United StatesIts is currently dependent upon the system the game is being run on. SGB time ends at final input after Isis convo. GBA time ends at Arsenal.
Something worth noting, the password commonly found for this category is only for the Rookie difficulty. In fact I do not believe there exists any online resource for a password that unlocks the mystery racer on Veteran and Warrior. The only way to obtain one would be for someone to hack the games code and produce a specialty password.
If anyone is up to the task of actually doing that, I would use it to run the mystery racer Veteran and Warrior categories.
Rules updated as to clear up any confusion as to when time starts and ends.
"Do we know that those are the actual max population possible for those categories? specially with Zone Stacking, which involves complex positioning. Wouldn't be easier for those categories to check by a multiple of 100k? like 1100k."
The highest I have seen is 1,190,000, with zone stacking, and since it was not a timed run, it has no place here. The highest I have seen without zone stacking is 956k, but this was in the year 5000 or later, so frame skip was used and it took an immense and undocumented amount of time to get there I am sure. Until anyone actually records and submits a run for those categories, I doubt they will be run by anyone else except maybe myself and a select few others. As for determining the highest number of population, that can only be done once a run is submitted and a mark is reached. As of now, the 812k is the highest I have seen for the standard, full game category, but I am certain it could go higher and speed strats could cut time below 3 hours.
Freeland and Glitchless categories have been added under the Level Leaderboard tab on the left, below the full game. This has been a unique game to moderate for speedruns, unlike the other games I have had to attend to. As such, I have also amended the rules for each category to make things more clear for our runners.
Enjoy, should get a few new racers with this one, and it should also cut down on time in Veteran and Warrior and makes things much faster.
The mystery racer which can only be accessed by password will now be available as a separate category for speedruns, enjoy.
We need individual console categories, because the newer releases have better gear than the older ones. I am starting to speedrun the game on PS3 now.. I feel we should have the categories separated into release versions. I will be speedrunning Act 1-5 rift, keywarden and bounty. Would be nice to have a category to contribute these future runs for. Perhaps even a co-op category, or a category for non modded gear as the cheaters are everywhere now.
This is my PB for A1 Rift. Lets make this happen? I have a community of non modded PS3 runners who are also interested in this.
Olaf is seen as "in bounds" for the categories currently run. I was not aware there were any other cheats for the game aside from the password enabling the mystery racer with the +1 to all stats. What cheats do you refer to?
Runners or forum goers will decide, I vote to keep the category as it can help newbies to speedrunning the game practice.
Can someone please address this issue? I have mod experience here and will add the new categories right away if I can be added. It appears the moderators there never check the forum...
Done, but really, we need some of you to begin running this game :D
Money must be spent very wisely and taxes might even have to go up a tad bit to keep the overall time down. I might try a few practice runs at it and see how long it takes. There are a few things I have been wanting to test and this category should be perfect for doing so.
I have been granted moderator powers for this game. Thus, I have added a bunch of new categories that people are currently running, and I wish to explain them all here. First of all, running this game is very different than running most any other game. Vastly different strategies are used for the categories. 100-500K, and possibly 600K can be achieved relatively quickly with the speedbuilding method that Mr.K and Karmamachine use in their runs. However, 700K and up require strategy which takes a much longer amount of time to build, and most certainly has to utilize the debug code.
100K-Maximum Population: All of these categories have specific rule sets and must be single segment runs.
500K/600K Glitchless: This will be the goal for a glitchless game, meaning no type of cheats or glitches are allowed, and it must be a single segment run. This will be a lengthy run should anyone attempt to tackle it as it will be a long time before enough money is made to reach 500K. As an added challenge, I have also added 600K, as it is possible to do, but will require optimized strategies and luck.
Maximum Population Frame Skip: The only rule for this category is no zone stacking. It does not have to be a single segment run either, as the current video cannot verify it was a single segment run. While the run has not been submitted, I have found a video which shows a total of 956,160 population, and clearly used the frame skip as the year is 2108 in game. There is no evidence of zone stacking. The video is linked here:
Maximum Population Zone Stacking: There are no rules for this category, anything goes. The highest total I could find in a video, that utilizes zone stacking is 1,102,240, and that video is linked here:
