Hi, noob speedrunner, couple questions!
7 years ago
England

Hi everyone, been lurking the forums while waiting for my speedrunning game to be approved, and now that it is I figured I would introduce myself :)

My names Paul, I'm from the UK and I'm probably too old to be getting into this stuff, but I really enjoy watching speedruns (particularly FFIX). I lack a lot of the skills required to speedrun most games, so I'm just having some fun with games I've loved for years, that don't have an obvious way to speedrun them.

I do have a couple questions if anyone can help. I have the default theme for the game I'm modding at the moment, but see plenty of customisation options. Is there a site where I can experiment/preview what they might look like before changing them on the actual site?

Also wondering how people would recommend I deal with submitted runs that seem dubious? I ask because the game in question has hacked versions online that would probably complete the game very fast. (I don't know for sure, I'm not downloading it to see either, it's probably full of malware). Other than rejecting runs, can I ban people from submitting runs for a category/game?

Anyway I've said a mouthful of an introduction. Back to lurking! Thanks in advance to anyone who can help with my questions!

ding_dong33 likes this
Antarctica

If people continually submit illegal runs, just report them to a site admin and they will take care of them. As a moderator, I dont think you can do anything about banning a user from your game.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
thehempy likes this
England

If it's a game you moderate, you are essentially the authority on what runs end up on the boards. If you have reason to suspect that something is illegitimate, you're within your rights to reject the run and cite cheating as the reason. You can also blacklist the user if you're certain that it was a deliberate attempt to break the rules.

For this reason, it's well worth being an expert on whatever games you moderate. As I'm sure you know, many games have a very wide variety of weird glitches and phenomena, and something odd that you've never seen in the game could be a naturally occurring glitch rather than an alteration to the code.

thehempy likes this

Too old? How so? How old are you? (terrible question)