I want to ask what is required for a series to justify a series board before I request one.

For example: https://www.speedrun.com/Ether_One https://www.speedrun.com/The_Occupation

The two games are canonically connected, but from a story perspective, you wouldn't really be able to tell that much, would this be a problem?

Furthermore I would also like to ask whether or not series names can be changed if need be, as there's not technically an official name for this series, and I wouldn't want to lock in an incorrect name if I'd be unable to change it later if and when an official name gets confirmed.

I know that last questions a little concerning, but I haven't quite seen anything akin to this before, so... would it be okay?

I was thinking of this as a subcategory after seeing how big out of bounds is for running this game, what if we had an "In Bounds" category? Just to give those who don't want to learn Out of Bounds a category to run?

Context- Game: https://www.speedrun.com/Ether_One User: https://www.speedrun.com/user/mauvaisvitrier Forum post: https://www.speedrun.com/Ether_One/thread/wdlcf

Mauvais came onto the site, did a run and tried help expanding Ether One routing and strats, but after trying to edit a post he made in the forums, he found he was just out of the blue banned and reached me on Twitter wondering what's up, theorizing spam protection.

I'm kinda wondering what's up too, and, if possible, to see if he can get his account back.

I was thinking running this game, "All 1st place" seems too inconsistent for me, but playing Any% isn't something that really appeals to me, as surrendering takes away the main thing that I enjoy about this game

So, I wanna ask the mods and, to an extent, the community, if they would be alright with an "Any% No Surrender" category? Like, you'd still be able to throw games if you think it would be faster, but other games would still have you play and not have to worry about getting first, which I think would be a happy medium for new runners like myself.

Maybe there's something that prevents you from wanting to do it, and as I said, I am an outsider, so I have no room to tell you how to run the boards, but this is something I think would be nice. ^^;

Something to consider, at least.

I should mention, since not all the games categories are fleshed out, (especially Shadow Glider), feel free to experiment with finishing games, playing extra levels, etc. to help flesh the boards out.

The games I especially wanna flesh out better are: Ballcat's Homerun (Beat the Game) Dr. Nestor's Ark (Is there a better alternative to Any%?) Woman Runner (Beat the Game) and Shadow Glider (...Just... Anything really)

But I'm open to suggestions if you got any.

I'm not here to complain, I understand, 2 runners is fairly small and I get that, I was mostly seeing if I could. XD

However, the mention of a category extensions merge has me interested, I kinda want to ask what the idea for this is and if there's any chance we'll see this concept worked out soon? ^^

I recently learned and ran a few games that don't have leader boards and I would like to ask if there any limit on how many games a single person can request?

Have you ever used Livesplit for stupid boredom purposes? Because I just spent just under three minutes killing my control button to see how quickly I could manually split 100 times.

If you have, what's some of your purposes? I feel like this could be an entertaining topic.

Title says it all, I'm aware I probably can't request Extensions for a game only I run, so that's not my intent this time. ^-^;

But I was just wondering how you do it as there's nothing I can find on the site that explains how they're made. (Though, I may be missing something.)

https://www.speedrun.com/miitopia/run/zq3e7l5y

This guy apparently beat the world record by over an hour, but won't show the proof. I know the game is small, but like...

is this okay? ...is this mod abuse?

What does IGC mean? I don't understand the difference between No SBA and IGC, I can't find the answer anywhere online, so I figure I'd just ask the forums.

So I saw these boards: https://www.speedrun.com/1080snowboarding/Crystal_Lake

And wondered how they got the "Character" and "Board" information and how I would be able to add extra information for the boards I run.

Like for the Rise of Mythos boards: https://www.speedrun.com/riseofmythos

1. Can you have more 1 Level Leaderboard?

Could I put "Challenge Hall" stuff under something like what I have for the single map regions? Because there's more than one thing you could potentially run in the game, and it wouldn't make any sense mixing single map regions in with Challenge Hall stuff, especially since on their own they'd have different IL variables.

2. Variables of Variables?

Like, if I one day needed to, would I be able to make the "Elyria (NG+)" variable contain "VIP" and "No VIP" sub-variables? Or would those just have to go into their own variables altogether?

Just figured I'd ask as these questions randomly came across my brain. It'd be nice to do these things to get them out of the way early in case of emergency, but... I wanted to ask if it was even possible first.

So I recently had a game I wanted to run verified and I have the boards... sorta how I wanted them to start as? But I have a question regarding aspects in creation, I understand that Categories are the main boxes on the top, they're the main runs of the game, and I understand the variables and subcategories help with some of the organization.

But I'm trying to wrap my head around "Individual Levels" and "Individual Level Categories", they sound like they'd work wonders in the game I requested, but playing around with them, they don't show up and I don't understand the purpose, so I'm asking what they're for and how they're used, because I don't get it.