Hello, I hope both of you Blazy_dude and ChargedSquid see this. I'm quite impressed by both of your improvements to the speedrun of Alter since its... humble starts with me, but I can't deny I see something funny going on.
It's obvious you've both incorporated a strategy of vertically shortening the window of the game on FlashPlayer in order to engage in the conversation earlier than normally possible. I'm not going to disallow that of course, but I am wondering about dividing the category into one which allows this, as FlashPlayer seems the only possible way to play the game as of now, but also have a category which preserves the web spirit of the game by either forcing a specific aspect ratio or ignoring the outside content if not. I was hoping to get your comment on it, what do you think about it.
I'm also thinking of maybe even creating a 100% category once I figure out what that would actually entail (I've never completed the side quests personally).
So guys, whatcha think?
It may be a good idea to split that skip into a different section as i had not considered that wouldnt be possible in the original browser game, although I am not sure if this game is popular enough to deserve another leaderboard section
But I don't think that the 100% would be worth it, as there isnt a specific way to determine it, there is one side quest with the little monsters, but you have the choice to either grow or shrink them for different effects on the karma system, and I would not be sure if 100% would include interacting with all objects that effect karma.
Spiltting the leaderboard would be a good idea since vertically shortening wasn't possible in original web game. But like ChargedSquid said game isn't probably isn't popular enough. But if it is added making sub category (For example in Run, you can choose speed, chacter and version on main category) would be a good idea cause if new categories added like 100% spiltting them would be easier.
100% would be good but like ChargedSquid said there isn't any way to determine it. Since main collectables, octobearpus, doesn't show how much you need to or did collect. If 100% would be a thing we need to decide what is required (like collecting every octobearpus, talking to every npc etc.). And karma system makes it more complicated.
(btw thanks for making my run 4.54)
That are reasonable points, I'll leave it as it is then it seems. Regardless of popularity I still wouldn't mind adding 100% anyway, just for some variety, but yeah the criteria are rather vague so for now I'll withdraw that one.
(And also, of course Blazy_dude, I'm retiming each run by myself, which as a note, due to a weird technicality of my retiming method, would actually be easier if ChargedSquid were not to cut their runs so early.)
