Kansas, USAI like the idea of NMG, but I also think that people are correct in saying all of the strats create different enough game play that they should be acknowledged somehow. Unfortunately we need legacy routes and bans (in fetch a fruit, of all things) because the OG glitch has been and will likely always be the fastest, so a blanket any% is kind of silly. I know I'm not too involved with this game anymore, but I think that the new start is cool and deserves its time to shine. Maybe we should do it like Max Speed, Snaking, and Space Flying in F-Zero GX, where the category is the same but has a filter on how it was performed. i.e. keep the difficulty categories but add filters of strats used, minus the tab glitch, and you can only pick one. That's the way F-Zero does it, a progressive series of bans. Max speed you have to use max speed settings where snaking is impossible, snaking has space flying banned, and space flying is unrestricted. That way, the gameplay can stay diverse and interesting, and like 120 people's runs don't fall onto a board no one looks at lmao
just my 2 cents
Look here to see how optimal you are https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EIokTn63F80CKKl5oZrhesJRVH0iZDHcXw5ejWTRaK0/edit?usp=sharing
if the flash file version doesn't work, try clicking on the "secure" or the "i" to the left of the url of either version of the game in chrome, and go to site settings. make sure that flash is set to allow and not the default setting. if that doesn't work on either version of the game try going into advanced Chrome settings and turning off hardware acceleration. if THAT doesn't work try other browsers and try force enabling flash and disabling hardware acceleration etc
My thought was that the focus goes away from drawing optimal vine paths since you skip it now, it becomes less about speed and accuracy and only about speed, which is a gameplay change in my opinion. Also I think that the only issue is that no vine skip is the default category, but once more vine skip runs are made, it can become the default or it can be mixed.
Post feedback for separation into subcategories, I think it's the best solution to keeping old gameplay styles and also allowing for the new trick outside of the glitch category.
Because of the new glitch I've discovered, where the crayon hit box is still active if you don't use it initially which saves time if you make a mistake, I have changed text to say that only the tab glitch (the glitch used in "glitch") is banned in the other categories. However, if this causes severe sequence breaks or skips (I have done some in messing around) that glitch may be banned as well. The only consistent and useful way to use the new glitch as far as I know is to save time if you make a mistake, and that is the intention in allowing it.
yeah i'd be interested to see someone get this game to work somehow
