This serves as an extension to the rules for Any% and Manipulation categories in the Ancient Cave

Backstory: People have requested it for as long as I can remember. The_Roth set things in motion - Separating the manipulated runs from the Any% runs. He started routing a run and finished his fully manipulated run within a month. This got the discussion started again and we decided the best way to please everyone was to let a voting take place.

The community took a poll, voted and conquered. 28 people voted. 24 people voted for the way things have become just now - Separation of Any% and "True Any%" a.k.a. Manipulation.

First things first I'd like to thank everyone in the community who participated in the vote, we wouldn't have made it without you guys. I want everyone to keep in mind that despite the outcome of the vote, there's no sure-fire way to catch people who want to submit manipulated runs as Any% runs - Cheaters will cheat.

The only thing we consider achievable rules are:

Intentionally RNG Manipulating the Cave is NOT ALLOWED. This includes re-using identical floor 1s in different PBs - The only sort of "proof" we can have access to. Runs that are considered manipulated, or are obviously manipulated in any way (visibly or otherwise) will be placed in the Manipulation category instead.

The only advice I have is to regularly flush your save files to change "RNG". You could do this by saving after a successful run or PB, or just do it like every month or whatever. This'll prevent you from getting used to "your floor 1s" and unintentionally getting used to them. Yes, this means there's a sort of "honour code" to be held.

There's the Lufia II Ancient Cave Discord which is way more active than the general Lufia discord.

Ancient Cave discord can be found HERE:

https://discord.gg/Mp9znRb