If it is rude to be blunt and honest then that's what I am. No. Saying that someone is unable to read after he took his time to read and give an opinion is “rude” to say it lightly.

An uninformed opinion is not as good as an expert or informed one. And I guess you think yours is the expert one? Because you know that my experience in similar situations is null, don’t you?

Don't pretend that you represent some untapped resource of 10s or 100s of potential runners. I was A potential runner. And as I there could be more that don’t waste their time giving feedback. But nevermind... your opinion is the only one which matters because you’re the one who was there 2 years ago, and the newcomers aren’t here yet...

Man.. you are arrogant and disrespectful. I’m done with you. Because you can’t have a reasonable argue with an stupid guy. And besides speaking like an stupid guy, you act like a 12yo child that has classroom delegate rights. If it is rude to be blunt and honest then think again of your behavior because this is what you are. I won't mince words or waste time. If you were offended then that is unfortunate.

There’s no need to be so rude. I’m just giving my opinion, as a potential runner, on the actual state of the scene. Knowing how you got there gives some context but nothing else, it doesn’t changes the actual rules for which the opinion is.

If you want a possible solution, the only thing I can think of is asking the developers for a dedicated button to start a new world from scratch with all settings to default and non configurable editing in-game files. But even then, it wouldn’t ensure the runs are fair because you can always edit the video cutting in the loading screen.

You can never be 100% certain that no cheats are being done. My personal opinion is that is better to trust in players good will. If someone’s runs are consistently suspicious or is caught cheating ban him forever. If the safety measures hurt fair players as much as cheaters, they should be weaker. But that’s just that, a personal opinion, as good as any other.

I’ve just seen an ancient guardian run on youtube, and it was so interesting that I thought about trying it myself. Then I came here to find an almost completely empty leaderboard. I was looking for a discord server when I found this thread. Now I understand why the leaderboard is empty. And I’m no longer considering running the game. The reasons:

1. No seedless runs. That takes away all the “adapt to the RNG” out of the equation, and turns the runs into “get lucky finding a better seed”. That’s not skillful. Sure you still need some skill, but that’s secondary. It’s even a problem because it forces to verify the seed and it might be impossible to do if there’s a new patch as MisutoM says.

2. Deleted runs . I’m on the same page as Max_overpower. That makes for a huge lack of incentive to run at all. I’d rather share leaderboard with an old run with a filter to take it away than play at all if my efforts would completely disappear in a couple months. The runs are still in youtube? Ok, but where? The point on keeping an archive here is making them easy to find.

3. Most runners just upload to youtube and don’t submit here. I can see why with these rules. There are just too many things to do. Scrolling through presets after each reset is not trivial, nor fun to do/watch.

I understand that all of those rules (seed sharing and preset showing) are there for a reason, but it’s still a bummer that takes the fun away. I’m sorry for the speedrunner scene of this game, because it had potential.