Hi! Welcome to the ETS2 speedrunning community and thanks for the question. We are always open to suggestions. Ideally, if you want to add a new category, it's best to submit a video of sample run of such category (to avoid empty categories, consistent with the City-City suggestions recommendations here)

Hi! No, sorry. I wasn't retiming it as it was a run that wouldn't be accepted anyways. But if you are interested, you can retime it yourself following this guide: https://www.speedrun.com/ets2/guide/t3kqv

Hi, thanks for the question and suggestion.

However, I am not quite sure what exactly do you mean by "modded runs". What would be an objective of such speedrun? If you want a category to be added, you should ideally first run it yourself or link to an already existing run.

In addition to that, AJChimaera, our speedrun.com moderator, is not really in favour of runs that are using modifications to the base game as it is hard to check what exactly the active modification does.

Personally, I in general agree with that, but if you have an interesting idea, please don't be encouraged by that and feel free to suggest it.

"You are required to discover all of the capital cities available in the specified DLC mode."

If I understand correctly, if the country's capital isn't in the game, you simply skip the country

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Yeah, I was thinking the same. I have always thought that it could/should be leaving the pad, so I was always thinking why are not other people taking the advantage of it

Jup, that should be it. It is about gearbox + engine combo