I tried it today and it works perfectly fine - if everyone else is OK with it then I'm fine with just not allowing macros. Keeps things simple.

Hey guys, great work on implementing this, really glad we've got the new categories, I'm definitely going to push on the pX runs just to see what's possible.

Having already done a lot of pX runs, here's my stance regarding macros for changing the players count: I'm inclined to favor them because it's a significant quality of life change that doesn't really detriment the skill factor of the run imo. It's not fun trying to type slash-players-x in the middle of battle, and the in-game up arrow save-text feature is already so close to what a macro would do that I don't see why not just allow them.

Also, for the sorc run at least, changing the players setting is such a miniscule part of the run anyway - the only time I do it is to change it to p1 to get max rune drops from normal countess, that's pretty much it.

There are valid arguments either way - one could argue we're trying to see who's the most skilled player, not the fastest typist, or one could argue that typing slash-players-x mid combat is part of playing this game... but then again they have the up-arrow save-text feature that's already so close to a macro anyway.

Imo: macros are a good quality of life allowance that doesn't detriment the "spirit" of the run so to speak, but, switching the players count is a fairly miniscule part of the overall run anyway (with my strats at least) that I don't really care if we disallow them, it wouldn't be a big deal really.

ps: I've got links for my pX strats, skillbuilds, and macros I use on my twitch page if anyone is interested.

I don't see the problem with runs taking up to a week to get verified. It's just not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, and there's only so much we can reasonably expect from mods who are volunteers. I'm just happy a maintained hub like this exists at all. And I'd much rather deal with a wait than a leaderboard potentially getting littered with erroneous and/or fake submissions.

I'd also like to take a moment and say that, while no community is ever immune from toxicity, the d2 speedrunning and twitch community has been very welcoming, positive, and awesome overall, for me at least.

I've actually run pX pretty extensively at this point so I thought I'd chime in here - it's definitely become my favorite category, for a few reasons:

• it's the legitimately fastest way to beat the game, and we are speedrunning after all.

• hell runs can be significantly shorter, which might in turn inspire more people to run them and more competition.

• there's much less exp rng which honestly can take a toll on p1 runs, imo at least.

I created pastebins which detail my strats (links on my twitch profile) in the hopes that others would learn the category and run it, but no one else is afaik. I'd very much like for pX and other alternative categories to have competition and maybe a leaderboard here, but... I agree with @arcticwolfhowls in that it doesn't make sense to add superfluous categories if they're going to get few or no submissions.