Wow, Im glad that I decided to hear your opinions, because I was being extremely silly, sorry! Indeed, eventually everyone would pick the best car for speedrunning, so me trying to control it was just nonsense. These irrational thoughts are so scary! xD

Thank you Splaysh and RocketToMars for working with my insanity and helping me decide :P all back to normal then.

Let's just race indeed!

Sorry, re-reading my post is clear that I was a bit rude, but it wasnt my intention. I was actually thinking of the people that still own the very first released pod cds, but now that I think more about it, they would have to update their game anyway unless they REALLY wanted to play on the veeeery specific hardware of the time, which is doubtful. But I still dont understand why you want to allow the extra vehicles anyway, do you mind giving a little bit more reasoning? I ask because, like I said, there have been versions with the extra 16 vehicles but they differ from the pod gold ones... its just really messy and its really hard to make a decision. Should I just allow all the vehicles then? I feel like it will be really boring to see everyone picking the best car... Im leaning more towards to just allowing all the cars now instead of dividing the categories...

I gave you my reasoning, being that there have been many game versions, including some that come preloaded with 16 cars also, but different ones that POD Gold has. My research was on very old game forums, so it made more sense to just keep the base 8, since all versions come with that. Now its your turn to give your reasoning to not like that change (sorry to assume, but your questioning made no sense), and I hope is not because youre biased towards some vehicles.

Sorry to change the subject, lads, but just a heads up that, after doing much research on the game, Ive decided to only allow the original base 8 vehicles when speedrunning the entire championship, just to try and keep some consistency, since there have been many game versions. Nothing changed for IL's leaderboards.

Also, ive seen this run (), and thought it was really neat, but Im not sure if I should allow something like that for future runs. I would like to allow it, tbh... Those exploits are normal in speedrunning either way, but since Ive seen mixed opinions on it from the past, Id like to hear what you think.

Cheers!

That sounds like a good idea, actually! Now should it be the base 8 cars; 16? And it really means nothing that we have the old times, since we dont even know how they were set. You cant just presume they were valid.

Sorry, but what is "BTH"?

Also, I dont agree with your "evidently" statement, since it is evidently not evident. :P

Dang, then I dont know what we should do... Should we only allow the base 8? It would be really boring to see everyone using the same vehicle, but thats just an opinion, which is subjective...

Hey, Splaysh! Yup, its fine, since the game allows you to change the vehicles' stats either way... have fun! Will be waiting for your submissions :D Cheers!

Since the game allows it, I don't see the problem. Will update the rules to make it clear that it is allowed.

Hey, man, no need to be so apologetic! I'm learning about the game as much as you are! I didn't mean to come across as passive-aggressive, though it may seem that way when writing, unfortunately.

It wasn't really an issue, more like to be clear as to what you're running... My logic was that, once your fastest lap finished, I saw the 3 Laps and it confused me for a second... You know what I mean? Since we have both options, might as well use it. Let's try this way, at least for now. Especially because of the sectors. I also agree about championship laps being valid, but I don't think it would be fair, you know? For example, my Midtown Madness speedrun broke tons of individual levels' records, but I wasn't trying to, so I didn't think it was fair to beat others' records that way since they're different categories... I don't know, maybe I'm being too strict here, but it feels wrong. Moreover, it seems that there wouldn't be any different strategies anyway, and it's just you and me that are running this, thus far, sooo... Tell me your thoughts!

And about my setup, I just felt like 50/50 (on "Hard". On "Normal" I used 45/55 and "Easy" 40/60) would be pretty good for most races, since you can't change your setup mid-championship (Edit: actually, you can. Just forgot about it, since I didn't.)... For Individual Levels, different setups would definitely be ideal... I'm sure you would agree.

And don't worry about forgetting to add the setup, I've edited them in for you.

Cheers, buddy! :D

Don't mention it :D

Thank you for looking into that. I (and future runners, I'm sure) truly appreciate it.

About the AI, if you watch my "Hard" run, you'll notice that they're a tiny bit faster anyway. They got "fastest lap" a few times, and caught up to me frequently... Rubber banding, maybe?

Now, about your runs, I have accepted them, BUT, for future reference, could you please do "Time Attack" in "FREE RUN" mode and "3 Laps" in the "3 LAPS" mode, just so it is easier to differentiate between them and doesn't confuse future viewers/runners?

Also, I've realized that showing the vehicle chosen and it's stats on video, while time attacking, might be really annoying, therefore, next time, while time attacking, could you please put, on your run's description, the name of your vehicle and what are it's stats? I have no idea if I could replicate your runs reliably (judging by your "3 Laps" run, I'm assuming you used Saber with 100/0/80/20/100. Could you please confirm it?). I will update the rules on "Time Attack" to reinforce this.

I hope you understand, but if you have a different idea, I'm all ears :D

Cheers!

Excellent! Thank you for all your info, man! Indeed, I meant the base 8 since I never tested any other addon vehicles, because none of them pleased me... And that's also why I wrote "at least for now", because I wasn't sure if the other cars were also only cosmetic. I was worried about the truck, for example. Thank you once again for your feedback, buddy! Looking forward to your submissions :)

-Removed difficulties from IL -Added "Time Attack" & "3 Laps" categories -Enabled "Time in MS" -Updated all rules

Yes! Its my bad, I forgot to add them... Give me about 10 minutes. Glad interest was shown really quickly :D cant wait, buddy!