Ever since the discovery of the mission skipping in mech 2, I was thinking about having separate categories. One for completing every mission and another for just utilizing starmate skipping.

btw, when I bring this up, I'm referring the full campaign

I think the category should exist, only if someone runs it.

How far along is the strategy? Last I checked, the mission skips in Jade Falcon and Wolf campaigns are :

1. Starmate skip, which can only skip missions where you have a starmate. This should be a new category if someone runs it.
2. Manually corrupting save files, which shouldn't be a category. It should be against the game rules, as it modifies files before the game launches.

Starmate Skips which can be done by anyone should be allowed. Changing files around should not though.

What about the cd bug in 1.0?

More specifically, the 1.0 release crashes the sim if the disc stops spinning before starting a mission, because it cant load the audio track. This kicks ypu back to the shell with the previous mission results, allowing you to skip all missions except the trials