High score runs that are not speedruns
6 years ago
England

"I think it says something when one of the devs to CyberScore posts here before one from SR."

They were all at SGDQ, they're probably still winding back from the travel.

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United States

There are future intentions to implement score as a variable type. It is seen as a shortcoming that the site doesn't support the "timer" type flexibility well enough to do this in a sensible manner. The timer code in general needs refactored as it has a lot of limitations. Lighnat0r was working on this some months back, and to my understanding doesn't seem to be interested in continuing development with the site.

There were discussions with Cyberscore on this topic quite a while back at their request. My general opinion on the topic at the time was that I don't think chaining two sites together via API or whatever else is a good idea, and I think a lot of the obvious shortcomings on our end pertaining to score runs are due primarily to a lack of a proper implementation on our side. People can use whatever site they want, or both.

Most of us were indeed at SGDQ. We're still here keeping the site running. Development has been slow and a lot of practical features aren't happening and it annoys me as well.

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Victoria, Australia

Noone should be throwing any shade at the admins of sr.com for this imo. The site is massive and there is so much stuff to keep track of, I don't know how they find the time to develop at all. They have my full support in that regard, especially after being involved with SGDQ this week.

Back on-topic, the proposed link b/w CS and SR.com was intended to be a fairly superficial link basically allowing CS to manage high-scores for a game and SR to manage speedruns, that way both sites share each other's traffic. We were going to propose that a variety of different levels of integration were options including full API linkage (as kirkq mentioned above) all the way down to literally just having a link to the relevant game on the other site on each side, which is extremely non-intrusive and easy, however Pac shut it down fairly early into the discussion and I elected to drop it there.

We also intended to offer to assist with the development and sharing of a fair few of our features including our fully-functional mail system and our score/IL system too. Like I said before. We are all users of SR.com too, and we want to help in a mutually beneficial manner. The offer on our behalf remains.

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Baltimore, MD, USA

I believe it makes more sense for speedrun.com to be a website for speedrunning, and cyberscore to be a website for video game scores. Cyberscore is designed for scores, and speedrun.com is designed for speedruns

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I wonder if this is something the site staff would be willing to put to a vote, at least internally. I'd love to read all of their perspectives, in detail, on the viability of Speedrun.com having leaderboards that are not merely misc. categories but main categories based solely on score and not for completions of games.

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North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Well, a lot people don't even know Cyberscore so I'm not sure if we should delete the score leaderboards since there are a lot of runs being submited to these leaderboards.

http://www.speedrun.com/flappybird

Massachusetts, USA

please god give me somewhere else to submit besides twin galaxies

xelnia and Omar like this
Belgium

RE: SpiderSponge67 there are 30 submission for survive% for that game on speedrun.com vs 58 submissions on Cyberscore.

Valhalla

idk why people want src to be some bloated shit that caters high scores as well as speedruns. when is src replacing twitter? when is src replacing youtube? cmon admins step up

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