I am a moderator for Clustertruck and I am wondering what is the opinion of other runners from other communities with IGT for the IGT system we are developing. For context on what I am going to discuss, Clustertruck is a game where you platform on trucks through 90 levels. You also have abilities you can switch out for in the main menu too.

Right now working with some friends we have found a way to remove the load time and transitions in between levels using IGT, but now the question has become "should the autosplitter be paused when switching abilities in the main menu?"

This is extremely important because it completely changes how any% is ran for the game. If switching abilities caused no time loss, you could switch abilities to get large amounts of time save in specific levels. Previously, you would be locked to a single ability since its better in 90% of cases, and switching caused too much time loss.

Are there other games that use IGT that pause for any other reason besides transitions between levels or loading? I will eventually setup a poll for the Clustertruck community since its important to represent the community as a moderator and not my own interests, but I think its important to hear other perspectives on this first.

tl:dr IGT pausing in the main menu for time save benefits?

I said this previously before, but how about instead of the current system of categories where we just add more misc. categories, we organize this categories into sub categories? Like there are a lot of misc. categories for lowgrav when you could just have lowgrav be a category and have truckflip and noability be a subcategory for that. Overall I think subcategories would help the clutter and make adding future categories cleaner.

Talking about future categories, one of the things I am interested in is running the game with supertruck or no utilities (e.g. portable truck). Why? Well Any% is fun and all, but it is really annoying to do portable truck boosts and a category without them would be fun. You could say I could run NoAbility, but then you don't have levitation and you are screwed by the RNG of the levels. I don't want to run the game without levitation. This is not only me, although I don't speak for Snakeathon, I do think he would also run this category (SuperTruck or NoUtility%).

If I am honest I would rather run the NoUtility category instead of supertruck because supertruck is annoying. Although I do like the color change. I will be running NoUtility today so if it does become a category I will submit for it. I'll be sure to get a nice juicy time :)