Some things about the most recent update + Missing countryballs
6 months ago
France
Piano_player25
Any/All, They/Them
6 months ago

Firstly, I've noticed that some countryballs appear to be missing in the list for certain categories. I may have missed some, but for example, Switzerland is not in the list for the 1914 campaign, and the same thing applies for Sweden in the 1922 campaign. Could you please add these ?

Regarding the most recent update, a new historical battle was added (Second Balkan war). It would be nice to see it added to the leaderboards too.

Another thing that was added in update 1.6 was the ability to improve individual countryballs' statistics by spending countrycoins. By spending enough countrycoins, you can change the run quite drastically and be able to get much better times than you would by playing without this feature. For example, my PB in the 1861 campaign as France is 4:41 (with default stats), whereas jazz_93's record is 1:33, over 3 minutes faster ! This is not only due to better execution, but also a different strategy, that would be impossible to use without spending countrycoins. While I think there are already a lot of categories, and I don't think it would be worth adding even more, I suggest having an additionnal variable to know whether or not the runner used countrycoins to upgrade their countryballs. I am saying that because I believe it would be more fair to the people who submitted runs before update 1.6, but also because countrycoins can be a bit tedious to get without spending money into the game (especially since they're already used to unlock countryballs). This is just a proposition though, feel free to reject it if you think it's unnecessary or would cause problems I didn't consider. :)

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Japan

Well, like a sub category for every category for country coins?

France
Piano_player25
Any/All, They/Them
6 months ago

@notsnowhk A sub-category could maybe be the most "fair" option, but I feel like it would create way too many distinct leaderboards (considering a lot of the existing ones already don't have any runs). I was suggesting to make it just an additional variable that would appear next to each run (like the game version in Celeste, for example).

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Japan

Well, then someone would just take that spot, and it would be at the top

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Russia

Sorry for taking so long, I'll look and add, but it won't be soon

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Russia

Regarding coins: I won’t create a subcategory here, there are risks that everything will break and secondly, it will be difficult for me to understand where coins are used and where they are not.

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France
Piano_player25
Any/All, They/Them
3 months ago

@killersi12345 Thank you for replying ! I understand why you can't add coins as a subcategory. I was just proposing that because grinding for coins can be really tedious, but considering how few people actually speedrun this game, I don't think it's that big of a deal.

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Australia

@killersi12345 It wouldn’t be impossible to measure where coins are used, if you check the stats during any battle and compare them to the base stats. Without the usage of coins (I am going to assume) every run requires a battle. I personally think we could remove the usage of coins all together

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Russia

So I'm a subcategory of countrycoin. @jazz_93 can you send me all your verified runs where Countrycoins were used

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Russia

and can you please tell us which countries we can play in the Second Balkan War mode? I finally decide to add

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Russia

@Piano_player25 Thanks again for the information, I fixed the errors with Sweden and Switzerland, added a subcategory of countrycoins (it only remains to solve the problems with mileage where they were used). It remains for me to add 2 Balkan wars

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France
Piano_player25
Any/All, They/Them
2 months ago

@killersi12345 You're welcome ! I believe that you can can also check if countrycoins were used on the character selection screen before the run starts, if one of the stats appears in orange it means it was improved using coins.

Most of my runs were made without using coins, but here are the two ones that weren't : https://www.speedrun.com/countryball_1890/runs/yjwv4rgm and https://www.speedrun.com/countryball_1890/runs/yd2x3pjm (I had two other ones, but I improved my times for them, so I decided to delete them to make things easier for you)

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Russia

The category of the Second Balkan War has been added.

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Australia

@killersi12345 sorry for the late reply I haven’t been active recently. The runs where I used country coins are as follow: Reichtangle Russian Empire Nightmare, Reichtangle Russian empire hard, 1914 France Easy, Reichtangle Reichtangle normal, Reichtangle Reichtangle hard, 1861 France normal, 1861 France Nightmare, 1914 UK easy, Balkans campaign romania nightmare, 1861 France easy, 1914 Germany easy, and 1914 France easy.

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Russia

I fixed everything I saw. There may still be coin runs, but they are not marked, either there are none or there are very few of them. Then maybe I'll check what she's like