Hello everyone, I hope you're enjoying your stay on the ODS board!

I shared a forum post a few days ago about a rule change to Toontown Central Toontasks Solo, allowing the use of a secondary toon to assist with the "Make a Friend" Toontask, but for nothing else.

I also was running into issues with modifying the categories on the board itself, but this has been resolved, and this rule is officially in the rules for the category to remove confusion.

I took this chance to also clean up how the rules are displayed to board viewers, so hopefully everything looks a little bit cleaner. I also clarified a bit of how the rules are communicated, although I may be making more changes over the following week or so, so check right below this paragraph for an edit in case there is anything major.

Now, for the biggest change that was made, the separation of Donald's Dreamland Toontasks into three parts!

Now, I doubt anyone will be doing runs of DDL for a while, but I figured I'd future proof it, so let me explain what the three parts of Dreamland are, and the reasoning for separating it into multiple parts.

----What are the three parts of Donald's Dreamland?----

Donald's Dreamland is a long playground, and there are a lot of different tasks. Over the course of the playground, you get 39 extra laff points, three gag pouch upgrades, three jellybean jar upgrades, teleport access, and an entire cog disguise (or three, depending on how you view it)! This is a lot of progression, and even in the sense of a speedrun, will be extremely long.

However, whether intentional or not, the original task designers come to the rescue here! They separated Donald's Dreamland's tasks into four (we'll get to the difference between part 3 and four) different sections, where you have to complete all the tasks from one part before you can get any from the next part. This is super nice for speedrunning, as we can just use these sections as different categories.

So, let me clarify & specify what each part involves.

Note: If you'd like more information on these tasks, I used the Toontown Wiki & the Toontown Rewritten Wiki as sources for my research. If you have personally gone through these tasks on ODS, and have the information documented, please contact me if some of this is wrong for ODS, and I will correct it accordingly.

Toontown Wiki: https://toontown.fandom.com/wiki/ToonTask_Guide/Donald's_Dreamland

Toontown Rewritten Wiki: https://toontownrewritten.fandom.com/wiki/Donald's_Dreamland_ToonTasks

Donald's Dreamland Part 1 -Carry 60 Gags -Carry 150 Jellybeans -Teleport Access to Donald's Dreamland -+1 Laff Point -+2 Laff Points -+3 Laff Points -+4 Laff Points -Cashbot Upper Left Leg -Cashbot Lower Left Leg -Cashbot Left Foot

Part 1 is pretty simple, just consisting of 10 tasks, all of which are specific visit tasks

Donald's Dreamland Part 2 -Carry 70 Gags -Carry 200 Jellybeans -+1 Laff Point -+2 Laff Points -+3 Laff Points -+4 Laff Points -Cashbot Upper Right Leg -Cashbot Lower Right Leg -Cashbot Right Foot -Cashbot Pelvis -Cashbot Upper Torso -Cashbot Upper Left Arm -Cashbot Lower Left Arm -Cashbot Upper Right Arm -Cashbot Lower Right Arm

Part 2 finishes off the Cashbot suit, but has substantially more tasks than Part 1. All of the tasks that are in Italics (slanted, like this) are random tasks, meaning it won't involve visiting someone, and may just be a "Defeat 200 Cogs" or something of that type.

Donald's Dreamland Part 3 Part 3 is where things get a bit more confusing. The Toontown Wiki says that there are only 3 Parts, while the TTR Wiki says there are 4 Parts. I believe there are functionally 4 Parts, but "Part 3" (if classifying it as 4 parts) only consists of 4 tasks, so for all functional purposes for speedrunning, all of "Part 3 and 4" will be called Part 3. The tasks in Part 3 are:

-Carry 80 Gags -Carry 250 Jellybeans -+1 Laff Point -+1 Laff Point -+2 Laff Points -+2 Laff Points -+3 Laff Points -+3 Laff Points -+3 Laff Points -+4 Laff Points

Please note that all of these tasks are random tasks.

