A load (I believe it came from the -ns discussion) is pretty broad: It's loading the game, entering a new map, clicking ingame items on the map (e.g arreat summit ancients). Unless you want to define when the timer should stop and start. I am not quite 100% clear of what you want defined.

About the seeded runs: I really like the idea of having the jail setup right off the bat, it would make it more interesting to watch as well, since right now I mostly watch sorc speedruns as a lurker, check in every 10 min and wait for the jail to happen before I actually start watching.

Does this mean the seed will persist throughout the entire run? That would take out RNG of maps and monster spawns for the entire run, which I imagine would result eventually in all runners using that one gg seed that somebody once found. Is it possible to a partially seeded run? Where you have the a starter seed for the jail and then switch to random again after act 1 or even jail?

"Still have no answer why pressing at "hardcore" button makes run different with softcore, and why I cannot submit my HC run as SC. It should works at logic and rules, not at yours want or don`t want."

If you go there then logic demands that you can submit a SC run as HC if you didn't die.

Update: We currently have to go through 1.425 runs manually and put them all in place again. This might take a while.

Good luck to you and lav for your exams