ValhallaHey niwazeki, thank you for reaching out and voicing your concerns. I totally understand your frustration about the rejection and any confusion around the rule change, especially when there are still runs on the board that appear to break or predate the current rules. I also wanted to say, no worries at all about translation, your points have been clearly communicated.
I wanted to clarify a few things regarding your concerns. As mentioned, your run was rejected due to the current FPS rule, which sets 60 FPS as the minimum. This change was made to level the playing field and specifically reduce the impact of hardware-based advantages. You're right to point out that some top 5 runs don't show FPS or appear to be under the new threshold. Those were accepted either before the rule went into effect or by mistake, which thank you for bringing awareness to those. Also, we're currently discussing how to address legacy runs that are affected by this rule change. We don't plan to retroactively remove historical runs. Many of them were valid at the time they were submitted, and we want to preserve the history of the leaderboard as much as possible.
On the topic of CKF and other mods: the community voted to allow CKF back in 2022 because crouch kicks were being inconsistently affected by hardware differences. CKF was implemented to ensure that the movement tech stays skill-based rather than hardware-dependent. The same principle applies to requiring a minimum FPS—it’s about creating a consistent, fair baseline for competitive runs. As for mods like speed display, they're allowed because they don't affect gameplay itself. They're QoL tools that help runners and mods alike, unlike sub-60 FPS which can affect game physics or mechanics.
Let me know if you have more questions or if there's anything else you'd like clarified, and again, I apologize on this impacting your run. We're working through how to best handle this situation, and we're always open to feedback.
As I've gotten a serious inquiry about this, I'll note for the uninitiated that this was an April Fools' joke and will archive the post.
Hey Dg, you can turn on the in-game timer through settings -> gameplay -> gameplay counters as the rejection message mentions
^ They were meant to be removed, I forgot while I was moderator and since it's under Misc it's an out of sight out of mind thing, NotJohn may not be aware they're there
There already is coop for both full game and ILs, unless you mean Fucking Run! or Contractions?
https://www.speedrun.com/titanmeme_2/Blood_and_Rust added it to the category extensions board
- Try telling that to the rest of speedrun.com and see how that goes
- I'm not allowing submissions with no gameplay onto the board, there's literally nothing to verify with that. Generally when video evidence is required for a speedrun, it means the actual game being ran on video. I'd be a little more sympathetic, not by much, but you state in your submission you didn't record because you were lazy. That's nowhere near a sufficient reason to even contemplate allowing your submission onto the leaderboard. Regardless, you need video evidence of the full game being ran to get onto the leaderboard.
Due to the incorrect time being displayed on the final "Thank you for running" screen, any% runs will instead have to have both of the IL times added together manually. Final screen will still be required in the video.
Regarding IL times themselves, they're sometimes off by a variance of 0.01-0.02s. For the time being we're gonna continue to use the IGT though.
Nope no specific order, just gotta do all time trials, also is this a separate discord from the general Pac-Man Speedrunning one you're talking about? Don't think I saw anything there about all time trials
Just looked at the IL rules and for whatever reason the deletion of that rule didn't register earlier this year, it's fixed now
Hey Dragonxiv, I'm not sure exactly what you mean as this thread was for the removal of a rule rather than the placement of a rule. Your run you deleted is valid evidence-wise after taking a look at it in the audit log too.
Haven't seen if this was posted yet, but I just noticed in a game I moderate that the thread options bar disappears after editing a post in a forum
Just saw your leaderboard moderation request post and realized my message never sent here lol, @OneHitYouQuit that is a requirement yeah and DirtyDekes I'm sure did submit a run with their game request as they have some runs on their youtube, they're just not automatically added to the board upon the board's creation. The submitter would still have to create a category to add the run to which seems never happened. Also patience KaTiON :) soon
You seem to have misunderstood me, I didn't say being active is unrealistic, I said the vetting process would be unrealistic, and again [quote]anyways it's no biggie, stuff like this is what the request leaderboard moderation thread is for[/quote] https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/dueac here's the thread for whoever wants to request, make sure to read the first message as the thread states though before posting
That'd be an unrealistic vetting process for new users/new games considering site staff would have to actively monitor a user (multiplied by however many more are in the same situation) for a bit, but anyways it's no biggie, stuff like this is what the request leaderboard moderation thread is for
Activity on one's profile isn't really a criteria for game requests since there's people that speedrun just one game or want to start speedrunning with one game that may not be on the site yet, the person does have a few runs of the game on their youtube but for whatever reason just never went through with finishing setting up/being present
