Due to how much you've played/what decks you've bought, menuing can be slower, and give players an unfair advantage. In my opinion, a timer should have to be going to give the total time taken (to discourage spliced runs) but the time for WR should actually count for how long you completed each individual level.

(regarding gold cup)

I have thought about doing something like this. In my opinion, it would make timing the run a lot more difficult. I'm also not sure if there is still an igt at the end of battles now, but originally I was thinking about adding a separate category for in game time.

I will brew on this a little bit and try to test some things. if it does happen, i will be consider it a separate category from what we have now.

It isn't impossible to add up time for each individual level. Someone can still gauge a potential WR run by having the timer go the whole time and add up time later for each of the levels.

It could potentially be stressful, and inaccurate to have individual times added up between AI Trainers.

A better way of going about this is creating a separate account(s) that is meant for speedrunning altogether.

As long as you don't manipulate the game, or use it in any form to take advantage of in-game mechanics, bugs, etc., you'll be fine.

That doesn't really make sense, OU7C4ST. That means they gotta unlock decks each time, and have to beat other leagues again to even get that advantage.

Again, I suggest time should be retimed after and added for each individual levels. It only makes sense.

it makes perfect sense, actually. do you really think mods want to go into every run and go in and frame count for every frame youre in a loading screen or in a menu? yeah that shit is hard and especially with how much youre in menus and in loading screens. and that goes triple for a game of this size. i personally wouldnt want to do that and im pretty sure you wouldnt want to do that if you were a mod or if you did it for your own runs. its a big hastle and in my opinion, a waste of time. real time right now is fine its just paying attention and knowing how to do a menu every so often.

an alternative would be if you or someone coded a automatic IGT or load remover for livesplit which would make everything a lot easier on everyone but not too many people know how to do that and if someone did know how to do it, they probably wouldnt but who knows.

tl;dr - RTA is fine for the run and the timing makes sense. you can just make a new profile.

Sometimes you have to put effort into a game if you want to speed-run it.

My alternative is leagues better than what you want implemented in my opinion, and I believe the general consensus of the other runners, and moderator also agrees with that.

RTA is fine. Just spend a day or two unlocking what you need to do, if you actually want to speedrun this game seriously. I myself created a new account, and went through the process as well. It's really not that difficult.