Ok so I tried messaging the sonic series mods about adding all classic all modern stages timed in IGT to Sonic Generations. and they havent replied. I mean I tried messaging them through twitter and youtube Etc... and nobody replied to my requested categories. At this point Im wandering If anyone has any Ideas on how my category request can be added to Sonic Generations I would be glad to hear It.

I have no clue why the game mods need to ask or get permission from the series mods to add categories to a game. Kinda defeats the purpose of having game mods if every request like that has to be funneled up the chain to series mods.

Sounds like lazy moderation by the game mods or something weird going on with them. If the series mods really really need to have a say, it shouldn't be your job to get an answer out of them, it should be up to the game mods to go to them with your request.

Unfortunately I can't offer any advice other than going back to the Sonic Generations forum and tell them that the series mods aren't responding to you and you need one of the game mods to reach out to them. Hopefully then they will know the best way to contact them and can get the request handled.

I think he means you to ask the moderators that moderate most of the Sonic series (despite being a super mod himself...). This means either Zeupar, DarkspinesSonic, flyingfox, or werster. Try contacting flyingfox through Twitter or Twitch; the others tend to be more difficult to contact directly.

I'm not a global Sonic mod or a mod of Generations specifically (just other 3d sonics), but yeah you need a proper anwser so I popped both this thread and the original thread in the Sonic moderation group as they seemed to have missed it/forgot about it. I also reminded Frokenok that he does in fact have a say in this too lol

As a heads up for the anwser though, this is how the Sonic mods tend to add leaderboards for non-standard categories (i.e. anything that isn't any% / in-game's definition of 100% / reach credits in x story): People are interested in a category -> people actually run the category -> people pitch the category to the mods -> if the category makes enough sense and there's enough interest, it gets added.

The more people running and the higher the quality of the runs, the more likely it'll get leaderboards. Thought process behind this is that we don't want to add empty leaderboards and that we don't want a big mess of several arbitrary categories that have like 1 or 2 poor runs on it just cause some guy wanted a world record. Remember, you can run something without it having a leaderboard, the leaderboard comes into exisiting once there's stuff worth tracking.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind an all Modern stages category added. It would give incentive to people who don't like running the 2D/3D sections of the game (myself included) a reason to pick up the game. However, I'm not sure how viable IGT would be as a timing method honestly, but that could be something that gets worked out later down the line. I for one, and very much for this idea.

I hope It gets added but who knows. As for the categories Im sure it will receive some good runs. I know a few people who run modern and classic anyway! The reason I say IGT is because PC version has faster loading times than both ps3 and 360. But im fine with RTA I suppose.

If there's existing runs and runners it would really help your pitch to name/link those y'know. Do so in the generations forums though, I think this thread is pretty much sorted now.

Good news the categories got added. Sorry for the delay in this, you can thank Cyd for showing this thread to the group.