Absolutely in favour of splitting the categories. This is what I wrote in the previous thread, and it still stands.

"The idea that since it's available to everyone means that the non-DLC category should be obsolete shows a total disregard to the content of the runs themselves. The DLC included run is a heavy mathematics-based run that relies mostly on good menuing, good mental monitoring of how much health the monster has, and very careful prep. The non-DLC run has a much heavier focus on player skill as opposed to using the items from the DLC packs to nuke the daylights out of helpless AI for 3 hours straight."

For timer manipulation, absolutely should not be allowed.

I personally can't speak for the other points, however I would like to talk about the category split.

The idea that since it's available to everyone means that the non-DLC category should be obsolete shows a total disregard to the content of the runs themselves. The DLC included run is a heavy mathematics-based run that relies mostly on good menuing, good mental monitoring of how much health the monster has, and very careful prep. The non-DLC run has a much heavier focus on player skill as opposed to using the items from the DLC packs to nuke the daylights out of helpless AI for 3 hours straight.

This isn't to say one run is needs more emphasis than the other, this is to say they're different - and that people can have fun in one, and no fun in another. If there continues to be no split, people like myself would be forced to share a leaderboard with people that essentially are playing a totally different game, and that would drive people away (including myself). It's in the same vein that people enjoy both the 1 star and 70 star categories of SM64, or glitched and glitchless runs of Pokemon games.

Please don't tell us that "limitations are arbitrary" when you're enforcing them. If you really take offence to people saying that the majority of mods don't have knowledge of the game, then you're not helping yourself by doing this.

And if you're done with sr.c as a whole, then why are you still in a position of power instead of handing it over to people who care?

I feel now is a good time to present my opinion on this as well, since I was planning on making a post similar to this.

It has become increasingly clear recently that by the looks of things, only one of your mods cares. When the discussion was first brought up for example about dividing Any% into DLC and No DLC, it was immediately shot down with no real time for discussion. When it was suggested again, only one of the board's mods actively went to talk to runners of the category to ask for their opinion instead of just going with the majority. The fact that only one person went out to get more information and the remaining mods dismissed the issue again shows a clear disregard for what their role actually is here, and I have personally come to heavily respect the mod in question - for a lack of a better way of putting it, from what I understand I personally wouldn't be able to put up with the bullshit that they do.

Many people have started coming back to this game. Recently greengatea has started running this game again, and many people in my own stream and community have shown an interest in running not only individual quests, but also full game speedruns. A major thing that will get in the way of potential growth is the board being run by people who seemingly only care about being a moderator for the sake of moderating, and I believe this needs to change.

At the same time however, I don't want to simply point fingers and throw a fit without doing anything myself. If there's anything that myself of any of the other runners of any category can do to help out, please let us know and PLEASE start to communicate better with the people who run this game.

Please stop hurting the community I'm starting to love, and start to change.