Hey there - am new to speedrunning and to this community. Spent my whole day today just learning the Green Zone - Trader Legacy category. Best I could do is 29 minutes.

Have watched FDGB do runs quite a bit, and after witnessing a 1h45m lethal run get ruined by the RNG of Legacy Quests, and after a lot of my own runs were ruined by the same thing today, I'm a bit frustrated.

I can't help but feel the need to ask this community why there's not just an "All Hearts" category that removes the extreme RNG of legacy quests (the time it takes them to spawn, the distance enclaves are from you/each other, etc.) - just seems like the logical choice considering how janky they are.

We make the rules, not sure why we're making each other suffer through something as ridiculous as that with the way things currently are in the game.

Gimme your thoughts, would love to speedrun this game in an All Hearts Category... But after today, there's no shot that I'm gonna keep doing legacy runs. Too much randomness for those to be included in speed runs I think.

I do agree a heart% category would be nice, but at the same time I feel like that would not fit for the main leaderboards honestly. If a category extensions page were to be made I think that would be cool, and a perfect place for a heart% cat.

Completely separate category makes sense to me, definitely don't want to disrupt the integrity of what has been mainstream in the community :)

It does sound like it could be a good idea, and even if it just got placed under the Misc. tab alongside the Pre Update 25 tab. I do feel like that would definitely be a bit of an easier intro to speed running this game as like said above you don't have to worry about the RNG of the legacy missions. The only issue that I can see with a category like that is that it probably wouldn't be that long of a category especially seeing as the full game with legacy quests is an average of 25-30 minutes on lowest difficulty, and most of that time is waiting for the legacy quests. As a result it would probably only be about 10 minutes or so for a heart only category.

I'll add to the list of runners who would like a hearts only subcategory. There's nothing like smashing through the hearts only to hit anywhere from a 4 to 12-minute wait for the final quest to drop. Talk about causing players to want to rage quit. LOL.