Hello! I'm new to speedrunning and I've chosen to start with RotD beacuse I'm familiar with the game (I've gotten some decent times and I will be sumbitting runs soon!) Thing is, I have some doubts about whether we should be able to start with a fully modded car or not. Hear me out, Escape% and Hard% clarify on the rules than that is allowed so thats ok. But 100% doesn't and the only run starts with a fully upgraded car.

My point being, wouldn't it make sense that starting from scratch was a requirement for 100% runs? Also, maybe a category just like escape but with a clean car would be really interesting with much more strategy involved. What do you guys think?

Hi, I too am new to speedrunning and was introduced to this game a couple months ago by Jimma. I talked about this with him and we think it would be more challenging to introduce getting the car upgrades as a part of the (at least) 100% runs. It would add complexity to the decisions that are done in the run (Should I kill myself to get an upgrade and try to win back the lost seconds or keep going until I cant, which upgrades should I prioritize in any given moment of the run, etc)

Just to be clear, I'm ok with upgraded cars on most categories, but it really doesn't make sense on 100% since you wouldn't be starting from 0% And that said, it would be fun to have something like CleanEscape% where you start with a vanilla car and do the great escape! Just ideas that I think would improve RotD speedrunning