Idk what you'd call it, but I think this would be an interesting category because it gets rid of tons of monotonous grinding and adds an interesting element to the run, even if the RNG is horrible. Plus it's a feature of the game that can be used to achieve a goal faster, so it's basically a "true 100%" category
Actually this category sounds like it'd be prety close to AUM. I would prefer:
Any 999 moons, LBW allowed. Start the firework as fast as possible.
See the problem with this is that a Big Streamer has a massive advantage over a smaller one or someone not streaming at all, as they can get their viewers to grind coins for them, essentially.
We could ban entering custom codes. That would get rid of the problem eeveetube said
I would prefer keeping this as a shorter category, by changing it into "Any 999 moons LBW", with the goal to spin cappy on top of the tophat in Mushroom as soon as possible. Roughly 870 duplicate moons would likely be part of the run.
To take care of what Eevee said, we should also:
- Ban entering custom codes and
- Ban picking any balloons from friends (optimally, not adding any friends)
- Only allow Seek It
After the run ends get the runner to go to the home menu, which lets you see what account is currently running SMO. Then they open the friends menu for that account and prove it is empty. This verifies no balloons from friends.
I think saying "Any 999 Moons, LBW" is actually a cool idea, and could be an interesting routing challenge, what moons are faster than coin grinding and worthwhile to get? Do you do 124 and grind LBW as fast as possible or Grab more moons than that and do less coin grinding. Just a thought.
Also, ban Hide It. Hide It gives tons of coins when your viewers are doing it for you. Not adding friends wouldn't fix this problem because people could and would still find it in the random list and start feeding money.
Just ban hide it, and the "big streamer issue" would be resolved because they would get no coins for free
If we just ban Hide It they could still get viewers to but balloons super close to the start.
Don't bring back a discussion that ended over a year ago please.
