@tyshoe I think what player209 and I try to explain is, that in Any% rules don't make much sense, because you can always have a friend helping you with you run WITHOUT making it obvious (like placing food in certain houses, pacing 2 or 3 epipens in the hospital before you arrive etc.)

Same with the new Kill categrory (kill player): How do u want to make sure that the killed person is not the streamers/speedrunners friend? If you can't make sure things, you have to drop the rules for that, otherwise the rules don't make sense because you cannot proove / disprove the abuse of them.

I also delivered other examples in my previous post.

So my I heavily support Player209's first suggestion to split runs in "true solo any%" with rules and "multiplayer any%" without rules (watch his last sentence in his opening post).

I really support this suggestion.

In the actual state you can just have a friend waiting for you to spawn at a certain spawn and hand you over everything u need (vegetarian food, epipens) to finish the run as fast as possible in all 4 categories.

You could also populate an empty official server with 59 friends / accounts and let them stay afk to manipulate the actual population rule (high/full).

There should also be in the rules how to behave at a server restart (pause timer or not?).

Last thought: Maybe differentiate between 1st/3rd person?