Maryland, USAI don't know if this option already exists, but the site needs it. It should be optional to receive notifications for a tied record in a category, instead of getting dozens of notifications of someone "breaking" a record.
Hey all,
I've added categories for all the different ways to win the game (except Europe Domination, which is really the Any%). Let me know if I missed one.
Happy running!
I recognize that there are no current rules for 'Draw' variations, so I want to clarify what the rules are currently, and open the floor to any suggestions.
Currently, any variation of 'Draw' is legal for all games that have it as an option. I don't think it changes the nature of the game, and only increases playability. I may add it as a variable to distinguish games played under different settings, but I have no intention to make it a different subcategory. If there's interest in that, let me know.
However, pressing 'Redeal' after changing this is still required. The logic is that while the menu is open, the game is paused and technically the board can be studied. By adding in the 'Redeal' requirement, you should never have a situation where the game is paused on a shuffle that will be played. So really, the rule should be a 'Redeal' is required whenever the menu is open, however I know that will lead to frustrating situations. I want to pre-empt that. Accidently opening the menu currently does not require this, but I don't want to allow an exploitable loophole either. I know menu-ing is extremely frustrating to do, especially when New Game is also required every time.
Lastly, I became a moderator only because the last guy went inactive. I'm happy to stay in this role as an active impartial verifier, but I don't claim to have any special knowledge of this game. If the community ever wants another moderator (replacement or additional), I'm happy to accommodate. As always, the rules and moderation should be community driven, so I will try to be as transparent as possible about my process.
I'll be more clear about it in the Game rules. I have a number of reasons I prefer to keep the New Game requirement, but if the community feels otherwise I'm ok with changing it.
However, a change in that rule would have to applied across the board. Secondly, subtracting the timestamps would be inconsistent and provide sub-second ambiguity between runs. e.g. If you hit "Redeal" at the bottom of the second, vs. at the top of the second, you'd effectively be starting an entire second ahead or behind, which matters with runs this short. Really the only way to resolve that would be switching to RTA timing, which I'm hoping to avoid.
I'm excited to see a bunch of new runners! No idea where everyone came from suddenly, but I hope it stays this way.
I've added a subcategory now for runs that use a mouse (whether on an emulator or the [Mario Paint] SNES mouse). This should keep the competition going for those that don't want to pay to win.
If activity stays up and if I get around to it, I'll make a discord for the game. If one already exists, someone please send me the link.
Also, I realize the game could be broken if someone figures out an easy set-up, enters the code for that game, and just optimizes that one set-up. To keep in the spirit of the game, I'm currently banning that, although I'd be open to making it another sub-category.
If anybody has any moderation suggestions, please let me know!
Hi webz! The reason is because when you restart by pressing "Redeal" you are not consistently starting on an even second. For example, you could start with a timer that's at 55.8 rather than 56.0 and so simply subtracting the later time from the first time is no longer accurate. Redeal is still required when playing a nonstandard variant, because otherwise moves could be made on an incorrect setting. Starting with New Game creates a consistent standard for everyone.
Requesting moderation of https://www.speedrun.com/twilight_struggle
I've submitted two runs to the board 22 days ago without verification, and no message from the single mod after I messaged them 6 days ago. It also hasn't been active in the past two years anyways.
All Castles seems to be the mostly intended route
I also didn't get the mouse to work on original hardware, in any configuration. It does work for Super Solitaire (which is why I bought it) so I know the hardware is not faulty, but obviously this game wasn't programmed to be compatible.
Looks like it won't be an issue for Math Blaster then.
Just wanted to check if the SNES mouse that comes with Mario Paint would be allowed on the leaderboards? Still technically original hardware.
On that note, I'd like to add a variable to the games to show whether they were played with a mouse or not. This'd also make emulator games easier to integrate into the leaderboard, but it's significant enough of a difference from the regular controller that I think it should be noted. Thoughts?
I'm good with setting that up. I've played a little of each and I only had fun on one of them (I think it was pyramid), but the games exist so there might as well be categories for them.
To make a more approachable category, and because apparently people on Speedrunslive race this (http://www.speedrunslive.com/gamelist/#!/opneptune/1), I decided to include a Fossil Trench category.
Basically it's just the first two zones, Dragon Reef and Fossil Trench. Right now the category has all the other variables applied, but if I can figure out how to edit it, I'd make it exclusively DOS, Normal.
The record on speedrunslive is saphaeren's 26:46, but my 43:35 run did it in 15:10 and just a trial run of mine managed to beat even that, so feel free to submit a run of any quality. This should be far easier to learn and to do.
The only thing that comes to mind is one of your rubber buttons has been punctured and is being held down. I'd recommend taking apart and cleaning the controller.
Hello. Mod is asleep on https://www.speedrun.com/super_solitaire with several months between verifications. Tried reaching out by message a week ago with no response. Request for moderation privileges.
The game I moderate (Operation Neptune) has entry when submitting for the number of players and which player the submitter is. However, the game is only ever 1 player and it's redundant.
I know other games don't have that in their submission pages so I wanted to see how I could remove it.
Anyways. I did the changes. I think it improves the board a lot.
Instead of only 2 categories, there's now 12. I doubt the hardcore ones will ever be competitive, unless multiple people get obscenely good at the game, but they provide a nice upper level challenge.
On paper, the Voyager category is about as optimized on both DOS and Windows as you're going to get without any new speedtechs. My runs suffer a lot, but I doubt the record will ever go drastically lower. Would love to see you try it again.
I'll make a few of the changes for now, including updating the rules.
Also I oppose auto-verifying my own runs on principle, so that's why I still wait to have them verified.
