I've thought about coming back to speedruns (I say that a lot it seems xD) but find the new layout fairly difficult to navigate. The rulesets quite frankly are very convoluted in the way they're set. Having multiple categories for any%, no major glitches, no transfers, no major glitches and no transfers, easy mode, and easy no major glitches just seems like a lot that could be organized better. Especially considering you also have the levels system where each map has its own 3 categories, navigation is just rather rough.

Not only that, but there doesn't seem to be any rules anywhere, especially considering your default any% run is default settings, which quite frankly nobody is masochistic enough to try and even prior to this rework the "easy mode" was the one that everybody did because it makes the game beatable in a reasonable time. On top of this, the most recent speedrun was done by a moderator who literally crashed their game repeatedly in order to duplicate dinos to fight the boss with.

With the way that it's set up currently and the usage of breaking the game as a whole in order to dupe, I can see the speedruning community here dying if it hasn't already. I understand "breaking the game" in order to do what you want is a normal thing in speedruns, but crashing the game imo is taking it too far because that's almost reliant on your computer's hardware, which I don't think is ok. As somebody who wants to get back into speedrunning, I see the game on here and the "meta" and the lack of information and it turns me away from wanting to run this game. I hate to say it but I don't think anybody wants to run a game that's being run like this. I'm fairly disappointed to see what's happened to this game.

Take away from this what you will, but I'd like to have a conversation about fixing this game's community because I hate to see this.

(This is CrowGuy12 btw, I renamed myself here on this site. I had the second ever WR for any%)

If someone were to... post a QotB run, would the category be restored?

The rules state I can spawn in a cryopod for every creature on the island (a total of 88) as well as a vault to store them in. Am I able to use these cryopods throughout as tools rather than just for storing the dinos I need for the list? Like if I want to transport a land mount to the carnivore island, may I use a cryopod to transport said dino after swimming on an ichthy? The rules don't state any restrictions with these spawned cryopods.

Well first and foremost, ovis is mispelled. But one creature who was not included on the list is megalosaurus. Is that intentional?

Like, I understand that the rates were turned up since the thing was made, but the run itself is "default" rates so it should be just default rates, not everything 0.5. And this is especially clear when you consider that nobody has even posted a default run just yet. Not only would it encourage people to try default stats, but it wouldn't screw anyone over because nobody has yet completed a run like that. All I'm saying is that calling it a "default" run and then editing xp, tame, and harvest just doesn't feel like a default whether or not the stats themselves changed

So I requested a game be added to speedrun.com so I can do some runs of the game. It's a game that was released a few weeks ago and I requested the 15th of last month, and I haven't heard back from anyone for almost 3 weeks when the expected wait period was 1-2 weeks. Is there any way to know for sure if my request has been read and either confirmed or denied? I've checked my notifications and emails daily since I requested the game and nothing. Let me know, thanks!

I've been kinda inactive when it comes to ARK but I heard that they're increasing the harvest, taming, and xp rates by 2x. This is honestly a great change but I was wondering if the rates for the speedrun should be turned down accordingly. The only one that'd need turning down would probably be harvest due to the rest being 1,000,000,000 but that's down to preference by the mods ig. But yeah, I've wanted to do another run for a bit but this has me wondering about everything, thanks!

So I was given moderator privileges on the ARK: Survival Evolved speedrun so that I could add the DLC's as their own categories. After that, the original super moderator either decided to up and leave or was kicked due to inactivity. So I'm now super mod on a game that I only wanted to be a temporary mod for and I have no one to give this title to so I'm kinda stuck now. There's currently one active runner and I'm an off and on again runner. If there's any way to get rid of this moderator title please do let me know, my life is too busy to have to also be a mod of a game and sustain it. Thanks