I really love Paradox's grand strategy games. I've played since the launch of Europa Universalis 4 and have several thousands of hours of playtime on them. I generally don't watch videos/streams of the games as they are very long and not that fun to watch, but I make an exception for speedruns.

But if you look at the games on speedrun.com you would think these games are barely ever run, despite it actually being very popular. Why? Because speedrun.com's rules, catagories and time format doesn't fit these games at all. Firstly, each game has tons of nonsense catagories that no one wants to run, take a look at Europa Universalis 4 as a good example of this. The categories should be divided into each patch (like Minecraft), not all these (frankly) dumb categories that no one cares about.

Secondly, speedrun.com needs to drop "time" for these games. You compete by what the in-game year is, not real time. Right now there is just a very crude work-around where you convert the in-game to a hh-mm-ss format which is confusing and makes little sense. Just drop the time entirely and only use year.

These improvements would really help make speedrunning of these games viable to do on speedrun.com instead of the current format of using screenshots, youtube videos, or streams. Its very disorganized so being able to have it on speedrun.com instead would help a ton.

I don't know if this is the right sub forum or such. I just really hope the mods see this and decide to make the changes.