with recent talks of what should/shouldn't be deleted, this has been the low-hanging fruit as to why other boards should exist.

1. Delete the leaderboard
2. Keep the leaderboard
3. I don't care strongly enough either way

vcs duping has been found by user powdinet on 22nd february (memes)

a ghetto video of the easy setup to dupe is here

it's much easier than LCS's duping, and essentially consistent if you dont fuck up the timing. It's similar to san andreas in that taking the same mission twice and passing will skip the next mission. We're unsure on what can be skipped and what cant be yet apparently

current confirmed working dupes in any%:

taking "unfriendly competition" twice and passing skips High Wire (WR goldsplit is 9:45)

taking "So Long Schlong" twice and passing skips "In the Air Tonight" (WR Goldsplit is 6:04)

taking "nice package" twice skips "Balls" (WR goldsplit is 2:52)

taking "turn on, tune in, bug out" twice skips taking the fall

taking "colonels coke" twice skips kill phil

current known 100% dupes

2x ambulance causes semi-skip (every other level is skipped, ie: 1->3->5->7->9->11) 2x air rescue does the same 2x fire copter does the same I think but it doesn't have a level indicator so it's hard to say vigilante skip that takes like 10 seconds: - crashes on completion

will make some posts tomorrow

iii: http://www.speedrun.com/gtaiii/thread/lw7t8/1#9u3oq

vc: http://www.speedrun.com/gtavc/thread/irwq9

seemingly useless glitches 'megathread' for gta3

VC: http://www.speedrun.com/gtavc/thread/irwq9/1#lqpsr

so I asked if people would be willing to contribute to something like this, so I'm making a placeholder post for it now

I'll submit some stuff tomorrow but I said I'd make the thread today

III: http://www.speedrun.com/gtaiii/thread/lw7t8/1#9u3oq

hey, anyone have any suggestions for categories they'd like to see? I won't put up any categories involving PvP but otherwise I'm open for most things that make sense

1. I have made a category for the Japanese variation of the game, as the mechanics are significantly different (for one, enemies do half damage, as do own grenades). It is a misc category by default as runners have deemed it to be something we shouldn't encourage.

2. we have made significant changes to the timing method of both stories games. The method is a little weird I guess (combining RTA and IGT in some cases if rules are 'broken'), but the purpose is to stop abuse of pausing without adding a punishment for pager skipping on ps2, and to make runs with different setups more comparable

if anyone has any feedback, feel free to post it here

some of my ideas may be a little 'much later down the line'

1. it'd be nice if you could pin 1-2 runs to the top of your profile, similar to pinning/stickying threads on the forums. This'd stop the run you are most proud of being buried under barney's hide and seek 4:27's or whatever

2. the ability to report games would be very handy (for example, nonsensical categories, inactive mods, etc) - this can be done manually now of course, but it'd help move towards more automation, and having this as an actual feature would lead to more reports vs people saying 'screw it, I can't be bothered'

3. adding 'personal runs awaiting verification' with the info on when a run is submitted would be super handy. For example, I've been waiting 9 days for a run to be verified, and it's hit the point where I began doubting myself (until checking with an admin) whether I submitted it at all. I usually hate saying 'it should be easy' with no idea of the backend system, but I imagine it'd only be a case of adding a section to the page using a 'filter runs by logged in profile' rather than 'filter runs by games that the logged in profile is a moderator in'

4. filtering the frontpage would be amazing - a great way of achieving that would be to add a follower system. With this, you could follow series', runners, games, and filter unfollowed runs by position (ie: only show the top5 times in a game I dont follow as news - I'm sure if I get the 70th best time in vice city, the people not following the series, and even a lot who do, will not give a shit).

With this system, you could allow people to keep the default view, but give them an alert when a new time fitting their criteria is up, or allow them to hide other runs entirely, giving more reason to actually look back at the front page throughout the day, rather than casually browsing it when going to the site for another reason as I'm sure most currently do.

A further expansion of this would be to give extra attention to times beaten in games people are most interested in, ie: stickying them to the top of the frontpage feed/making them special there somehow.

Another thing that could be done is making a thread underneath the submitted run for people to post in if the run is a 'big deal' as determined by followership. This would build up the social aspect of the site a little more as people would actually view this section without specifically having to go to the forum, while also not becoming a barren feature since it wouldn't be given to the runs that are near-guaranteed to not get any posts

can we get an IL leaderboard please guys

tested some stuff today, I havent timed any of it

1. dropping down there and jumping across saves spending time doing 2 climbs.
2. jump over boxes and (I think) you'll guarantee the fast climb animation. There are...three? spots you can do this in.

AHITH magic jump. harder with frame limiter on (this video was with it off) but possible. Runnerhaworth says he thinks he found a semi-consistent spot for it so I hope he'll chime in with that

big thread to post in regarding new findings with replay-asset related glitches

GLITCH DEFINITIONS/DEMONSTRATIONS HERE:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gsrvVXlP8riXbDF7PtQD23EZSZOkoFR147AOsD4IqSw/