OK,

Every category on here is a meme run. Can we talk about an actual end objective we could consider "Beating the game" and make a category?

Even if it's simple like building a town/ taking over an area we have to at least brainstorm.

Why I care is that this game has insanely strange mechanics. Right now we might think we know the main busted tricks/ interactions, but there could be so many more.

Suggestions? I say complete control of the map counts as beating the game to make it wild

Too many of these good ideas take way too long. I did a challenge run recruiting all the unique npcs, another trying to get all of the legendary weapons, and a third trying to get all the tech. All of which too way too long to do in one sitting, although it may be more interesting to see what someone could do in terms of in game time. for example taking over the map in x in game days rather than some amount of RTA time.

How about a run where you defeat all "bosses" (Cat Lon, Tengu, Tinfist, etc)

Just because they take too long doesn't mean they're not worth doing. I'd love to do these categories, and imo it wouldn't be as big of a problem if we were also allowed to take 2 minute breaks or so.

Hey I'm not against adding any category at all. Just tell me that you want it and I'll add it. Anything new that I'm adding I'm trying to do with the in game timer so we can do that and it'd allow you to pause and break (also not doing in game time only adds mere seconds). Just tell me if you want me to add something.

I'm still somewhat limited in my knowledge due to actually getting in the game 2 weeks ago, but in my opinion a category like Leviathan% where you need to kill leviathan as fast as possible, or Meitou% which involves collecting all the meitou weapons (just picking them up, no need to store them in your inventory at all times), or a bounty related speedrun (could possibly be done as a level category per each wanted person, or just as "collect any bounty" in general, or collect all of them - whatever you find better (I will gladly help with that if you need))

The bounty one would be especially fun(at least for me that is), cause i had way too much fun just sneaking up to the people while they're sleeping, and yoinking them from their bed and running to the United Cities police as fast as I could. Really what made me love Kenshi so much.

To clarify, I am not against long runs at all, but speedruns are typically limited to what people would be able to do in one sitting unless you allow for runs to be adjourned. I'm talking about runs that you wouldn't be able to complete in a single day.

Yea I'll go ahead and add all bounties to the list, but I will say I had that one and others available for a long time and no one attempted them. Does that mean I should have necessarily removed them? I'm not sure because I could've just let them sit and it'd of probably increased the chances of someone trying them.

I also think I'm going to start pushing for everything longer than a few minutes to just be recorded with the in-game timing system because I kind of think it was a mistake to just format them all the same. Shorter runs make a lot of sense to use real world time because the death speed runs take 2 seconds, but getting all bounties would take a lot longer and would have a lot of loading time.

Awesome, I'll try to do an All Bounties run when I'll be able to. Have an awesome day everyone

I'm new, so I don't know all the ways yet. I like the All Major Bosses idea mentioned higher in the thread. Particularly if there is overlap - like if killing Bugmaster and killing Tinfist both require the same leveling, then the challenge is really figuring out the best routing to get them both done. Developing this route would benefit from the individual Defeat categories that already exits.

Speaking of which, this is tangentially related. If we could get all or most of the major bosses dialed in individually, a medley / relay submission would be really cool for a GDQ or RPGLimitBreak. That could showcase multiple runners while also giving ample opportunity to banter up the game.

Anyway... I just posted the limited defeat catlon wr :) cheers!