For this category we made the following changes a while back to make the run both reproducible and more comparable between runners. For some reason the rules reverted so I will fix them again but I wanted to make a post here just in case this happens again:

Rules for Level 1-10:

• No use of guilds or outside help, mail, cartel market or collections.
• No purchasing of Legacy Upgrades/Buffs during the run.
• No use of seasonal/special in-game events (ie. Double exp)
• Timer starts once space bar is pressed in the first cut scene. Timer ends once you reach level 10.

Rules Clarifications: -Outside help is considered character-> character transfer of items, goods or assistance. If a random person attacks a mob that you aggro'd first, that is fine. However, coordinated efforts are not allowed. -The use of mail, cartel markets and collections is banned to stop macro-transactions in order to enhance the speedrun unreasonably. The idea is that you don't have to spend millions of credits and/or cartel coins (or hours) preparing for every single run. -The purchase of legacy buffs/upgrades during the run is banned in order to stop macro transactions for that as well. The idea is that you have access to global and account unlocked buffs/abilities, but once again do not need to spend millions of credits and/or cartel coins (or hours) preparing for every single run. -No guilds, groups or double exp events is self explanatory. The boosted exp is not coolio.

When I wrote the rules initially the outside help clause, was meant to prohibit co-op play not item redemption from SWTOR. It was my intention to allow mail so legacy items could be redeemed from SWTOR past events, (redeem a friend speeder etc.), but only for the Legacy allowed runs. I think it would be better to prohibit the redemption of credits from mail instead. What do you think?

I don't think anyone should be able to get anything extra that they don't start with on the run; items have the same inclination towards requiring transactions during the run, which I'm not a fan of. Although I do agree it's probably the best thinking about it more, because legacy perks and the extra buffs all just come down to extra farming in the end. So why bother restricting them; and legacy items would just be a permanent thing, unlock them once and boom.

What I DON'T understand is how you can mail something to a character you have not made yet, or can you send mail to screen names that havent been made yet?

I don't know, I would feel a lot better if we made a "legacy restricted" category as well then, and then have the 1-10 doors open to mail, legacy purchases, whatever that allows all of these transactions during the run. Because it looked like there were people interested in doing that?

like we could make 1-10 a category, then have 3 sub categories; LegacyLess (shows up first), Legacy Restricted and Legacy Allowed

I just have no desire to do runs that require hours of farming prior to each attempt or to shift things from other characters to the one I am starting the run with.

Does that seem like the best way to make people happy? Just having another category where legacy is allowed but restricted? I can take care of setting it all up (and you can revert the rules back for the Leveling 1-10)

I would be all for having the three categories like you said, it opens up more creative runs for those who have already farmed for years and want something to do, without being unfair to newer runners.

Btw, there's a way to essentially make a character, but send mail from another character before actually playing as the new character, keeping the play time at zero. There's always the time played check you could do with chat commands to see how long a specific character has been played/logged in as, if you wanted to time things that way, our include it as an extra variable.

Okay I'm just going to update the leaderboard with the suggestions; I'll make a new category that falls under Legacy Allowed and fix the rules for that. Visa if you want to submit after I make that the original run you wanted to submit I'll approve it asap!!