so recently there have been a few new speedruns, and because the rules are a bit ambiguous, some of the runs have been questionable. this has made me think about how the speedrun should be done, and what changes would take it from being extremely luck based to being more skill based. the idea I came up with is to exclude runs where the player finds a dead body with a bunch of meat, or kills an afk high tier animal. there were a few reasons I think these should be good changes:
- It makes cheating runs through using tabs much harder almost near impossible
- It eliminates the huge but rare advantage of just finding a dead body from a bot which gives a huge boost in score, literally cutting down a run by over 20 seconds
- It encourages making actual strategies for speedruns, instead of hoping for a lucky run, since I think that goes against what a speedrun should be
If during the run you managed to actually kill someone, then the run would still count, but because finding bodies makes runs too luck based, making skilled runs almost redundant and encouraging cheating, I think that there should be a separate category for runs that find meat or an afk player.
anyways, if anyone reads this on here I want to hear what U think