I know this game is already 15 years old and that most people have forgotten about it, but while learning the game I came across a question I'd really like to get an answer to.

In No Major Glitches category, going out of bounds is banned. However, because game is full of weird mechanics, it's possible to skip certain sections without actually breaking that rule.

I discovered something that, surprisingly, no one seems to have talked about. You can trigger many NPC actions, including opening about half of doors in game yourself. In some cases, this actually lets you skip entire sections, including the stealth segment shown in this video.

Should rules for this category be expanded to forbid triggering NPC actions, such as opening doors yourself, or should things stay as they are? Technically, this skip doesn't violate current rules, so I could use it in my run.

In my opinion, setting Zoom level offset breaks the game a lot and makes speedrun very simple.

I suggest to create a separate category with this setting along with custom difficulty and mutators, and ban Zoom level offset on the main category. Or just ban this setting if you want.

(I'm writing because worried that my WR will be broken with this rubbish).