GermanyI see it the same way as Ewil
Apart from his thoughts its also extremly easy to cheat (not that I want to assume that ppl do that ;)) if ppl are allowed to take "breaks" in between. And by cheating here I mean things like map seeds for all difficulties, drops from early act bosses etc. I mean nobody stops you from taking 5-10 min breaks in your speedruns... There are a number of games that have 5+ days as wr's - nobody does those in one sitting... the point of RTA is that the timer is never paused.
And I really dont see that as a possible "new category" either
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zYpJke_SHMzvzbtFEBcK7lZ2svmgdI84NsOhtHkamCU/edit#gid=0 in this spreadsheet you will at least find the skillbuilds for almost every char.
as for quests: in norm + nightmare you get all skill / stat quests (-radament cuz out of the way)
as for gear: highly depends on char - i will try to add that to my speedrun guide soonish
I would honestly start with doing runs and try to beat your own time again and again. Dont do resets untill you reach the ~ 2hour mark on the 3 fast chars (sorc / druid / assa)
@Ewil doing a segmented run is a really long process that can burn you out so fast. Believe me the hell any% segmented run almost killed me. ;)
to 1) you wont convince anyone to check each and every softcore run towards deaths. noone has that much time. ;) Also Caracarn has a fair point in difference of playstile (allthough i dont think thats a huge thing) The real big difference is the death strats at the Baalwaves to pull them out (saves a lot of time depending on the char)
to 2) not that I know of. That would be an entirely different categorie that is also really hard to check. (again noone will have the time to check full 1.5-4hour runs for save & quits.
@CaracarnVi Everyone was asking for a seperate categorie for HC so there is no real reason to mix them together just because they are potentioally better. That is one of the major issues I had to implement the HC categorie seperatly in the first place.
you can simply sort the leaderboard by hc / sc - if you feel it nessessary ;)
RTA = Real Time Attack This means that the runs have to be done in one session without stopping the timer. We use this format because with pausing timers you could potentially change the stats of unidentified items / look at maps / etc.
100% = All Quests + Cow Kings on all difficulties. It doesn't include waypoints (Speeddemosarchive rules) We don't have them on our leaderboards because I was the only one who made an RTA run out of that (6:39h). (If this changes and a lot of people want to do 100% runs that COULD always change)
Segmented runs are mainly found on Speeddemosarchive or youtube. They don't appear here.
It wont be a popular thing i believe. I would only do it as a "fun-race" vs MrLlamaSC, but not just like that. So I don't feel like its worth putting in a new category for this.
