Previously our 100% category had us getting 1st place in all events (including World Tour), achieving Platinum in all DC challenges and completing all Battersea missions. Proposing new changes as follows:
Category Name
Renaming 100% -> Max%. This is because in the "Stats" section of the game the "Career Progress" stat can be at 100%, which does not track DC challenges and other events found in the career section. Max% is more distinctive for the conditions of what this category entails.
Category Conditions
Changing the category conditions to the following- After the run is completed, verify the category by navigating to the main menu -> My Dirt -> Stats and scroll down to the "Career" section. Show that the following stats have reached the expected values:
- Career Progress: 100%
- Season Finals Won: 4/4
- DC Challenges Beaten: 26/26
- Missions: 80/80
This way the max% conditions are explicitly defined by the game rather than ye old moderators. This is pretty much similar to the old category conditions with one notable difference, in that DC challenges just need to be beaten, instead of getting Platinum. Other than the Platinum icon, there is no in-game statistic that this applies to, and even making a triangle section golden does not need anything more than just a pass on the challenge. Therefore, because the game does not appear to care about the rank of DC challenges for any kind of % completion, it's proposed that we don't as well. This not only makes run verification easier but will also make runs faster as Gymkhana Skip can be applied to a variety of DC challenges and allows one-shotting of those challenges instead of potentially having to retry multiple times for Platinum. Another point to consider is that for a notable subset of the challenges, specifically any of the timed challenges, the Gymkhana skip doesn't work. Meaning that the optimal strat is to platinum those anyway.
This would also mean that DLC would be mandatory to run the category, as DLC is required for the 100% Career Progress requirement. Although this is an accessibility issue, given the delisted nature of the game making it's most easily acquired on the high seas, and how the DLC was given out for free to PC users when the GFWL version was deprecated, I suspect most runners would have access to the DLC or can acquire access to the DLC without too many issues. This would also mean that upon completion of the run all the pyramids would be nice and golden for that fully complete feeling.
Breaks
As the run would be extremely long, breaks are encouraged to ensure runners aren't hurting themselves for the sake of timing. Therefore I have borrowed the Super Mario Odyssey break timing rule to apply to the Max% category only. The specifics of these break rules can be read in the Max% category ruleset.
You will see that the category has been updated to this new ruleset, but as there are no runs on that board, if there's any community disagreement over these proposed changes they can easily be updated. Please reply in this thread if you have any comment or if you have any reasons to disagree to these proposed changes, thank you.
Said my opinion on the discord server, but gotta say it here too:
Im FOR enforcing platinums.
1 - Below Plat would just ruin the point of TRUE 100%
2 - For most speedrunners, it wouldnt be a trouble. If it is a trouble, just a few practice runs'll make it a lot easier. So i wouldnt say it's a big chokepoint or anything
Added the following extra amendments as per feedback here-
Turn all event pyramids gold and achieve a Platinum medal for each DC Challenge event.
(After stats verification) Next, navigate to each DC Challenge event to show that a Platinum medal has been achieved for each, or provide timestamps upon submission for when each Platinum medal was achieved (the former is preferred). *Note that if this verification process isn't followed after the run is completed, your run won't be rejected however it will take a lot longer for verifiers to accept the run.
