Getting a bit sick of repeating this, and I run it a lot less often than the other people here. Must be incredibly frustrating for them. I feel like this game is very aggravating to run for most categories (due to rng) I may have to try level 50 mines a bit more but I feel that will be the same. I think bundles will be the least rng run but they are going to be long which is offputting for me. Very conflicted with this game atm.

I think 50k was a great initially fun run, but now that it has been pretty optimized its loosing the appeal. At first it was fun to figure out which crop to farm, how much and how to go about doing it, but now we are in an area where only really good rng will get you times you want. And I agree that all other runs seem a little daunting in there length. Personally I don't have the time to put in to route them and run them often, so Im waiting till some routes get found and I will modify the ones I like.

I don't want to tell you not to play, but if you aren't finding any enjoyment in running it, I wouldn't continue to do it. You will just end up hating speed runs for this game if not hating the game itself.

this is another one of the reasons i had the idea for cropless, i thought it would be a more complex alternative to the original category with multiple different strats.

Honestly, 50k earnings is kind of arbitrary, and its a bland run. You don't do much, just sleep mostly...

Why not track 50k earnings by in-game days, with ties decided by gold difference, and further ties decided by real-time taken? This gives a lot more room for optimization, I believe?