United StatesJobee said, "However, I am more than willing to add more categories. Specifically, if three people run the proposed category and send me (or another moderator more on that later) video proof, I will heavily consider adding it to the leaderboard."
Sounds like if it's a competitive category, and you make your case to a mod, it will happen. Good luck!
This is a 13:40 in real time, my bad for submitting the sum of wave times.
The fishing speed run taught me just how pivotal RNG is to most zomboid speed runs. In their Q&A Jobee dismissed seeds as not that important. In the fishing run you have about 1/2 reasonable spawn, 1/10 getting both vhs, 1/3 getting all three books in the first stop, 3/5 getting sufficient supplies in the bait shop. After all those seed related rng rolls, you have the minor RNG of zombie distribution and fish procs that I assume are mostly/completely out of the players control. Of course, you still have to execute well.
I'm not directly arguing that PZ speed runs should be allowed with seeds, just that it is an impactful decision on the way the game is ran. Should a successful speed run require 50+ resets to have a chance at the record once they get optimized? Or should a player be able take the start conditions of a peer and see if they can play it better. I'm grateful its not my decision to make but it certainly matters for the future of the category as a whole.
To be frank, I'm not even sure how to edit the seed. It was never important for casual runs and I enjoy the spice of uncertainty but I don't enjoy resetting for hours after 10m runs that miss VHS loot or what have you.
That is a Herculean task. I appreciate the nod towards endurance which is essential for a good pz player, and difficult to include in a speedrun.
Since this seems like more of a %completion challenge, how would you assign points for skills?
( .25 × (total skill points/350)) or
( .25 × (skills at max/35))
