More importantly, this incident made me realize the incompleteness of the leaderboard rules and the need to specify certain details. In a sense, I want to thank Yuuka for this. Yes, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, KazamiYuuka, for providing a perfect example of what NOT to do that will stay in the hall of shame for others to see. After thorough consideration, I decide to post the new rules that will be applied to all categories in this announcement. Here are the additions to the current rules: 1. Do NOT add, delete, or modify any game files, and by “any”, I mean ANY. Do not edit certain files so that you can change game speed in the campaign. Do not replace the Ares files included in an official release with other versions. You can use the official Chinese/Russian language pack and the official soundtrack, of course. Using unofficial translation patches is NOT allowed. Using your own mix files for soundtrack is discouraged, but still allowed. This should be common sense IMOH, but at the end of the day, the very notion of “common sense” is rather subjective. Therefore, it’s not a bad idea to make things clearer on issues like this. Negative examples: https://www.speedrun.com/mo/run/m3dxo0wz https://www.speedrun.com/mo/run/yj4j8qdy

If you want to submit a run with in-game time, you need to either include the evaluation screen or the internal frame counter from Livespit (http://livesplit.github.io/) in you video; the latter is preferred since it removes the influence of lagging. You can still submit a run if there is no proof of the actual in-game time, but it can only go by the real time in this case. If an existing run with no proof of its in-game time is slower than a newer run with faster real time, the the in-game time of the former will be removed so that it can be surpassed by the later.

So… yeah, that’s about it for the rule specification. Not a lot, actually. An important reminder: Speedrunning is a cooperative hobby, and the sharing of strategies is an important part of it. Your strats aren’t copyrighted or anything. If you don’t want others to use your strats, you probably shouldn’t upload the video at the first place. Negative example: https://www.speedrun.com/mo/run/ydqkr30m

Last but not least, thanks everyone who participated in speedrunning Mental Omega in legitimate ways. As of this point, Mental Omega has the highest player count and 5th highest run count of all C&C games on the site. This would not happen without you guys. Hopefully, more people will join in the future!

7/4/2018 Fortranm

Edit: 3. External tools that affect actual game play are NOT allowed. This includes auto-clickers. 6/6/2020