generally to add a new category you'd need to show proof of interest in adding said category, i.e. do it yourself first

Hi, has this rule changed? I just got a notification that my run from multiple years ago was rejected for only having one POV.

Hi, not sure if the mods are open to new categories since the game is so new, but I'd like to propose a category I tentatively named Color Rush - all three sidequest rushes back to back. I'd like to see more categories that aren't just in-game leaderboard mirrors, so I came up with this. Here are two proof of concept videos I recorded for the Hell and Heaven rushes to demonstrate at least my interest in doing them:


This is obviously just a proof of concept, so the rules and such can be tweaked (maybe add Mikey's rush too?).
I've got the autosplitter running, but it didn't quite like what I was doing, so I just manually added up the times myself in post.

think you're looking for https://www.speedrun.com/bl1e

I'd recommend joining the discord - we can help you out much easier there.

"Apparently they were banned, but this was before my time on this site so I have no idea what went on or why that happened." @MrMonshMrMonsh he was banned because he threatened violence against a former admin of the website, and has proceeded to (as seen in the above post) continue to do that kind of thing and severely minimize his involvement in order to make himself look better.

Would you be willing to disable comments for this game? Since I only run the co-op categories, the privacy setting that disables comments on my runs doesn't work for co-op runs, and manually turning off comments on every run is going to get annoying.

allowing comments should be opt-in not opt-out, otherwise all it does is incentivize spambots and bad actors to find inactive people on the boards to spam

Comments on runs are one of the worst ideas that could have possibly been implemented. Please either remove them or, at minimum, allow moderators to turn off comments per game.

Using keys is against the rules because a ) you can just edit your profile to give yourself infinite keys anyway and b ) all the time you spent farming would count for an any% run if you used a key in the run. Much easier to just not use the keys and have a rule forbidding it.

there's a guide that will help you learn the ATP run https://www.speedrun.com/ahit/guide/tryor

Console runs are allowed, and to time it you just manually time out loading screens.

Thanks! Will do!

Can you set the dropdown for Run Obsoletion in the category list for New Game that says "Match all, any order"? Otherwise, because of how sr.c sometimes shuffles names around, you run into things like how the Trio category is currently; the same group running, but two different runs shown.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not good enough to do any run except maybe Brutus deathless, which makes the deathless requirement an extreme turn-off for me wanting to run the game, plus the fact that it's only a "possibility" that the run would be added to the boards.

I like playing the game and I want to speedrun it, but I'm not going to be good enough for multiple months to do what would be considered currently a valid run (and that's IF I spent all my free time practicing), and that sucks.

I get that the mods support deathless, but at some point it's about accessibility to the category and game. Someone new who picks up PoE, plays the game, wants to learn how to speedrun it, isn't necessarily going to be good enough to get through the whole game deathless. That stops progress towards learning a run almost instantly. If I feel like I can't actually even complete a category (no matter how safe I play), I'm not going to want to learn it. Most runs don't have this type of barrier; you can struggle through the run as much as you want, but at a base level you can start and finish the game and it will count for a run. I'm aware that this will most likely not change any minds on the mod team, but please realize that if you want people to interact within speedrun.com and do races, you should consider opening up the deathless rule to allow, at bare minimum, for non-intentional/non-skip/etc deaths. I've been wanting to get back to PoE running ever since my wrist has healed, but with these new rules I see no point in actually trying since I won't be good enough for multiple months to be able to complete a valid run.

(A similar game, Diablo 3, has no death restrictions that I can see.)

A few possible ideas are to either sort by deaths (create a variable yes/no for deaths), ban the softcore death skips with a rule, or just allow them. After all, this is speedrunning, and the point is to go faster, no?

What was the rationale behind requiring deathless? That change is super punishing to people like me, who aren't that good at the game but still want to do runs. Wouldn't dying just be slower?

Sure. Zer0 is more forgiving than Gaige re: lategame deaths, and you can adapt the route to be as easy as you want it to be.

would probably go under Any Mods category