Is it possible to make milliseconds a two-digit number?
3 years ago
Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
3 years ago

We've allowed limited use of milliseconds in submissions on http://www.speedrun.com/hue/ . Two issues arise, one is runners filling in milliseconds when they shouldn't, and I know there's no getting around that except manually.

But the other, I wonder if there's an easier way than me having to fix it every time every time every time every time. LiveSplit displays milliseconds as a two-digit number, but for whatever reason, speedrun.com makes it a three-digit number. So if someone, on an eligible run, gets a a time of 45:15.30, that's exactly what they'll put into each box. 45, 15, and 30. Which gives a reported time of 45:15.030 and makes me GROAN audibly.

I've added a note to the game rules about this but no one ever reads those. Is there any way that I can make milliseconds a two-digit number on this board?

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Israel

There are several posts in the feedback thread, requesting the option to put and display centiseconds instead of milliseconds. Right now there is no way to force centiseconds sadly (I got lot of "0xx" time submissions as well).

By the way (unrelated to the two digits issue); I don't really see why you allow milliseconds at all (at least in the way that you did), because for runners who use the autosplitter it's only optional, and any runners who don't use the autosplitter can choose to not submit them (via your rules). Think about this very rare edge case: One runner gets a WR of 41:00.500 and post time with milliseconds, second runner gets a PB of 41:00.900 but chooses to omit the milliseconds, but now is considered as a new WR with 41:00.000.

Milliseconds can always be inferred by counting the frames between the start and end condition in any video editing software (which makes an extra work for the runner/verifier, I admit). I think that a leaderboard should have all milliseconds or no milliseconds, or in certain cases milliseconds only from a certain time threshold.

Personally I don't like milliseconds submissions at all, unless the game is very short or there is an in-game timer involved.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
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Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
3 years ago

That's how I treat it, that the autosplitter is an in-game timer.

Your impossibly rare example would incite additional scrutiny. The leaderboard rules are not ironclad commandments.