Hello everyone !

I am opening this topic following the huge amount of runs we have received recently to talk about several subjects.

First of all, I would like to welcome and thank everyone who has been posting runs. I hope it's only the beginning and that you will all continue having fun!

I would also like to introduce our new moderator : Nore139. I was thinking about adding a new moderator and Nore reached out to me before I even asked anyone so huge thanks to them ! If any of you is having trouble with english you can ask Nore for any question or suggestion you have in Japanese if that is easier for you.

Alright now to the main topic. As you all have seen, the mini games on setting is causing quite the trouble as getting a mini game can make you lose an insane amount of time. At first I thought it wouldn't be an issue because it would force people to try to keep everyone alive as much as possible but in runs with a lower amount of human players, it is way too slow and unreliable to help bots go without issues. Some people may like that parameter since the game is made to be silly and fun but others will want to remove as much RNG as possible from the run. There are also some skips involving dying on purpose so even if you only die on those skips you still run the risk of getting mini games.

With all of that said we want to implement new categories into the game. That said, there are plenty of ways we could do this and we would like to make it the best we could. We have to take different factors into a count :

1 : If we make a new category, do we keep the current category up or do we delete it ? And if we keep it, do we make the new "any% no mini games" category as the main one or should we still have the "any% regular options" for the front page ?

2 : What about turbo mode ? Making categories both with and without turbo mode for the minigames on and off categories will let us with 4 different categories in hands, all of which can be played with up to 4 players, and that is without counting the half marathon, story mode, and single level categories. The leaderboard would become quite a mess in that case. There are once again several possibilities for this, the first one being to chose if we do use turbo mode or not in runs and stick with that decision. The second one is to chose some game modes in which it is interesting to keep both turbo mode on and off parameters possible and try to make it all look good and easy to find. We could also decide to give the option for every categories if you think that is better. In that case I will of course try to make it as clean as possible.

3 : What about the individual levels and other sub categories ? I personally thought about switching individual level runs to "no mini games, turbo mode on" only but that would mean erasing all the runs we have now. Of course it probably isn't that bad since there are not many IV runs at the moment but still I would like to know what everyone thinks before taking a decision about all of that.

And I think that is it for now. I will update the topic if I think of anything else or if I have different suggestions. Feel free to join the discord if you want to discuss this in more details, or simply write your thoughts in here so it is accessible more easily for everyone.

Thank you for reading and have a great day everyone !