I could make the suggestion that we make it "finish all missions". That's what the game constitutes as 100%. Also that means that we won't need to look for gold anywhere or buy all the items.

I've dusted off my PS2 copy and taken a look at the stats and there is indeed a 100%. So that should definetly be a catogory.

The problem with 100% is that I can't find an official guide anywhere. If its only the side missions you have to do then that would be good.

I'll start getting into 100% soon. I'm going to just start with the side missions and see what percentage I can end up with. If mining gold and poker and other miscellaneous tasks are required, then I have no problem routing it. I managed to route Red Dead Redemption 100% in a week so this shouldn't be too hard.

I would still like to know if the gold mining and other tasks are officially part of 100% aside from the side missions. Because if they aren't then they shouldn't be in the rules. 

Regarding the difficulty, this is a speedrunning board. Just do the run on the easiest difficulty and beat 100%. 

This paragraph regards Piston's mining idea. If you want a good tip on how to route them (IF REQUIRED FOR 100%) then see this next text below:

What I did for RDR 100% for Treasure was I completed a mission and figured out the closest mission end for that specific treasure. In GUN, you need to buy the pickaxe from the store in Dodge City to be able to mine. Learn where every single one of them is, break them down into regions (e.g. Blackfoot Camp) and figure out whether to get them before or after a mission.

The game gives you 100% if you beat the main mission and the side missions. Buying the items or mining the gold is not necessary to get 100% in-game.

Then mining gold and anything else should be out of the rules. I wouldn't even mind if the category was deleted and All Missions was kept.

I guess, I mean, if someone wanted to do a run where you mine all the gold and buy all the items as well, I don't see a problem with having that as a category. However, I can't imagine a lot of people would want to do that.

I don't think many people would be into that. I reckon we scrap 100% and just have All Missions since gold mining and such have no part of 100%.

well, I wasn't proposing that we ban getting upgrades for ASM. Currently getting one pistol upgrade in the any% strat I use.

Hmm difficult topic to discuss. I'm going to leave Piston to it as he obviously knows more about the game and I have another thing to continue routing. Not sure why Racingmonster added me as a mod as I won't be really useful tbh.

Maybe we could just name them differently? Like in-game 100% vs actual 100% or something, considering that is the actual difference. Just to make it a bit clearer, you know