Soooo right now I guess I could grind the two existing categories some more but the difference between my PBs and sums of best are within loading time variations. Maybe I still could scrap some more time but I don't feel like it. So I'll be looking into new categories, right now A Magus! and Burn It achivements are my candidates, gotta dig deeper. I thought about killing Agathoth alone but it's probably like an any% route with a bit of alchemy on top, not very interesting speedrun wise. I'm trying to find something that would deviate as much as possible from the current categories. Got any ideas?

What would be RPGs without farming? A good experience! Kappa

Sup.

I recently picked up a game, leaderboard seems dead. Got moderation, started to shake the place. This is a little early, maybe some runners come back, maybe some new people show up. But I was wondering: being the only one running, do I make my own rules? Categories? I never been in that position.

Obviously I wouldn't render previous runs obselete or make up nonsense, but there are a few things that could be improved. Mostly I'm tired of creating a new identic character for each run, and allowing to load a fresh save wouldn't hurt, virtualy the same as starting a new one. I'd also like to explore new categories, though I didn't find anything of interest as of yet.

So what I'm asking for is advice from experienced runners / moderators please. How do you handle such situation? I'll wait and see if I get returns from the community, but for now I am the whole community...

Assets mostly from the game, often modified, for the theme here. They include the ones I didn't end up using, like an alternative background and 1st 2nd 3rd icons (none of them work well once tiny, I kept the cups anyway).

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Hello!

I see fancy forum posts with nice formatting and I was wondering if that was available to write guides. I couldn't find any reference sheet anywhere. Does anyone knows how to do that please?

[section=Rules discussed] • Using an new game autosave instead of going through character creation. No opposition, done. • Load removals. Needs an autosplit. May impact routes as it allows to go through more loadings. • Explicit console interdiction. Not strickly necessary, not a bad thing either. Done. • Explicit where the end split is. Done

[section=Original post] Here are my thoughts about rules, right now I'm the only one around I don't want to start modifying stuff only to dissapear in a few weeks so I'll leave them here for now:

• The rules could allow to load a new game autosave instead of making a new character each time. That would allow for time gain outside of runs and you still get a loading and the story boxes at the start, looks just the same. Maybe it should also be timed to see if it's the same.

• The loading times should probably be removed. I didn't check if they vary between runners but they do vary in betweens runs. I sometimes randomly get a 3 seconds loss on the first loading alone. It would require either retiming or developping an autosplitter. I could do the latter but right now I don't feel like investing time in it.

• Maybe the rules should specify something like "using the console isn't allowed" even if it's implicit, might as well explicit it. The button is right next to 1 which is usefull for dialogues, so I don't think accidental presses should be disqualifying, only actualy typing a command.

I'm running on a 1001% save and for no apparent reason I'm not getting quite the same seed as the other runners. Most of it is the same, you get the blank card, epic foetus, chaos card, a sacrifice room and you still can finish it pretty quick. But the layout of the floor and the rooms are not the same and I'm missing the full health pills which are a big time saver.

Now I'm perfectly fine having my time alongside the others even if I can't go quite as fast. I'm just curious to know if it's just me or if the map generation have been updated or something. The seed is NYKE QA9G, you can check my time and the 1st one for comparaison if you'd like to.