Howdy, I love level runs, however many cannot dedicate the amount of time needed to do full runs longer than 1-20 as shown by the inactivity in the leaderboards. I'd suggest adding/editing it to be 1-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, etc.

With this run style, the same rules would apply as the other level runs, however the difference being that:

1. a player can take a break after reaching that milestone

2. when going on the next trek of the run, they must be the same level, with the same amount of experience as when they left off.

3. to keep it fair, only characters that have had runs submitted before could compete again for these future runs. (i.e. you can't have a random lvl 20 character do a lvl 20-30 run as we cannot verify if they followed the rules of the run for that character)

Additional Rules

a) after finishing the run, they must show what their experience is at and the state of their inventory

b) before starting the next leg of the run, they must show what their experience is at and the state of their inventory

c) same rules apply as other leveling runs.

I understand that the additional levelling runs can indeed be very long however the main problem i see with your suggestion is that it would make it very hard to verify the authenticity of the run since there is no way to ensure no actions happened off-screen that could affect the run.

As a reminder there is a rule that allows runners to take breaks during runs that are longer than 3 hours.

I know this isnt perfect but i think its the most feasible way to still ensure a valid run.

For more info about the break rules you can read the 'break rule for long runs' forum post.

I understand, that's why I suggested rules to check the amount of xp a player has in between runs and showing their inventory to ensure everything is the same and that nothing was done in between.

FFXIV does this but there is an option to have a variable that allows for Multi-Segment runs. Might be helpful if this is something the leaderboard mods were willing to consider for the extra long runs (thinking 8+ hr runs)

Im sceptical there would be many people willing to do a run that's several hours long since there have only been 2 people who have done an 'additional levelling' run in the last several years.

I doubt someone would do a 8 hour run in segments if they're not even willing to do a sub-3 hour run in one sitting.

ff14 does indeed have the option to do multi-segmented runs but that's in a category that is 13+ hours long. most levelling categories would not be anywhere near that long.

I think it would be possible to make multi-segmented runs work however there doesn't seem to be enough interest in it that it would warrant further complicating the rules right now.

I understand, thank you for hearing us out