That's all for the different parts of Donald's Dreamland's Tasks. Some people consider the Labwbot & Bossbot Suits (and on ODS the Cashbot, Lawbot, and Bossbot Easy Promo Papers) to be part of the Dreamland tasks, but this is not the case. Donald's Dreamland's Tasks end when you've reached 100 Laff (subtracting bonus laff), can carry 80 gags, and can carry 250 jellybeans.

----Why separate Donald's Dreamland speedruns into 3 separate Categories?----

As mentioned before, there are a lot of Donald's Dreamland tasks (35 to be exact), and each of these tasks is long in it's own right. As such, completing a speedrun of all of this would be monumental, especially since the rules do not allow for breaks or pausing of the timer (with the exception of crashes).

Separating it into multiple Parts, each as their own run better allows for runs of Donald's Dreamland to be completed (i.e. look at how Megasnoop did runs of DDL Part & Part 2 on TTR, even though the runs were unofficial due to TTR's board not having a Donald's Dreamland category. Source: & ).

Now, it will still probably be a while before anyone actually completes a run for these categories, but that's okay.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to reach out, and I'd be happy to assist you.

Thanks so much for reading this monster of a forum post, and I hope you have a wonderful time with ODS speedrunning!

--Boog2811

Hello everyone, welcome to the ODS speedrunning board.

I'm Boog2811, the newest mod on the team for this board, and would like to share a rule change being implemented for Toontown Central Toontasks Solo.

ODS (at the time of writing) does not have a super active playerbase, especially of new players coming to the game. As such, completing the "Make a Friend" Toontask in a TTC Solo run can be very frustrating.

As such, the new rule change states that you are allowed to use an alt account (or another player you've communicated with) in order to complete this one task.

You may not make use of this additional toon in any other way, including teleports, help in battles, unites, or anything else, only the Make a Friend Toontask.

You may unfriend this extra toon afterwards, but this is not a requirement, as long as they have no impact on your run besides this one task, the run will still be considered solo.

[At the time of writing, Speedrun.com is giving me trouble, and I am unable to edit the rules on the category itself. As such, for the time being, this forum post has precedence over the category rules. If you have any questions about the rules, feel free to reach out to me over Discord (boog2811) or Twitter (@Boog2811 or @BoogTV), and I will clear up any confusion.]

I hope this change will make your lives speedrunning just a little bit easier, and I hope you enjoy your stay at the ODS Speedrun.com Board!!

--Boog2811

(edited to correct Discord username to fit with Discord's recent username changes)

Sucks to see the bat cave not cooperating with you, would've been a nice wr if not for the cave.

EDIT (November 11th, 2022): I would like to clarify (since I failed to in the title when I originally made this thread) that this was a proposed rule change that I made prior to becoming a mod.

However, I am now a mod, and want to make this change, so please refer to the new forum post for the full rule change regarding this matter.

Please refer to the rules on the category board if you face confusion about the rules, or feel free to reach out to me directly via Discord or Twitter, both linked on my speedrun.com profile.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for checking out ODS speedrunning!!

---------------Original Post---------------- As we all know, "Make a Friend" is one of the early tasks in the TTC taskline. On another server, say TTR, this won't be that challenging, as you can pretty consistently find another player in TTC to friend to complete this task.

However, since ODS is in the state that it is in, where there isn't a super consistent or growing community, it can be challenging to find someone to friend for this task.

With that in mind, this is what I propose for a rule change to the TTC Solo Rules: -You are allowed to have a friend or an alt be waiting in ToonHQ in TTC in the district you are in, in order to complete the "Make a Friend" Toontask. -After friending this other toon, and turning in the task, you must immediately unfriend them and return to fully solo gameplay. -This other toon may not help you in any manner whatsoever, except for being the toon to assist you in completing the "Make a Friend" Toontask.

This change would allow TTC Solo runs to be viable to complete, without having an insane roadblock of, what is essentially complete RNG, only a few minutes into the run.

Thanks for reading, and I hope this makes sense. Let me know if you'd like any further explanation of my proposed rule change.

--Boog2811

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