methods for using hills, which makes it pretty unique with routing potential. When in water, aim the camera up to increase buoyancy.
Post attempts of alternate categories. If multiple people are interested, it may be considered for a new category.
Re-timing results: 4 PB segments (Se, Q, N1, O), Largest time loss is Darwin (1m 39s), new balanced goal 27:35
This is a neat glitchless strategy to get quick acceleration. I'd like to see this tried for Island Express. Using the cubic struts as shielding is interesting too.
Sure, I guess All Forts No WW could be a category extension if there's enough interest for it.
Category extensions (https://www.speedrun.com/smb3ce) can be great too!
Stratzenblitz75 has a pretty solid run of that: Unfortunately they use info mods, so it wouldn't count on the leaderboard. Actually, TheWolfIan did a run and said he was 6th place. I should probably add this category to Misc.
You mean circumnavigating Kerbin while staying below 70km and periapsis below 0km? I guess that would be IGT. I could see that being a challenge rather than a speedrun, because you could calculate the optimal time just from that info. We do challenges like that once in a while in the Discord.
I just got The Game of Life 2, and I'm almost considering speedrunning it, but I also don't feel like being a moderator for it.
I enjoyed playing Tanooki Pacifist with save states. I imagine it's doable with enough practice, but the skill ceiling is quite high. Same with 100% Coinless, which I'm trying to achieve. Some categories like this might work better as just a Challenge Run rather than a speedrun though.
No WW coinless is pretty boring. It's all about 100% coinless. I've done it many times with save states, and my fewest is $12. There are some pretty unique challenges, like 3-3, Hand 2, and the hardest part: the end card in 5-7.
It turns out I underestimated. My best Undetected Normal Difficulty time is over 5 hours, split into two runs for North and South. One annoying thing is if you get detected, you have to finish before you can reset the outposts. I'm taking a break from attempts, but I plan to get back into it once I finish some other gaming projects. Update: Here is my All Outposts Undetected in 3h 20m on Normal difficulty. If this were a miscellaneous category, it would probably need to be Master difficulty. I'll be working on that next.
Windows is technically faster, but both versions are popular.
I'm practicing clearing the outposts undetected, inspired by Clockner's videos. I imagine a Outpost% (regular or undetected) speedrun could start from clicking "Reset Outposts" and end when they're all captured. The nice thing about this is it's repeatable. All weapons and skills can be unlocked beforehand. I might do a few rounds, then do a proof-of-concept run in the future. I imagine I'd get on the order of 1 hour. Edit: lol "1 hour" more like 3.
