Suggestion to change the rules
5 years ago
New Hampshire, USA

Here's my feedback.

I would contact the other moderators but they haven't been active in several months by now. Emerald in particular removed all of this social media accounts so it's hard to reach out to him, and hoodie is generally not online typically. The only other two or three active members of the community (which have been for at least a year) don't have any issues with this new rulechange. We don't need to keep adding different subcategories for different little discoveries. It is necessary to leave out the glitch in 100% because using the glitch in runs would make the run feel as if it weren't being completed in the 100% spirit. Any% means to beat the game in the fastest way possible, I don't see the issue on keeping the glitch permitted in any%.

Re: The names of the categories The objective is to bring the passengers to their stops. 100% forbids skipping the passengers, while any% allows avoiding picking up passengers. The first speedruns of this game did not skip red lights, so due to tradition is has always (and will always) stick to 100%.

"This new trick is ruining existing categories." - From someone who hasn't submitted a run of this game, this is false. This happens a lot in speedruns. Something new is found, and is added to an existing category. Again it is not necessary to keep adding categories for every little detail in a speedrun. I speedrun a lot of games, not one of those games do I see the moderation team consult regular community members about leaderboard changes, it's always in the moderators' discussion.

I hope this is a more clear answer to your questions spanning 2 years.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Hungary

What about the red lights?

New Hampshire, USA

As I mentioned in my post above yours, I will quote it here.

"The first speedruns of this game did not skip red lights, so due to tradition is has always (and will always) stick to 100%."

Any% was primarily made because people wanted red lights to be skipped, so it was added and it also allowed passengers to be skipped.

Hungary

Sounds good.

Hungary

Also, I have a suggestion for the cover art here on this page. There are plenty of different cover arts out there that has been used for the game (as a matter of fact, even my hardcopy looks different than what I'm about to suggest cause it's a later release from a different publisher or something), but the most common is this one I think:

https://i.imgur.com/NwUyVgp.jpg

Could it be changed to this one? I think this one is the most official, official websites (SCS, Wikipedia) and Steam is using this one. I think it's much simpler looking (in a better way) and looks more pleasing.

I also think this is the cover art that most people know, and what the official release used.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
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