If I were to propose anything, I feel adding some form of "penalty" to the time is the fairest way to show the change of rule and still keep the runs up. I don't know the actual time it would typically take to do that end segment, but I feel like 10-20 minutes added on to the runs in the leader boards with some kind of note mentioning the rule change is a fair compromise that doesn't invalidate the effort put in to these old runs.

I think there was a chance I purposely omitted that part of the run since it seems to be just walking down a corridor and mashing through text which isn't inherently fun or skillful and just adds a small "the end" screen after the credits had rolled and the option for free play. It was too long ago to confirm that since twitch vods (and my slightly old man memory) don't get maintained for over 2 years and I only highlighted my best time when I was satisfied with the time I achieved.

Regardless this is your leader boards now and I have no intentions on running the game anytime soon if ever again, so it's completely up to you how to handle it from here.

Rule changes should never be handled quickly. It's absolutely absurd to invalidate runs without any sort of real discussion. If there was any attempt to actually check in with the runners on the board I could take an apology here, but this entire conversation happened in less then a 24 hour time frame and that frankly is unacceptable to me.

I submitted an old run in the hopes that people would see my run when they searched for the category and maybe consider running it based on having some form of example for what is possible, but now there is no such example all because of a rule change I had no say in. Just because only 2 runs were being removed is no where near a valid reason to rush through a rule change without any sort of attempt to take take in other potential opinions.

I'm incredibly angry that a mod of any game would clear a leaderboard like that without even attempting to contact runners on the board and only taking the input of people who are "interested" in running the game after a couple hours of discussion. I had a tiny bit of interest in running the game again once I cleared my back log of games a bit, but seeing a rule change be implemented like this without any attempt to reach out to runners for their opinions has really soured any care to get back into it.

I just wanna throw out there that the normal goal of an any% run is to make the credits play hence why the initial timing was the way it was for me. It's been so long since I played this game so I have no idea if I even knew about the other ending, but figured I'd throw my 2 cents into the discussion.

I added a no load times column. If anyone wants to re time the old runs feel free, but for now I'm leaving that column empty.

Back in April I did a run to hatch the dragonache that I called dragon% at the time. http://www.twitch.tv/branlan/c/6454448 I only recorded one run because this run made me realize how RNG heavy finding the egg was. I'm not sure if it has been discussed, but I was considering doing a run to level 31 (the level the credits are unlocked) as that seemed the closest to an any% without the terrible RNG ending. Thoughts?