I have been a mod for this category for a long time - and you may or may not know that I was here to originally lay out what you have here now.

2 years ago, we wanted to start creating runs for TTR, and needed to have lots of categories set as we go through with it.

After reading many of the forum posts and hearing out perspectives, I agree that TTR needs an overhaul to standardize its runs.

There are already many factors of RNG that greatly affect how fast a run can go, and adding load times, crashing, and amounts of players runners have in their hands gives many an unfair advantage.

As a proposal, we need to do the following to make these runs fair for everyone.

For Co-Op:

1. Ban having more than 3 additional teammates for the speedrun. This means you CANNOT allow anyone aside from your teammates to help you during the runs. 1a. Because of this, it needs to be considered whether or not going forward runs can or should be allowed to be livestreamed, as "stream snipers" can always come in and help the runner, whether or not they are asking for extra help

2. Compare runs by GAME TIME over REALTIME. --- Because of the various factors based on people's internet, hardware, etc. The only way to make runs more fair is to start excluding times within the runs where the game is either loading or crashed. Runners should have the right to pause their timer during these times. For now, you can manually do this until a load remover has been programmed. If you have experience with this, you may DM me on discord at foxotic#0482 if you would like to contribute to this.

I think these 2 changes can make the runs significantly more fair, and gives everyone a chance to complete the game based off of teamwork and SKILL over it being a popularity contest.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Do you approve? Disapprove?

I'm going to wait until Friday, Jan 25 to make action happen on my own, as I have not been active in the community for some time, but I do have a passion for runs overall, and want to see some care taken into somewhere I can help.

If any mods or active runners in particular want to discuss changes with me, please don't hesitate to DM me.