This thread in a nutshell.

You guys should just be friends and stop taking Classic% so seriously, it's supposed to be a fun category and what's fun in arguing about it? Just run the game however you like why would you run a "fun" category seriously anyway? Just do what you want.

You guys are overthinking this! What makes classic% so good is the classic aspects of it. So I suggest you run in a top down view, no mission skips, if you die you spawn on the other side of the map. At the end of the game you use a random number generator to pick the ending for you because you know, in classic GTA games you couldn't pick an ending yourself so why should you be able to now? Oh and dont forget you have to stay on the roads because you know, you couldn't easily go offroad in classic GTA. I hope people will go back to the old ways of the classic GTA for classic%. Käppa